The child in my charge does punishment exercises. If you are not going to be smart, you need to be strong. I have had the cops called on me for doing it too. I ask the officers if they had to do punishment exercises I the police academy. They all say yes. I then ask if doing those exercises was abusive or illegal. Everyone one of them laughs and walks away.
Are the discipline exercises done by the child while in view of the public? That would matter a great deal to most people. I was okay getting a spanking a thousand years ago, in the privacy of my closed door bedroom. However, I would have been devastated to have seen people crowded around just casually watching it happen. That probably would have turned my against my parents.
Ha, ha. I did the same thing. I had my kids walk the stairs. I used to tell them, you may not end up well behaved, but you would be in shape.
I figured that it was easier on me and harder on them- kind of "self-punishment."
The kids are adults now and they both agree that they would have preferred getting spanked.
My stepson got sent home from church camp once for hitting another kid. By the time I got home from work, my husband (Army) had taught him what parade rest was, and had him doing push-ups, etc. If making your kid exercise is a crime, well... there’s a reason so many are obese these days.
I will say I agree with spanking as an on-the-spot correction, but.. not for something that’s already happened. It loses its effectiveness. Kinda like beating your dog for tearing up something yesterday.