Smacking Banned in Scotland

This all depends on the reason why a smack is needed. If a child was to hit me a smack back it would have.

I must admit that I also thought it was already banned. I think there are better ways to discipline children, so I support this.

I was never smacked as a child, my mum had the look, that was enough to tell me I had done something I shouldn't have.

I live in Scotland, I have never hit my son and I don't intend to. There are ways to discipline children without violence.

In my family, smacking is how we were disciplined but it also ensured that we rarely did anything to upset our parents. Looking back, it definitely caused a lot more damage than it solved and when I found myself doing it to my little sister, that was a wake-up call. Its definitely not something I would ever revisit.

Mum never hit us - she left it to Dad when he came home or she locked us under the stairs!

Smacking should be banned you wouldn't allow another human to hit your child and possible cause a mark or permenant damage so why would you want to? Maybe a tap on the hand or butt.

I am completely against smacking, I would never smack a child

I thought it was also banned, and the ban had been in place for a number of years. Can’t say I favoured a ban, but with how things are these days, if you can’t even say certain things or use certain tones, smacks were bound to be made an offence

I've never smacked my child only has to look at her lol but my mum use to hit me when I was younger and to b honest didn't do me any harm and I never got into trouble

I thought it had been banned for 20 years at least!

I thought smacking was banned in both England and Scotland years ago.

all my parents needed lol

i also thought it was already banned. to be honest i dont think smacking is needed, also what are we teaching our kids by smacking?

We teach them not to hit at school or in a play ground, yet teach them its ok to puts hands on them. doesnt make sense to me.

If I had a child I would never smack them