I’ve always seen it as more of a corrective attention getter. Its not about making it hurt, but more about drawing focus to the issue.
I’ve seen these people who try to reason with 4 year olds and they’re just making life harder for everybody in the long run.
I have three kids. When my oldest daughter was six (had twins 2 1/2 years younger), one day they were being particularly bad and I just had to walk away from them. My six year old came into the living room and said “mommy, sometimes we just need a whippin”. LOL Kids know they need boundaries and they need to know there are consequences to crossing those boundaries. This “time out” crap doesn’t teach them anything other than their parents are wimps.
I was never beaten or slapped but I got a few whippings, with a hand, sometimes a “switch”, but I learned to not do what I was doing again.
Kids are already so out of control that I can’t imagine what the next generation will be like.
This year we got new neighbors, including a 4 year old and a 6 year old daughters. They are super kids.
One evening I was in the garden and the six year old sidled up and asked me to help her get a switch. Her mother she said, sent her out side to get one to switch her bad sister.
Keeping a straight face I declined but was sort of amazed that there apparently some good solid Christian parents that consider a switch good discipline