[LowOiL]

We had belts used on us as kids, and rather than teach me respect it caused me to become resentful and hardened and rebellious.

To me it was the opposite. I did not like to be slapped, but the belt was a deterent. The belt could be used to correct in the future. I knew when my mother laid the belt on something (like the kitchen table) that I had better do my chores (and doing the dishes was one of them). It made a tool in the future and often prevented future correction.

[Jorge]

To me it was the opposite. I did not like to be slapped, but the belt was a deterent.

I guess every kid is different.
I remember one time my father punched me in the head so hard that I saw stars.....and I thought about how the comics showed stars around a character's head when they got hit, and it amazed me that it really happened.LOL.
But I hated that belt. It made me vengeful.