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"I believe it's needed in some instances especially at younger ages when children can't understand the reasoning behind certain rules."
What age are you meaning?

"Pain is the body's natural form of parenting, in the most primitive way that even animals understand it outlines what something should and shouldn't do."
It's still lazy. Even with an animal there's ways that aren't enforced through fear. All it really does is "show them who's boss".

God damn, I wonder how fucked up I would have turned out if I were struck to teach things.

what did the kid's parents do? please don't say nothing

trunchbull?

nope, it's something that happened in my school. 

you're damaged.

This was the mentality I was trying to expose with this thread. I'm not talking about children being beaten with a clenched fist, I'm talking about a spanking or getting hit with a switch on the ass. I don't understand how spanking can be seen as cruelty, I think it's pretty sad that you'd refer to that as cruel. 

I believe physical discipline can, when carried out correctly, work, however I do believe there's always ways to help teach children without violence. It only ever made me worse as a young kid, and I punished a lot of kids because I thought they deserved it. My parents taught me that through their own careless violence, and I damaged some kids pretty badly. 

I also heard a story about a story about a teacher locking a "nasty piece of work" kid in a cupboard for a while as a punishment. What do you guys think of that method of punishment?

even if they didn't care..it's a missed opportunity. terrible shame

by Systematic

The huffington post is a website that is heavily influenced by liberal politics, not credible in the least. It's obviously going to be biased against physically disciplining children, it's trying to push an agenda. The article isn't even in a informative format. Maybe you should look into your sources a little bit more before backing them. 

It looks pretty informative to me and the sources they relied on in the article certainly seem credible:

Researchers from Tulane University

Sandra Graham-Bermann, Ph.D.

A 2011 study published in Child Abuse and Neglect

2012 study published in the journal Pediatrics

A 2009 study

A review published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that analyzed 20 years of data

I know it was a bit of a joke, but not really, honestly. I could have turned out REALLY damaged, but aside from the whole lack of empathy and anger issues for the first 18 years thing (and having a staggering phobia of thunder and lightning), I turned out, well, normal. I'm quite well-disciplined, though ;3