Is spanking children the right thing to do?

Editor's note: According to a recent poll, 60 percent of Chinese people surveyed believe spanking is an effective way to discipline children and not a form of domestic violence.

There has been hot discussion on whether spanking children is the right thing to do. You're welcome to share your thoughts on the issue.

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I don't know about you. But spanking did work for me. Recalling my own childhood, I can still remember three times when I was spanked.

There's one time after I got caught red-handed stealing crab apples with my cousin in a vegetable garden. The man told my father and I got a good beating.

There was another time when I slashed someone's sunflowers in half with a reaphook just for fun, and my mother spanked me hard until a scab on my arm fell off and blood dripped everywhere.

There was another time when my primary school teacher kicked my butt after I skipped an entire school day.

To me, those spankings served me right. I learned that I shouldn't disgrace my father, and there is a consequence for stealing.

I also learned that there's always a price to pay for your own wrong-doings. Most importantly, I never skipped a single class again after that spanking, now I was grateful to my teacher that I later became the only one in my village who got accepted to a university.

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