The correct answer from Dwight Howard and anyone else in this position, is MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Willow switches and belts were the tools of parenting a thousand generations. Only now, do we have a truly EVIL 2 or 3 generations alive on this Earth at one time. Why is that? No discipline at all, period. They have no fear, therefore no respect.
You should raise your kid to respect and obey you because he loves and honors you.
If you beat your kid he only obeys you out of fear.
But if you like your kid fearing you instead of respecting you then what I am saying will make no sense to you.