The Chair - // It's strange world we live in where kids are expected to be wrapped in cotton-wool, and allowed to get away with anything up to a certain age, and then they reach that age, and suddenly the can be tasered, jailed for years, or harshly punished in various other ways. Perhaps it would be kinder to them if some discipline was introduced into their lives at an earlier age, as it used to be when I was a kid. I'm with the bus driver. //
I am at the grandparent, and great-grandparent stage now, but my belief that discipline is an absolutely essential aspect of child development has never varied one iota.
However, try as I might, I can't see that any of my grandchildren being assaulted in the street by an unknown adult is actually going to enhance their understanding of right and wrong behaviour.