I am fed up with 'professionals' making me feel that I have brought my children up badly because I used smacking as part of their discipline. Children need to know that defiant behaviour is unacceptable.
In my capacity as a registered childminder I have never smacked a minded child and do not intend to. I do, however, believe the right to use physical punishment should be preserved for parents.
Tracy Morris, London
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