Supermarket Shocker

we got smacked on the bottom only with a hand and only if we were relly naughty and i remeber every smack i got and i am tottaly normal

I don't remember every smack I got....i do remember the wooden spoon breaking on my bum though. differnet time though., I mean, i got smacked ALL the time when i was little, but i don't think it did me any harm in particular. i don't believe in smacking my boys, mainly because most of the time they misbehave, it's hitting each other, or me (i have some wicked nasty bruises from them) and it seems hypocritical to say "don;t hit" - whack. For us, time out works really well. Smacking Jake - he laughs and thinks its a game. the only child I know who when he bit my mother, she bit him back and he LAUGHED!

But i think there is a major differnece between smacking and what Clare saw.

I must admit I got smacked when I was younger and I dont think it made me a bad person or affected me in any majot way but I totally dont agree with smacking like that...

These days Zaara has learned to scratch if she gets mad and after telling her NO and she still does it...I smack her hand lightly....she looks at me and just goes on playing......untill the next day at kindy....arrrggg
But I promised myself that no matter what I will never hit my kids in a manner that they remember it for the rest of their life...I remember all of my major smacks!!