Reply To: Should Parents Intimidate Their Kids?

As I said before
It’s fairly clear that hitting used to be a normal part of חינוך
When and why exactly it changed can be discussed
But Josef is correct that in all the earlier sources it is very clear that it was a common part of the chinuch procedure.
As an aside
It is fairly common knowledge that the brisker rav said that in brisk they hit children for not being careful about shabbos FROM THE AGE OF 3
so yes as the sources quoted earlier seem to say, kids today won’t react properly to smacks so one should hold back but all the flowery rhetoric about it not being chinuch or being too young would seem to be on weak ground