Bristolians discuss: In England, parents are still allowed to use ‘reasonable physical punishment.’ Do you think it’s time to change that?

Today we discuss reasonable physical punishment from parents to children, is this type of discipline necessary?

Transcript

00:00Well, I know that they're trialing it being banned in Wales and Scotland and that the

00:07party line, literally the party line is that if it works there, then we'll apply it in

00:13England. But obviously it'll work there. You know, like a softer approach is just, is proven

00:18to be far better for children. And corporal punishment is not, is not useful at all. So

00:25yeah, I mean, I think it's a no brainer that that needs to be banned in England, but I

00:30also think it will work well in Scotland and Wales anyway, and therefore be, be banned

00:35as it is in most countries.

00:36I think reasonable punishment is good. The reason there is so much trouble with children

00:42is they've never been punished. When I was, my friend, who was a couple of years older

00:48than me, who's died, he got sent to six months in Borstal for stealing a bar of chocolate.

00:55That cured him of stealing, stealing. And it cured a lot of people.