You don't need to hit kids to teach them respect and discipline, if anything that makes them worse in the future, you can easy teach kids respect without using violence which is wrong against children. My friends family who I use to hang around with when I was a Kid, he's got like 5 brothers, his dad is some nutter and his mum isn't much better, any time they did anything wrong, beat them up m8, broom stick round the head or a belt round the body, did it help them? well there all older now and all bloody nutters and crinimals.