Corrie.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....viewers-complain.html

Did it offend you?

[horselady]

I imagine that Anna will now chuck him out so that horrible brat will have got her own way in the end.

[LoftyLottie]

............ and ten years old or not, she really is a horrible brat!!

[LoftyLottie]

Just seen this on ITV player. Somewhat more than a slap round the back of the legs! It was quite brutal. I can almost understand a slap on the legs, I used to get them (not that I approve).

[CreamSoda]

No, she deserves a slap, so does Anna for not disciplining her and allowing her rude and stroppy ways.

[funnygirl]

I would have drowned her in the fish pond!!!

[missprim]

I wasn't offended but shocked as I don't think we've seen this sort of thing in Corrie before, but we know it's acting and hopefully the girl's parents have ok'd it.
I do wonder though about children who are subjected to violence in films and TV, I wonder if it ever affects them.
If I saw it happening in real life......well that's a different matter.

[Purple_Popple]

It didnt offend me, she deserved it and needed taking in hand...she is a sprat.

[LoftyLottie]

Still think that it was more vicious than a slap round the legs. Yes she deserves punishment and badly needs taking in hand, but no child deserves to be hit like that. When a large hefty man strikes a child, for whatever reason then it is wrong.

[cathfromsaron]

as a viewer, i was suitably shocked at the turn of the plot, but not offended by what is, indeed, fiction!

complainers should perhaps consider that a discussion of the subject would be constructive ... ?

cath x

[whiskeryron]

what's the betting that she runs away causing more heartache for Anna & the police will now get involved. The Corrie writers will have a field day with this storyline. Ever since corporal punishment was banned this country has rapidly gone downhill, I think that the majority of kids are on the whole well behaved but there are quite a few who take advantage of the ''don't beat the kids'' law. I would honestly hate to be a teacher or a magistrate who have to deal with some of them.

Ron.

[katerich48]

I often wonder when corporal punishment issues occur in the media. And there is a hue and cry from certain sections of the pubic about it. I wonder if these people who are so shocked and appalled have ever had a smack from their parents..Because if they had they'd realise that most of us in this country (born 40, 50, 60, years ago) probably had it done to us at one time or another and how little it bothered us...They witter on about mental scars - what a load of hooey...I wasn't costantly smacked (and that's all it was - a smack) I can't even remember how many times that's how much it bothered me and it was always on the back of the legs and usually for smirking when I was being told off...But here I am alive, and normal, no parental issues and not scarred for life - who'd have thought? Obviously not those drippy, dopey, wets who wouldn't know how to be naughty if it came in and smacked them round the legs...They're out there getting up on their soapboxes every time. about something they know nothing about..And to them I say try being taught by nuns if you want to know about smacking e.g. canes and rulers..Still not bovvered...