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The anti-smacking bill has been designed to stop parents from educating their children with violence. I am a parent to an awesome 3 year old to begin with i used a smack as a telling off but after i got used to parenting and learned to communcate better with my son (as he did me), i found that smacking is absolutely unessacary as i could simply just talk to him.

I remember an outing where my father smacked my son for climbing up on a table and showing off. I thought if a child is regularly punished for misbehaving by smacking wouldnt they start to assiocate violence with some strange things in their adult lives. How could someone rationalize that the consequence of standing on a table would result in being hit?

Of there are extemptions where a smack could be used in context with the misbehaviour.

The bigger picture is that current level of violence in our society needs to be much less as we continue fight wars againist each other and entertain ourselves with violent media its seems to be an oppsession of the human race.

If we continue to repeat the mistakes of our ancestors we will not continue to evolve as a society or a species, but law and technology will not save us we must change our attitude towards issues like violence (and money and power to name a few others).