#41

Really polite and quiet. always described as a lovely boy but also really stubborn when it came to needing to eat sweets or own pranks (stink bombs, fake poos, itching powder etc)

#42

no, i was great

still am tbf

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#43

I was polite and well-behaved but a total prick at the same time. I was also scared of everything and incredibly panicky/anxious which was incredibly annoying. Nothing has really changed.

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#44

Early on i think I was ok but then the culmination of my parents being dicks, my half brother moving out when I was very small so sort of only-childing me, and never being allowed to have friends over to play with led to me being very irritating

#45

Did anyone get smacked as a kid? Did it help you be less annoying or more annoying if so, and do you think it would have been helpful if not?

  • Was smacked as a kid and it helped my behaviour improve
  • Wasnt smacked as a kid and it didn’t help my behaviour improve
  • Wasn’t smacked as a kid and this was helpful for my behaviour
  • Wasn’t smacked as a kid but it would have been helpful for my behaviour
  • I am for physical discipline (within restraint always explained etc)
  • I am against physical discipline

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#46

I’ve voted but the option doesn’t say what I thought it did. I was smacked, and it didn’t improve my behaviour. It did give me a lasting memory of being smacked, and I actually don’t have any nice memories of my mum as they’ve all been replaced by her whacking my thighs and she didn’t even do it that much.

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#47

This is quite a sensitive topic I think, definitely had english friends who thought that those of us who were not english and had cultures where filial piety is highly regarded a smack off your mum were raised in barbaric households, and similarly remember seeing friends be really rude to their parents and just getting away with it and being really shocked at the dynamic. My dad didn’t ever hit but my mum did and it was never from a place of abuse or anything like that and it helped keep us in line,

#48

Oops didnt mean that as a reply scout, and the 2nd option is the one which I meant was smacked but it didnt help my bad :laughing:

#49

Was smacked with a slipper once for saying the word bugger (didn’t even know it was a swear word). It was enough to make me not do it again so…

I think it can have a role in child discipline as long as it is used very very sparingly and not hard enough to hurt the child

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#50

Still somehow against physical discipline despite how annoying you all were as children.

#51

How can we say its not OK to hit adults but it’s OK to hit children?

Totally wrong.
My mum once smacked my sister on the leg with a hairbrush because she’d been being mean to me, I then cried because I felt really bad that my sister had got into trouble ‘because of me’.

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#52

Because there’s a big difference between hitting someone with the intent of causing them physical harm and using restrained physical methods of discipline to try and correct bad behaviour.

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#53

Violence is wrong… But it’s fine to hit children whose brains haven’t developed yet. Nope.

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#54

I don’t think anyone here wants to punch a child.

#55

Being smacked hurts and instils fear!

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#56

speak for yourself

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#57

I meant except me.

#58

And yet I enjoy it so much as an adult??

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#59

Yeah but that’s different, isn’t it :wink:

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#60

I’m not saying it doesn’t, but my point is there’s a big difference between violence between/towards adults and (most) smacking.