Yup. It turns out any violence of any kind toward children is bad. Like fucking really, really, really bad.
people think that violence “tuffens people up” when in reality you are forever grinding away important and necessary parts of a persons psyche. Turns out beating your kid “tuffens” them up the same way female circumcision ‘tuffens up’ 12 yr old girls in Africa.
my heritage is Bavarian/Western Austrian and culturally they were tops when it came to harsh child discipline. Literally, could tell Ireland, Russia and N Korea to hold their beir. However, their ideal for a boy as a child was arrogant, aggressive, confident and dominate. Basically a bully and their discipline molded that.
I remember when I was 3 and I would stay over at older family’s house in the morning I would walk in to the kitchen and climb up on old grandpa like man’s lap and start eating his breakfast. If he didn’t want me to, I kicked him in the shins until he let me. They thought that was the cutest thing ever. When we came to the States my dad said that they got me out of Germany just in time.