poweramiga2002 wrote:
I have a 7yr 8yr and a 6 month baby
my 7 and 8 yr olds have both given me the rules on hitting as they were told by there teachers at school
they use it against me all the time they even threaten to say ive hit them
if i dont do what they want me to do cause they have been told the police will take me away
so what in the hell do i do to punish them ? i send them to there rooms they refuse i cant smack them
if i lock them in there room its against the law im off to jail
the juvenile crime rate is so high here and its because as parents we have no rights any more
we might as well just hand them all loaded guns as their born and just let them go for it
when i was growing up if i did anything wrong i got the belt and i always thought twice about misbehaving
Sadly this kind of thing is becoming an epidemic in Australia, schools seem to focus more on teaching children their rights than theaching the three "R's". However, this is not the case for all schools, if I were you, I would consider changing their school or consider boarding school.
When I was a child I tried to scare my parent with that kind of talk after coping a whack, the one that followed set me straight. Besides, it isn't illegal for you to smack a child on the backside, it is however illegal for you to beat them around the head several times. Besides, if all your kids can think about is sending you to jail at the first indication they are going to cop a whack, then perhaps you need to take a serious look at the relationship that exists between you and your children.
