Good / Bad parenting.

[ronnie21]

I got slapped many a time and did me no harm.

Just the threat of giving Jen a slap has been enough of a deterrent so far

There is a strong rumour about Fred that you still enjoyed a bit of a slapping - especially on a Friday/Saturday night!!

[flammableBen]

I'm just winding you up because you're clearly just posting so people would say that you did the right thing. I didn't want to reward this sort of attention seeking behaviour

Your'e a little wide of the mark Ben. Of course I want to hear that I am right, but I also want to be the best father that I can be and am therefore open to suggestions.

Not only that the incident in the shop wound me up somewhat and so I am perhaps venting some fustration here,.

Suggestions eh. Instead of smacking her you should have bought the sweets she likes and then eaten them in front of her. Pure evilness.

[Reg Smeeton]

I got slapped many a time and did me no harm.

Just the threat of giving Jen a slap has been enough of a deterrent so far

There is a strong rumour about Fred that you still enjoyed a bit of a slapping - especially on a Friday/Saturday night!!

 You sure that shouldn't be slappers

[BANGKOK RED]

I'm just winding you up because you're clearly just posting so people would say that you did the right thing. I didn't want to reward this sort of attention seeking behaviour

Your'e a little wide of the mark Ben. Of course I want to hear that I am right, but I also want to be the best father that I can be and am therefore open to suggestions.

Not only that the incident in the shop wound me up somewhat and so I am perhaps venting some fustration here,.

Suggestions eh. Instead of smacking her you should have bought the sweets she likes and then eaten them in front of her. Pure evilness.

Now there's a thought.  :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:

[flammableBen]

Have a Bangkok Flower Face!

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/flowerface.gif

[strooood]

i think it's alright to an extent.
i got a few slaps as a kid, did the job i spose.

[reeves4england]

I think you did right BR. I know people will have differing opinions about smacking children but you were definitely right not to give in and buy them, just leads to kids being spolit brats. I've heard stories of incredibly spoilt children where I found it incredibly difficult to believe how inconsiderate and self-centred some children become.

[flammableBen]

All children should be raised by the state. The cost could be offset by scrapping the pension with a retirement=euthanasia policy. All money in private pensions should also be seized by the state and put in to robotic and AI research with the goal of building an android slave work force so we could all live like kings; eventually scrapping the Logan's Run policy when the robots were working well enough to sustain us all.

Shortcut to Utopia.

[Reg Smeeton]

All children should be raised by the state. The cost could be offset by scrapping the pension with a retirement=euthanasia policy. All money in private pensions should also be seized by the state and put in to robotic and AI research with the goal of building an android slave work force so we could all live like kings; eventually scrapping the Logan's Run policy when the robots were working well enough to sustain us all.

Shortcut to Utopia.

 Title for a novel right there.

[flammableBen]

If you fancy writing a dystopian novel in which a society has decided to throw away a certain demographic for the greater benefit of the rest of the people, then go for it Reg. I'll let you have the title.

They say everybody's got a book in them but I reckon that's bollocks. Well as long as you're judging on a reasonable standard of length and quality. Keeping the concentration level up to have consistent characterisation with a significant plot is something that at least my brain can't cope with. Others might have better luck.

[magic8ball]

Oh God, the Dail Mail readers will have a field day on that one! Smacking, why that's worse the serial killing.

You can't blame the "brat", clearly the upbringing was to blame.

You appear to have misunderstood what stance a typical Daily Mail  reader would take on a subject like smacking, as this link represents.

BR, personally, I'd like to think that I wouldn't have smacked her, just picker her up from the floor, let her know that I wasn't happy, and taken her home immediately as I don't agree with smacking.

However, I don't have any kids yet (one imminent), so I can't really judge. I might turn into a mental kid beater.

[axs]

They say everybody's got a book in them but I reckon that's bollocks. Well as long as you're judging on a reasonable standard of length and quality. Keeping the concentration level up to have consistent characterisation with a significant plot is something that at least my brain can't cope with. Others might have better luck.

you'll read one, one day.

[flammableBen]

Fair play axs, that's the first time I've laughed out loud at the forum for fucking ages. I'm sort of glad it was at my own expense.

[Reg Smeeton]

If you fancy writing a dystopian novel in which a society has decided to throw away a certain demographic for the greater benefit of the rest of the people, then go for it Reg. I'll let you have the title.

They say everybody's got a book in them but I reckon that's bollocks. Well as long as you're judging on a reasonable standard of length and quality. Keeping the concentration level up to have consistent characterisation with a significant plot is something that at least my brain can't cope with. Others might have better luck.

 I started writing a book circa 1975...I'm still working on it.  Its not a work of fiction.

[flammableBen]

Really still working on it? Is it really long or do you average about 100 words a year?