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1) I don't believe in using physical pain, ever, when there is an alternative. Especially one that works WELL. (especially when we must teach children not to hit or be physical with other children or adults - hypocritical much??!!!)

2) These children were hyped, it's completely unfair to say they're rude/spoilt/bratty/obnoxious when we have no idea at all.

Even the best behaved child will have their occasional bad moments.

If you disagree with the above two points then I think we'll have to agree to disagree.

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I find this video amusing. Personally.

That particular child was definitely out of line and should have been dealt with - which, for all we know, she may well have been afterwards.

A young child being a tad ungrateful when receiving a really, really, awful gift that they have clearly all been hyped up to think is amazing (ooo, early christmas present!) is hardly surprising - nor does it make them foul children.

'Whoopin' is lazy as far as I'm concerned. Sure, few kids that received such treatment as a child have come out as poorly functioning adult that cries about childhood 'abuse' - I'm not fighting that corner. I just believe that it is a simple means to an end. Namely used by people who don't wish to spend the extra few minutes talking appropriately to their child about their behaviour/don't know any different.

I'm not a parent at 20 (thankfully!), but I work as a nanny for 5 different families so I do feel as if I've earnt my right to put my pennies worth in on the whole child discipline subject. I work with children aged 18 months - 13 years... and often have four of them at one time (ouch!!).

Many of the children I work with behave appallingly around their parents. Hitting, throwing things, turning over tables, shouting, swearing and so on... do they do that with me? No. I don't permit it, so they don't do it. It would be illegal for me to lay a finger on one of those kids anyway...but I fail to see why I should ever want or need to? I can discipline them without so much as raising my voice and so, to save them a small amount of physical pain and/or humiliation, that's the way I will go ahead with if and when I have my own kids. I don't raise my voice....I still get an apology, the situation rectified (they clean up whatever they threw etc), a hug and a 'I love you really' from them.

But anyway, that's all veering off away from the point. Especially since this isn't the think tank so it shan't be taken notice of anyway!

My only (well, relevant one) point is that these kids are not horrible, spiteful, rude, obnoxious or similar just because they weren't thrilled with the nonsense they got. They were hyped up and lead to believe it would be something great...hardly surprising they were disappointed. I'd have been! I might not have been rude about it, or cried, but I've got 15 odd years on them. Kids at that age don't have the same level of humour as us adults, nor are they as well trained at receiving presents graciously.

It seems very harsh to be saying anything negative here!

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two comments.

one - nothing funnier than playing practical jokes on young kids who still believe in Santa, who look on Christmas day as a day of magic and then recording it on camera and putting it on national tv - wonder how much they paid those parents for those vids?

two - if those kids reacted badly, at that age, it's time to take a good hard look in the mirror at what values the parents are teaching them, parents more interested in filming bad behavior than disciplining them, in parents who'd do something that mean spirited in the first place. those kids are going to grow up to make great parents, themselves, you just wait.

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