Disciplinary spanking...

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There was this article in our local newspaper before that caught my attention. It was something about a way of life that existed a few years back and made me reminisce my childhood days. It was the time when began to learn the meaning of the word hate, how I associated that word to my parents sometimes, and how much I value those experiences now after I realized what it really meant. Heard of the word spanking? It is inflicting any physical force to a person, and it comes in different forms; a slap in the face or behind, a pinch in the arms or legs, be battered by a leather belt, slippers, stick, fan, or any object, etc. What are they anyway? It was predominant before in our country as way of disciplining children. Any wrong doing comes with a painful remembrance just to make one, hopefully, not to repeat such act again. I grew under such rule existing in our very home. It's like having a tyrant living inside a structure which suppose to be a place of love and happiness. I was young then. I didn't get the idea why I am being slapped by my parents and elder relatives everytime I do something wrong. I get slapped in some areas in my body based from my actions; saying bad words -mouth, stealing stuff from others - hands, going home late - legs, making other people upset - behind. I still consider myself lucky though since I didn't get to experience more "significant" versions such as kneeling on rock salt, eating soap, or being hanged on a tree inside a sack. No, it's not yet that extreme. I'm still alive. Those were gestures of love before. It didn't violate any law until now. It appears harsh, strict and scary. If it is painful, then how did it become a gesture of love? If you will judge such at the time it was administered, I will certainly agree that it appears more of anger than love. But after the painful feeling has passed, or run a few more years that you become older and wiser, how do you view them now? Me and my friends are laughing about our own experiences. Again, we are still alive. We are somehow more disciplined than the youth of today. We learned to fear wrong things. We learned how painful it is to do something wrong. We learned that those people whom we have done wrong were in more pain that what we really got from them. We learned how much our parents and our elder relatives loves us that they wish to teach us the right things and make it a part of our way of living. We learned that no hate really existed during those times, it is more of concern, to our future. With so many laws created and activists roaming around today, such culture has decreased dramatically over the past few years. But what happened to our present generation? It is saddening to see most of them as they are right now. The right values are diminishing to children as if the good ones are a rare breed. They are no longer afraid to do the wrong things, which is pretty scare if it falls to majority of the children today. Does a little bit of spanking really help in enforcing discipline? Were you raised this way by your parents? Do you think it helped you become who you are right now? Can we still apply this to the present generation?