Every year 80 children die in the United Kingdom due to abuse. When you slap your children are you contributing to violent attacks on children? Children's rights campaigners say the UK's laws, dating back to 1860, are outdated and allowing parents to smack them helps people defend violence against children. The law allows for “reasonable punishment” of children. What is “reasonable”? Is it reasonable to hit your child and leave a mark? The law dictates that if we give a slap we cannot leave a mark. As a mother myself, I do not physically punish my children, however this is the only form of punishment my mother has chosen to use. This led me to not be afraid of missing trips or getting grounded, only to fear going home. I think hands-on parenting means you don't have to be aggressive, you just have to be in control. Furthermore, it is now against the law for a teacher to hit their own pupils, but in most cases this does not affect their ability to maintain order in the classroom. room. Before 1988, teachers were allowed to slap, punish, and use various forms of physical punishment in the name of discipline. After the law was changed, teachers now use less aggressive forms of discipline, without losing respect or control. Using timeouts and detentions is a good way to deter children from destructive and negative behaviors. This, along with an explanation of why they are having trouble, tells the child what they have done and time to think about it. However, with 20 years behind us, with the law saying that you can only beat your own child and not leave a child Mark, why do 60% of parents still beat children under the pretext of educating them? This has become a controversial form of punishment, with many aspects such as class, culture and age dividing people… at the heart of the paper… these children, no matter whether we ban it or not. During the survey, 71% of us said they would like a clear definition in the law, not a total ban. I agree, the best way forward must be to re-educate all of us, teaching us how to model our children's behavior without violence. So instead of campaigning for a total ban on smacking which would be impossible to enforce, turning thousands of us into crime and solving nothing, let's campaign for better education for parents. This job has no formal training, so if we forget the fact that we seem to think we should just know how to cope and remember, children live what they learn. As the most important figure in your child's life, praise, train and nurture him, hoping that he will follow your example and learn self-control, passing on this wisdom and reducing the harm done to children in generations to come.