I think it was pretty stupid.

Kind of had a feeling it would involve food somehow, lol.

I think is a little bit too much

I don’t agree with his discipline method , and would never do this to my child.

I never have liked Jamie Oliver and I would really like to place red hot chillies in certain places in him!! I do not believe in smacking children but firm discipline is required but there are many methods and not all work with all children but pain and cruelty is not needed,

Parenting is a learning experience with different techniques working for different families. I see nothing wrong with Jamie’s actions, as long as it was explained to his daughter afterwards what the punishment was for.

no so sure if it is dicipline or just some fun for him how does it teach the children their actions are wrong with an action of pain and discomfort

this is child abuse, plain and simple, WTF is wrong with him.

It might have been effective if she knew it was a consequence to bad behaviour but what us the point of doing something ‘some time later’

Discipline needs to be direct; cause and effect. ‘Sneaking’ in a punishment does not teach cause and effect. Any type of sneaky behaviour causes distrust.

BET THEYDONT DO THIS AGAIN HEY… I WOULDNT OOOOH HOT HOT HOT

It didn’t really discipline her at all because for 1. the daughter didn’t know she was being punished or what for. 2. the mum didn’t agree on the punishment and weren’t on the same side, so it achieved nothing.

its about time the dogooders slither away and let parents be parents

you cannot smack a child because its assault
putting them in their room is false imprisonment
taking away their toys is theft
not giving them mobile phone credit is child endangerment

the list goes on. you think my list is ridiculous? yep, so do but it was a DOCs worker who informed of all of this and the police confirmed it when i phoned them

BUT if i allow my child to run amok, i can be charged with endangering the welfare of a minor! parents cant win these days

so maybe the dogooders will be happy to explain to us how exactly are we supposed to discipline children? DOCs told me i am supposed to come down to my child’s level, tell the child i dont like being called a c**t and that it hurts my feelings and then beg them not to do it again. when the child tells me to go F myself, im supposed to again beg them not to hurt my feelings

ive got a child who is a local menace. well known to the police, her behaviour talked about by all and sundry and kicked out of 3 different schools. so many people blamed me for her behaviour but every punishment i came up with for poor behaviour could have seen me arrested. youre damned if you do and youre damned if you dont

the govt need to give parents back their rights. you hear so many stories about kids robbing people on the train and stuff like that and everyone asks where the parents were. the poor parents were probably sitting at home worried sick about where their child was, what they were doing and who they were doing it to

good on jamie oliver for his actions! bad form for his wife to undermine his authority though. when he gives up disciplining his kids and leaves it all to the wife, she’ll complain that he’s not supporting her lol

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  • • keeleynme replied
    • 05 Dec 2014 , 3:58 pm

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  these are all very untrue, it is not illegal IN AUSTRALIA to smack your child (with exceptions) but a normal tap on the butt is fine. It IS ILLEGAL to abuse your child etc belting them out of anger until they are full of bruises or broken bones etc. nor is there a law about putting them in their room, you are not allowed to lock them in or keep them in there forever but yes you are allowed to send them to their room for a reasonable amount of time.

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    • • keeleynme replied
      • 05 Dec 2014 , 4:00 pm

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    also since when is taking items you bought (ie toys) of a child theft? They were purchased buy you and belong to you, that’s like saying selling your babies grown out of clothes or selling their baby toys they don’t play with anymore selling stolen goods. that is ridiculas.

Appealing behaviour, a side of him I’ve never seen before

Well I wouldn’t do it, it’s a bit mean. But, he was rather creative. I wonder if she actually learned anything from it other than her dad did something mean to her.

I agree with Jules i think it’s a bit nasty.

Not sure what I think. Personally I would not do it, but it is better than him smacking his child or running them down with verbal abuse. Everyone parents differently and I think we have to be careful of judging others.

I don’t agree to it. But I’m not here to tell others how to parent their kids.

I don’t think I’d do that, but gee it’s hard sometimes to find effective ways of disciplining kids.

Nope, not something I could do to my kids