I copped it hard growing up, but I didn't flog my kids like I got, I used my voice, took things or toys off them and as a last resort a smack on the hand or bum, because sometimes that little smack was all that was needed,

I was hit with the jug cord, peach stick, rubber water pipe, school canes, a stock whip and, once, with a cattle prod - along with a few other things I wouldn't mention.

My hand was the only thing I ever smacked my kids with and it was just for that little bit of shock value on the child when they were putting themselves in danger like continueing to go back and play with electrical things that could shock, climbing things that could fall on them, biting or hurting someone else.

I gave both my kids a smack for hitting another kid for no reason. Sitting them away from everyone else and ignoring them for tantrums worked to a point but sometimes a smack on bum ended it. Laws are broken every day all this law will do is make criminals out of good parents and those parents that would have lost it with their kids will still injure or kill, no matter what experts tell us or what the law says.

Wise old King Solomon from way back, commended it. If there have been more deaths from violence due to parents beating their kids, maybe that's because parents have been watching too much violence on TV. Parents need to be educated somehow in giving discipline to children. There are many ways to discipline kids apart from smacking. But parents should not whack their kids while they themselves are "hot under the collar." They should compose themselves - regain their cool - and explain to their child while they are going to be smacked, and then smack them on the bottom with an open hand.

This is training and discipline, not abuse.