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One of the best alternatives to smacking is preventing child's behaviour. We are adults, we are the smart and experienced ones, so it should be not very difficult for us to foresee what a child would do. Very young children are not very inventive: they want to touch every thing that is hanging, that is moving or making noises. Predicting what a child would like to familiarize with we can even pretend a 'controlled experience': eg. let the child touch a hot pot or a kettle. When a child finds out itself that it is hot he or she will never touch it again. In this way we can teach children many useful things.