By: Docpet

Docpet
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:39:20 +0000

Surely the point is that smacking is effective up to the age when reason can be applied. If smacking is done in an appropriate way then as the child grows up the threat of a smack should then be sufficient for the ‘reflecting on behaviour’,to apply.

I never liked getting a smack, so the threat of one was enough to correct my behaviour and as I got older the consequences of bad behaviour changed. A smack wouldn’t work but the threat to a four/five/six/etc (delete as appropriate) of not being allowed to watch TV was then highly effective.