Well, parents don't need to smack, hit, hurt or kick their children in order to discipline them. My Mum had me and my older brother. My brother was a nightmare (Kicked out of 3 playschools) when he was younger. And I am autistic (The autism was very bad when I was younger). But my Mum never smacked us once. All she did was ban something temporarily. Such as my brother not being able to have friends over or something like that. And we were brought up just fine. All without smacking.
I remember when I was about 5 years old, I was at my father's house. I ended up spilling just a small glass of Orange Juice. Do you know what he did? He smacked me and put me to bed. I didn't mean to spill it and I didn't get a chance do anything about it. It's left me a bit nervous to spill something when I am at someone else's house.
Smacking or any other form of physical violence as a punishment could have a negative effect on someone. It could make the child violent towards other people as they might be influenced by the smacking. It can make them hate their parents a lot more. Or it could just make them fear the parent.
Good Parents don't need to smack. My Mum never had to smack us to make us behave.
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