Is it OK to smack someone else's kids if they misbehave?

[SuperSmartMum]

I realise there'll be some people on here who probably don't agree with smacking other people's kids but what if they are in your care and are misbehaving or being cheeky? Do you think it's OK then to just give them a smack on the bum or the hand or do you think you should wait until their parents arrive so that they can smack them?

Op didn't stick around for long!!

"Smacking didnt do me any harm" Hmmm-maybe you should re-read your original post. You ask whether its ok to smack someone elses dc or wait for their parents to smack them?
There is a BIG assumption there that the parents of said dc use smacking as a form of discipline, and would you expect said parents to carry out smacking infront of you, since said dc misbehaved with you?
NO it is NOT acceptable to smack someone elses dc-perhaps you should ask the Police for their opinion on this. You could ask said dc to change their behaviour, or you will need to speak to their parents.
I am not proud, but do resort to smack on the hand occasionally, but would NEVER smack someone elses dc or agree to let another parent smack my dc.
Do the parents of yoyr dcs friends know you hold this view? If not, perhaps you should inform them, and see if many dc still come to your house for play-dates.
Bizzare....

on a thread like this - why do posters have to pile on? And be oh so clever with your own posts? why not just leave it?

i never get threads like this

You smack your little celebs? Probably give them some skittles too after.

Is it ok for MNetters to smack idiotic OPs who spout crap?

just joined MN and I am already loving it...this thread is hilarious.

dont even think its funny, why would you put that on a post, i woudnt leave my child with you

I've never smacked someone else's child but I have grabbed next door's six year old and marched him out of my garden when I found him stoning my collie who was in her pen.

I think that's about as far as I'd go.

No never, not under are circumstances. I would be livid if anyone laid a finger on DS regardless of what he had done. You would be treading on very very dangerous ground.

are any, sorry.

Matbe Ben is thinking it's funny becasue we are all so against it? And we have savaged challenged the OP...

How many more threads like this before the election i wonder.

on the OP

SuperSmartMum - rest assured it is far smarter to ask these questions than to overreact in the way some of your responders have. Of course verbal reasoning is preferable, but for very little kids it doesn't work. It also doesn't work for kids whose parents don't follow up on threatened punishments. I occasionally smacked my daughter before she was 2, and never had to afterwards. She has grown into a kind compassionate young adult. I once smacked someone else's child who was behaving outrageously at my daughter's birthday party. He stopped behaving badly. I don't believe in anything that encourages a more violent society, but I honestly don't believe that disciplining kids in a fair and proportionate way does that.

no never and if you did be pretend to get a policeman at your door for assult!