Kids under a certain age do not understand reason... they only associate pleasure and pain.
I have seen kids go horribly wrong when parents “spare the rod”.
The worst parenting practice today is not following through with a “command”. Watch parents that tell a child to do something like sit on the couch and when the child doesn’t or stops doing whatever made the parent give the command in the first place, the parent doesn’t enforce their command.
The child learns that they don’t actually have to do what the parent says. They just have to get to a point where the parent gives up. My wife and I never fell for this. When I said, come sit on the couch and if my child didn’t do it, or refused, they got an @$$ whooping. Period. Always.
To this day, if I direct my younger children to do something and they try that crap where they say they will stop doing whatever they are doing and try to avoid what ever I told them to do.... Doesn’t matter that they stopped doing whatever. I told them to do something and you better believe one way or another, they are going to do it.
As a result, I haven’t had to spank any of my children in years. Because they know... if I tell them something, they know exactly what the consequences are for not doing it. There is no compromise.
Like I said, parents that choose not to discipline in an appropriate way, you’re not doing yourself, your child, nor society as a whole any favors. You’re creating a monster.
Truth.