I'm a very sensitive person by nature and even many years later, I still can't get over my mother using that as ''discipline''. I hated it, my relationship with my mother hasn't ever been close and unlike the crowd that keeps saying ''oh my mom would hit me with anything growing up and I thank her for that'', I'm actually traumatized till this day.
A kid my age (male) once called the cops for that and he got treated similar to this video here:
I figure if even the cops thinks hitting a kid and using fear is the right way, what good example have we got, who can we trust? That to me is the same thing as if I were to call the cops for getting slapped around and they were to tell me ''it's only a slap, you must be your good behavior and your boyfriend/husband won't need to ''discipline'' you''. I view hitting as hitting, regardless of where it's done at and whether it's done with your hands or an object. I find that a terrible practice.
Obviously no cops would be telling me to go back to my abusive spouse that slaps me around for ''discipline'' so what difference does it make doing that to a kid?
