> To hit them would show a lack of understanding, control, reason, and temperance. These are bad things to teach. This is true, certainly. > The child hasn’t

> To hit them would show a lack of understanding, control, reason, and temperance. These are bad things to teach. This is true, certainly. > The child hasn’t had the opportunity to develop their reasoning faculties You're mistaken if you think that poor self-control is predicated on a lack of logical reasoning. But anyways, point is that no trust is lost when a parent hits a child; children don't apply that kind of transactional logic to personal relationships. We only learn that much, much later when we get to the politics that underlie school and work environments.