Do the grandparents physically punish your DC?

[Flossam]

Out of interest? regardless of whether you do or don't.

No way. We don't either.

No, and if I found out they had, I'd physically punish them.

no, I'd have they're hide if they did, but they wouldn't anyway. My mum firmly believes in the right to smack, but just as firmly believes that you never ever raise a hand to someone else's child.

their hide. duh.

No they don't. They will tell them off verbally if that have done something wrong which I don't have a problem with at all.

Although alongside my sibblings I was spanked as a child my parents wouldn't dream of spanking their grandchildren. They are alarmed whenever I discipline my dd in front of them and look at me as if I should be reported to the NSPCC. I have never physically disciplined my dd as I feel that there has been no need for it.

No although they do with SIL's kids. I'd kill em if they even thought about it!

no in fact dm is to too soft on them.

They don't disipline my brothers kids as they know that my db and sil don't believe in smacking, I however have told them that they are free to smack my DS when he is old enough should he need to be disiplined in this way as I fully believe in it.

No. We don't either.

Had a major bust-up with DH's family over this a few years a go and it's still a raw area if the children are playing up in their company.

no
never

though i got smacked loads when i was little.

no not at all.
and dmil tells a story about how fil punched his dad for smacking my dh when he was a babe.
and my mum will tell them off but wouldn't smack them.she knows i'd go mad!

I once overheard my dad saying to ds that if he continued to hit him, he (my dad) would hit him back and his hit would hurt.

I sent both of them to their rooms.

No. We don't physically punish our kids so if my parents did I would be livid!

MIL smacked ds last time we stayed there. Dh and I weren't in the room, but heard the contact of hand on bare bottom (he was bouncing naked on a bed at the time). Not a smackable offence in my book, and definitely not without plenty of warning. MIL flatly denied that she had smacked him. We left the following morning.

Depends how bad they are and how old they are. If you have an 8yo for example, and he is hitting his grandmother very hard in a tantrum, and she loses it and smacks him, then I can understand that. So long as they told me about it. Some kids tbh are demon children that get no punishment from their parents, physical or otherwise, and they run riot. I've been tempted to scuff my nieces and nephews once or twice.

Are you OK Flossam?

The answer's no here too - and if they did...I'd not be responsible for my own actions.

another no - no way! We don't and both sets of grandparents wouldn't either.

Absolutely not.

NO, I don't mind them telling them off (in fact I wish my MIL would she lets them get away with murder), but I would be livid if they hit them.