I'm sorry but I don't agree with her. As long as it is just a smack and not a beating I do not see anything wrong with this. I admit that I was never smacked by my parents but I was certainly smacked on my backside and my hand by teachers in grammar school. In one instance I upset one of my French master so much that he sent me to the headmaster to fetch the cane and by the time I returned to the class he was in such a rage the he pushed a whole row of desks towards the back of the classroom made me bend over the desk and then wacked me so hard he actually caused a cut across my backside. When I got home I showed it to my parents and they asked why he had hit me so hard I told them and their attitude was, well it serves you right and you deserved it. It certainly did me no harm.