smacking a child

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when i was a young child, as a punishment i was smacked. i was old enough to understand why i was being smacked, and old enough to learn from it. i was hard enough to cause some pain, for me to learn what i did was wrong. but not hard enough to be abused. i respect my parents for it, and it certainly has worked better than the groundings and technology-banning i get now i am teen. and when i have children, i will most likely use the same forms of discipline my parents used. time outs for real little kids, smacks for junior primary kids, and groundings and technology-banning for older than that. i know that time again my kids will disprove theories that worked for my parents, so that's likely to change. and i would never smack another person's child. * * * * * what i would like to know is: do you think we should be allowed to smack our children as discipline (provided it does not become abusive) and what other punishments could/should be implemented? * * * * * and i realize this probably isn't the first time there's been a thread on this, if all you're going to do is tell me that, save both your time and mine..just don't bother. if you're going to tell me it's wrong to smack a child, tell me why!