Do you approve of hitting children to punish them, under certain conditions?

[MohRokTah]

57. It is never EVER proper to use violence to punish children.

Okay, children who are in diapers? A swift swat on the butt (never hard, you aren't aiming for pain, just the noise of the swat on the pampers) serves to get their attention, especially since you cannot communicate effectively as they are unable to form speech patterns.

They cry. It's not due to pain. It's due to the sudden attention grabbing noise of the swat on their pampers. This is not violence. There is no pain as the swat is absorbed by the diaper. There is a swift grabbing of the child's attention so they know they have done something wrong.

By the time they are able to talk, you don't need to do that any longer, even if they are still in diapers. You communicate with them. You time them out. two minutes at three years old is an eternity. They learn from it.

Violence solves nothing with children. All it does is perpetuate violent behavior for at least one more generation.