To find it weird that smacking kids is still normal?

The word smack is not a euphemism. It's a physical act, could also be known as hitting. You're really not making any kind of a point here.

You spoke in favour of a ‘smack’, smacking is a euphemistic term for hitting. I just wonder if you’d have the guts to express your view as ‘I believe in hitting children’ which is what you’re basically saying.

It's shocking that it's still legal to hit a child, whereas adults are protected.

Dh dad used to hit him with a belt and make him sleep on the floor in the 80’s, I don’t think that was the normality though.
I was born in the 90’s and definitely had a few smacks growing up, it definitely didn’t do me any long term harm but saying that I’d never smack my son

It’s illegal in Scotland so I’d probably get arrested. Not that I’ve ever hit them. Older generation still think they should be smacked.

have you ever been on an American forum? I’m in a twin group that has American parents and Jeezo. Some of these kids get beat. And all the comments agree with it. It’s awful.

There are still plenty of people who still smack their children, just a little tap or smacked bottom, I've had people tell me to smack my ND child when they've been having a meltdown. It's just done in private these days.

I abhor violence and I am not generally a judgey mum but I definitely do judge people who smack children. It did me immeasurable harm as a child and I only remember being smacked once but it was done out of anger and frustration, i was diagnosed ND as an adult and looking back, I was an annoyance to my parents who got frustrated with me. It's caused years of anxiety and stress thinking why I'm not good enough.

Yeah, me too. I just want to forgive and forget, but it’s stayed with me for 45 years and I just can’t seem to block it out of my mind.

I work in a school and it’s way more prevalent than I’d have imagined. And my boyfriend works for children’s services so sadly we see how common it actually still is now. I think a lot of people think it isn’t happening any more just because it’s probably not information these smacking parents would volunteer regularly to their friends.

There's limited protection within law in England for children being asked to only speak in iambic pentameter too - is that normal?

You seem to be conflating "legal" with "normal". They aren't the same thing. Things can be legal and not at all normal.

Why do you think smacking is normal? Normal means "standard; usual, typical, or expected".

I think it's weird that some people think screen time for their young children is normal, it probably does more damage than smacking ever could. I think we'll look back and judge that even more harshly

If I went to social services and said someone was singing Happy Birthday with their child on the hour every hour between 8am and 6pm every Sunday then they wouldn't intervene on that either. That doesn't mean it's normal. Social services can't, don't and won't intervene on a whole host of things. That's not the definition of "normal".

Only time imo its ever ok to smack a child, is if you need to react quickly and smack their hand away from danger (had a small one recently try and put her fingers in plug socket)

Never ever should it be a punishment or something you do becuase youre angry

Yes, I distinctly remember the shame after being smacked when I was older than this. I imagine about nine. I wish I didn’t remember tbh as I do think less of my relative - but the reason is not so much for doing it but because of how it made me feel and how it’s stayed with me.

We don't smack but by gosh our two dc absolutely kill each other. kicking, slapping, fighting all the time. It doesn't seem to do them much harm though 😅

I don’t think it’s normal - far from it.

Maybe in low socio-economic areas, it might still be a thing to hit your child.

I hope it’s illegal soon.

It’s illegal in my part of the UK so pretty shocking and certainly not disregarded.

I live in Scotland where thankfully smacking is illegal. There are so many ways to parent your children and install good behaviour without smacking. Hitting an adult is not seen as acceptable and I can't see any argument why hitting a child can be seen as acceptable.

I was never smacked growing up, it was something my parents never agreed with. Me and my siblings have grown up well mannered, respectable and we'll behaved.

My DH is Singaporean and still bears a scar on his wrist where he was caned as a 7 year old child by a teacher (also a Catholic brother) at his school