korero

sue bradford is determined to inflict her view of the world on the rest of the country. not that i disagree in essence with her view that we should not use violence on our children. i just do not agree with her pc attempt to get kiwis to do as she says. i reckon the bill will make criminals of many of us. i wonder if the collective attitude towards smacking could be addressed at the family level. as an ex teacher, i know, that it [the issue] is addressed through behaviour and modelling in our schools. doesn't work though does it. our youngsters are still violent, they are desensitised to violence [just look at our tv and dvd, videos etc]. don't forget the gangsta culture we import into our communities.

the stuff poll this morning is pretty clear 8.8% of the vote say parents should lose the right to smack their children. 88.5% say parents should retain the right to smack their children. 2.7% can't figure out what they think.

we really need more rules, don't we?

we really need sue bradford to run roughshod over most of our society.