They talk in so many ways of the harm to children experiencing a simple smack of guidance; to improve their learning and to pave the way for their success as future adult-kind. I wish, hand on heart, I would have gotten smacked as a child. Anything would have been better than your silent treatment; your turned back and the nonspeaking for days on end continuing. If you wanted me to learn, then for the love of God why did you not speak. Your silence was weak, and were you not dead already; I would seek you out, axe in hand. Screaming.