Smacking is never out of the headlines and recently Coronation Street’s controversial smacking storyline sparked up the hot debate over whether smacking really works. Today we are joined by parenting guru Sue Atkins to launch a new strand called Parenting Power with a discussion on discipline. Sue will be giving tips on how […]
Today I am delighted to have Vivien Sabel as my guest blogger putting forward her opinion on smacking or spanking as my USA parents call it ! “Smacking or spanking is an act of aggression and in some cases violence against a child. In my opinion it has no demonstrative qualities and it has […]
I met Duncan Grant an Ambassador for the NSPCC last night and we were talking about the Full Stop Campaign so I read with interest today an article in The Daily Telegraph about how smacking children reduces their emotional intelligence and makes their behaviour even worse, claims a new study. Here is an article I wrote awhile back […]
