You need to stop talking and start learning. There is NO way to correctly employ corporal punishment. At all. Time and time again, hitting a child for misbehav

You need to stop talking and start learning. There is NO way to correctly employ corporal punishment. At all. Time and time again, hitting a child for misbehaving has proven to increase aggressive behavior and decrease self confidence. It also has the complete opposite effect as intended. I could go into the psychology of it, but as you are on Hacker News, you know how to use Google. For that matter, the other two "liberal" methods you mentioned, shaming and time out don't work either. I believe what you are attempting to discredit is known as positive discipline. That traces its roots to Alfred Adler, with the date being 1964 when he first mentioned it. That's hardly liberal. However, if you actually study positive discipline, it's nothing more than taking the ideas of Dale Carnegie and applying them to children. And Carnegie freely admits his ideas were drawn from the Bible and other religious texts. They are hardly liberal or conservative.