I don't know how this turned into a corporal punishment thread, but if you think for a moment that you can't do life changing damage to a kid with that kind of punishment, you are sadly mistaken. I can bear first hand testimony to that.
Go ahead, tell me how you can strap a kid with a belt leaving welts and tell me you unconditionally love them. If you unconditionally loved them you would find another way. No kid ever deserves that!
Let this subject go back to campground pigs cause there are some people way off base here. They don't need to be offering their "helpful" (or is that hellfull) suggestions.