Self Soothing, Bottle Feeding and Dummies are Three Parenting Techniques That Bug Others

Everyone has an opinion on the right and wrong way to parent with some more militant than others.

PreciousLittleOne, polled 10,000 people in the UK to find out which parenting tactics they despised.

A 53 per cent disagreed with smacking children, with women aged between 55 and 64 years of age being most vehemently opposed.

Secondly came technology, with 19.6 wanting youngsters below the age of 16 to have restricted access to smartphones and tablets.

Other parenting techniques people took exception to were using a dummy (19.6 per cent), self soothing (12.2 per cent) and bizarrely bottle feeding, which offended a 6.9 per cent.