Why all this nonsense about not smacking your children? As long as they are not hit round the head and physically abused, a clout round the back of the legs does a world of good.
I had five children and very rarely did they need a smack, but if they did I gave it to them and it always worked wonders.
Children have to learn to respect their parents and elders. Right now they do neither - most of them don't even say thank you if given a present.
To say thanks is just common decency - but then decent behaviour has gone out of the window, primarily because there is so little home life any more.
-J Adams, Brighton
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