I don't think there's any need to hit children, even if sometimes there's nothing you want to do more. Other forms of punishment work, physical violence needn't be employed. I was caned or smacked when I was younger, it didn't much help, it just made me angry. The natural instinct is to defend oneself from a violent attack, and to have to stand there and accept it is pure humiliation, or was for me. Anyway, I got too old for that and other forms of punishment were employed, and worked a whole lot better. I can never ever imagine consenting to let somebody else hit my own children, if I ever have any.
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"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
Einstein
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.
- John Lennon