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Sue Bradford from green party introduced the anti-smacking law. I believe that it was a good idea for Sue Bradford to bring into law that smacking your children should be illegal. I think that smacking your children as a source of discipline is cruel and can be quite scary or frightening for the child being smacked and sometimes they don’t even know what there doing wrong. I think that smacking is wrong and parents should too because the child doesn’t learn that it is wrong in years to come, they will just be more eager to do it when parents aren’t around. These are the sorts of reasons why I think that smacking should be banned.
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Firstly I think that it is wrong to hurt your child because you don’t do it to other children, and what is the difference between smacking your own child and smacking somebody else’s. Also I believe that smacking your children and not letting them even know what it is like just makes there a craving to do it higher. So I think that you should let them try it first and see if they keep doing it then you should punish them until they stop unless it’s something dangerous. If it is dangerous then tell the child instead of basically teasing it or hurting them with a hit on the hand.

Also I think that the anti-smacking law should be there because what does it achieve other then making your child hurt and sad it won’t stop them because they are still smart enough to know that they won’t get smacked if you aren’t around to smack them, so they will be more likely to do it at school or when your not looking or when there out of your sight.

So these are the reason why I think that children will never learn what’s bad and stop unless you let them try what you don’t want them to do first and then they might not even like it and then there would be know point in smacking or hitting them anyway.

Also another reason why I think that adults shouldn’t be allowed to smack or hit there child as a source of discipline. I still also think that it is hardly fit for a law, and shouldn’t be so parents should be able to parent how ever they want. So I thing that a smack is okay but only if it is once in a while to help keep your child behaving but if it’s all the time and not even letting them try it then I think that that’s bad parenting and you should maybe get just a $50 fine at most.

So this comes to the conclusion that smacking shouldn’t have a fine but no parents should have it as their good parenting techniques because it is hurtful.