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/^t/To sum up, there are at least a few different alternatives of dealing with children than smacking them. One of them is punishing children in order to teach them that if they do wrong they will have to pay for it. Reasonable parents will rather choose a method of rewarding them which, in the end, leads to the same thing: teaching a child good manners and proper behaviour. The so called 'modern' way of bringing children up proposes teaching kids basis of proper human communication which is trying to understand and talking to other people. All these methods are put in the opposition to corporal punishment which is the least effective way of teaching children discipline and descent behaviour. The only thing they are really taught by means of smacking is agresion and the need for revange. Therefore, a sensible parent needs to make an effort and find their own way of teaching children what is right and what is wrong.