shocked!!!!

SHOUTS LOUDLY:..................IT WASN'T JUST SHOUTING IT WAS BELLOWING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [grins manically emotiocon]

The child who bullied my son from the age of 4.1/2 was in turn bullied by his brothers and smacked loudly at the school gates by his bullish mother. He certainly learned his aggressive behaviour from his family.

Thin you are right inthefields: Never the twain shall meet. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggggh!!!!!!! wish I had never started the whole thread.

Don't wish that! It's interesting.

latest bit of useless information I mean research

Oh it certainly is Jo8. I remember putting my 9 year old across my knee when he had been exceptionally rude to me. I raised my hand but it just would not make contact. A bit like a gunslinger being unable to shoot. After three attempts I gave up and left the room!

We had a silly game thing where I would put mine over my knee and put one hand on their bum and then smack my own hand, it was fun and not done when they had done something wrong. I did it once to one of their friends who cried desperately even though they had seen me doing it to my own. I could only assume that they were smacked hard at home. I never did it to anyone else's child again.

I BELLOWED at my dgds once when they (13 & 10) were very giddy and I couldn't hear myself think. Then we all burst out laughing in the following silence!

I for one would not have sat on a 'naughty step' I was rather a handfull for my mother according to family legend. I also have one daughter who would not have stayed on a naughty step either and now she, too, has one daughter who I'm sure wouldn't but my DD2 is sensible enough not to introduce it. With those kind of genes, threatening works better because then they have the choice to behave well or badly.

I'm always surprised when they actually sit there. I don't like the naughty step. DD uses it.

Ella

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