Bright and sunny here, hope it stays this way.
Busy day ahead as I have to go out shopping for an outfit for a wedding and help a friend find something suitable for Mother of the Bride! She says she wants me with her as I will be honest lol!!!
Can see an argument brewing!
Four of us going, including the bride, so it should be fun.
Woke up to this news this morning:
The NSPCC is launching a campaign asking retailers to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to parents smacking their children.
The children's charity is calling on shops to do more to prevent parents from losing control of their children and then hitting them.
Suggestions include handing out leaflets on how to deal with tantrums.
Chris Cloke, head of child protection awareness at the NSPCC, said the charity's aim was to support parents.
He told the BBC: "We know that shopping, like parenting in general, can be very, very stressful and therefore if the shop assistant can say can we support you in some way, can we help you with your shopping, can we look after your child, that would be helpful towards the parents.
"And we believe that parents will benefit from this, that children will benefit from that and we also believe it makes good economic sense for the shops too."
Parental support
Other suggestions made by the NSPCC are for shops to display leaflets on how to deal with difficult behaviour, training staff to support those who are struggling, and providing play areas for children.
A survey conducted for the NSPCC found 40% of the adults questioned would rather visit a shop where smacking was banned.
Results from the ICM poll, of more than 1,000 adults, also found that 77% consider that smacking is becoming less acceptable.
And 93% of those who took part in the survey said they wanted to see shops taking action to help parents avoid losing their temper with children.
Now I am not for being physically violent towards children. I do however believe that you should set boundaries, that children should know how to behave in public and that the odd smack on the hand is not going to give children a complex. Both of my children have been bought up to know how to behave, they are not allowed to run round the supermarket, they have to stay at my side or with a stationary trolley at all times and they are not allowed to touch anything. I will not say that they haven't touched or wondered off on occasions, but the word sorry comes easily to them if they get in someones way.
I am not perfect, it is respect for fellow shoppers, and I have taught them to have respect for others around them.
I get increasingly annoyed when children run round shops without supervision, in one case allowed to play football in the shop and get in everyones way. I am fed up with being pushed ans shoved by children who should know better how to behave, while the parents whine and swear or ignore their children. I get annoyed when shop staff never ever have the right to say to the children go and find your parent or say to the parent can you control your child please before they cause harm to themselves or others without being sworn at or verbally abused. So how the hell are shopworkers expected to stand in if they see you smack your child which when intereviewed this morning an spokesperson from the NSPCC said that should happen? Who is going to take notice of a bunch of leaflets on how to deal with your children?
And where were the creches when we were dragged shopping by our parents?
There weren't any because we knew how to behave for crying out loud.
Nanny state yes. The only way around this is to make all parents expecting children to go to parenting classes OR to use basic common sense and have respect (which is dwindling fast in this society/world of ours) for other people and their property!!!
And on that note I will sign off and get ready for my shopping trip.
Have a good day
