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Its funny how words like 'barbaric', 'violence' and 'thrashing' are being used. Those would be extreme cases, cases where parents are nutcases, alcoholics or just plain sadists beating kids up for fun. A smack on the hand/wrist is not going to seriously damage a kid, or make them psychopathic or anything like that. They will know they've done something wrong that they shouldn't do and learn from it.
Peronsally, I think the best way to discipline a child is to tell them off, warning, etc, and if that fails, use a smack as a last resort.
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