I have smacked a few times, as a very very last resort and felt horrible about it!! So I'm trying very hard to use other techniques.

I read something interesting the other day that was basically a little story that went something like, "a woman had a small car accident, when she told her husband about the accident he told he that she needed to be more careful next time when driving. The next week the woman had another car accident, when she told her husband about he smacked her on the leg and said, I told you not to do that".

Then it said that this woman could take her husband to the police and have him charged for assult.

Yet we think its ok to smack our kids???