If it's not enough to hurt, I can't imagine it's an effective punishment. On the other hand, if it's done with enough force to hurt, then it shouldn't be done at all. Inflicting pain on a little kid is so utterly wrong.
I'm totally opposed to physically punishing children in any way. If a kid is considered to be enough of a problem to need a spanking or a slap or whatever, then there's something wrong with the kid, or the parenting, or both, or some other influence, and causing pain does not solve the problem at its root-- it just teaches the kid to act differently out of fear, and whatever the actual problem was gets suppressed.
I agree with those who say that inflicting pain is an outdated and ineffective form of punishment.
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