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Re: Banning smacking in public places

I so agree, Margaret. I see, every day, young mothers on the streets of Warrington with their unruly children running around and causing havoc. What usually happens is that the mothers start to scream - "TIFFANY (or Tyler or whatever), GET 'ERE." Often, when the instruction is ignored, it's followed by, "I SAID F***ING GET 'ERE, NOW". I even heard a woman yelling at a very small child, last week, that he was "a little b*st*rd". Well, I guess only she knew the truth of that.

To me, that's real child abuse. It's also, in my opinion, as violent as smacking. It breeds children who regard abusive language as the norm and it doesn't deter physical violence from those children as they grow up because they are soon immune to sensitivity of any kind.

Re: Banning smacking in public places

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 412078)

I have a small atomiser spray of plain old tap water that I keep in my handbag.......the tiny terror thinks it is a magic spray....and that it makes naughty boys disappear until they can behave in public....so far i have never had to use it.....I only need to mention it and he stops what he is doing and behaves.

works on my cat too ...