I have a VERY strict rule on smacking. No one but DP or myself are to do it. I am not against smacking. But as a child was literally belted! Not saying I don't smack or judge anyone else for smacking though, but I tend to use it, like most people, as a last result. I would rather find alternatives. But if I ever EVER found out someone else had smacked my child I would be absolutely ropable, no matter how naughty she had been.