Beating your kids is the lazy way out for shytty parents who can't be bothered to actually engage with their kids and are too emotionally and intellectually immature to do the job properly.
I grew up this way. Parents that went straight to beating, shouting, punishment whenever I did anything that made them look bad. And that's what it was all about. Not teaching me anything. Not engaging. Not talking. Just this. The only thing being beaten everytime I did something wrong or ran into issues taught me is how to lie better, cover up my errors, run away from my emotions, live a life of inhibited fear of failure or mistakes, which leads to depression, and how to be a cruel a$$hole myself who can't fully see or understand others feelings and has difficulties maintaining meaningful relationships.
And like I said all they truly cared about when it came on to disciplining is that their kid made THEM look bad as "parents" not even always because I did something wrong. If not that it was just to make the job of teaching me things about life quick and easy for them. Cruel for me. Unproductive missed opportunities
And these are the same parents who when their sons are all in jail or on the streets ask stupid questions like "what's wrong with these kids? Who taught them violence is the only way to solve your issues?"
It's wrong and of course we got typical "I luv my muhmuh. she made skrong!" lil immature mama's boys who can't think for themselves, are too lazy to and in denial of their emotions--as they were trained--to figure out their own gathered approach to kids, and plan to revisit their trauma with their own trauma as parents themselves.
Black parents please leave this lazy barbaric parenting in the past where it belongs. Your parents emulated yourn grandarents, who emulated you great grandparents, who got it from your great great grandparents, who's parents learned it from their Binle thumping slave masters. Stop this shyt. It doesn't work and it's a huge source of why so many of our youth fall into lives of destruction and depression. Be an adult. Be mature. Kids are allowed to be immature and crude. Not you. Love and teach your kids patience, self-care, and kindness for the world, not hate and violence. Beating your kids is NOT love. Love should NEVER hurt. EVER.