re: #273 Cato the Elder

There is no excuse for physical abuse of a child, and rarely any excuse to spank a child old enough to be punished with more effective consequences that they can understand. But there is nothing wrong with swatting a small child on the bottom in an extreme situation to emphasize NO!…and a generation of bratty, neurotic narcissists resulted from parents who would never, ever, dream of spanking their little angel.