It Seems Discipline is Important After All

Can you have self-discipline if you never had any of the regular kind? Smacked children more successful later in life, study finds

A study found that youngsters smacked up to the age of six did better at school and were more optimistic about their lives than those never hit by their parents.

Expect all the usual suspects to have a fit.

The research, conducted in the United States, is likely to anger children’s rights campaigners who have unsuccessfully fought to ban smacking in Britain.