When one of my sons, at age 4 or 5 picked up a brick and hit my other son in the head with it "just to see what would happen" he got a spanking. He got to see

When one of my sons, at age 4 or 5 picked up a brick and hit my other son in the head with it "just to see what would happen" he got a spanking. He got to see what would happen. And you know what? He never did anything like that again. I don't think that spanking should be a go-to punishment, but in some cases, especially those involving high danger, a small child needs to have a fundamental fear of breaking certain rules. I'd rather have to give a child a spanking for trying to run out into the road than to have a dead child and some sort of moral superiority.