I was smacked, beaten, punched, hit with sticks...you name it, as a child.
I have no problem with 'appropriate' corporal punishment if that is what is required to discipline certain individuals, as has been the case for probably millions of years.
I have never struck my boy...I just couldn't, but then again, he has always been such a good child, perhaps because he was loved and given proper guidance from day one.
Not all kids have that experience, or perhaps have a more disruptive personality, because of course they/we are all individuals.
