Corporal punishment as discipline is not only ineffective, it's damaging.

[mopinko]

10. it screams to a child- nobody care about you. nobody care how you feel.

or what you think or say. a terrible message that will cripple that child's empathy for life.

i would ESPECIALLY add- never smack a kid in the head. never, ever, ever.
shouldnt need to say never put a kid's head through a wall, but apparently that needs to be said as well.
but with the growing science of traumatic brain injury, this is the worst form of abuse i can imagine. my own child's life was changed by a brain injury. one so subtle it wasnt detected until she was 21, tho the accident occurred when she was 4.
she is a bright and amazing person anyway.
but in hindsight, the trail of damaged potential is just heartbreaking.

if you would do this to a child, any child, let alone your own, there is no hole too deep to throw you down.