Two men, two very different approaches to parenting.
Given that social media did not exist when I was growing up, what do you think of it and its impact on children now?When you were growing up, to call your friends you would have to come to the living room and use the landline telephone. It was more supervised then. Now I can see that children have their own mobile phones; I love how they can access more of the world compared to even when you grew up, but I am also fearful that kids grow up a bit too fast.
My wife and I made the very conscious decision that smacking was never going to be part of our way of disciplining our children. In the 80s and 90s, I get it because this is what our parent’s generation grew up on. But while it was something I grew up with, too, it was not something that I wanted to continue for my kids.
For my generation, it’s about embracing what our parents did and taking it on to the next level. My wife and I are both lawyers and this is because of the sacrifices our parents made to get us to tap into the potential we had.