Smack Heads
There’s a lot of debate at the moment about smacking children;
Whether it’s appropriate in civilised society to use violence to direct a child’s behaviour
Whether smacking your child is a lesson in being cruel to be kind
Whether it’s ok to smack another person’s child
Whether it’s best if we all smack every child we lay eyes on
On a recent Talk Sport radio phone-in, one caller said that if her kiddie was misbehaving in the supermarket she used to threaten it with her singing opera in the middle of the store and that soon brought the little toe-rag into line. Can you imaging that?
I was taught by nuns in primary school and these people new how to be violent. They customised rulers by splitting them at the ends or by tying a two together so they inflicted maximum pain when hit with them. Nuns were brilliant at throwing chalk and board rubbers. They always aimed for the temple. If you were lucky there’d be four of you still conscious at the end of an English lesson.
I think most of these nuns were blokes who couldn’t make the grade as priests. I know Sister Immaculata had a tattoo of a swallow on her neck and wore size 11 Dr Martin boots.
