Join the conversation in our comments section below. Share your own views and experience and if you have a question or suggestion for our journalists then email us at news thelocal. Please keep comments civil, constructive and on topic β and make sure to read our terms of use before getting involved. Please log in here to leave a comment. The Local Denmark - news thelocal. Share Add a comment. We were on holiday recently and I witnessed a fairly familiar scene.
It could have been Anywhere, U. A or Wherever, Europe. It could have been on a beach, in the snow, in a restaurant or on the street. A family was eating dinner and a three-year-old girl was misbehaving.
He was a pretty big guy, as all people are compared to little children and she predictably recoiled in fear and did, in fact, "behave" after crying. I have seen this scene in so many different forms, with hitting and yanking, and with all ages of children. My only surprise is how foreign it becomes to me every time I see it. I was spanked as a child as I think many of us were.
I had taken it for granted that my husband and I would spank occasionally. How else do you discipline children? He found my point of view bizarre. I found his impractical. See also: France 'violates treaty on smacking children'. The truth is, most of us rarely question the way we are raised. Our upbringing is just normal to us. Society has some very engrained ideas about what is acceptable and what is not and we seldom challenge whether they are right or wrong.
The way we were brought up is just part of our cultural heritage and we wear it like the skin on our bodies. Spanking, although perhaps not openly talked about, is more or less acceptable in many places.
