[quote=Magic Magnum]
Understandable, and I wasn't complaining. Just stating that when given limited info to go off of my responses tend to also be limited.1. This is where the difference of Discipline VS Punishment comes into play.Being in ECE (Early Childhood Education) at college atm this is something I've already been trained in.Discipline is the result/reaction to a misbehaviour that relates to the misbehaviour.Punishment is a result/reaction that doesn't relate. It is simply there to make the receiver feel bad for what they did.For example, a child is pouring milk and spills it all over the floor.Discipline would be having the child grab a mop and clean it up.Punishment would be sending them to their room, yelling at them or slapping their wrist for it.Raising a child on discipline allows the child to learn and see the natural consequences of their actions.They gain and are given (By their mentor/guardian) insight, explanation and reasoning for what happened, why it happened and what should happen as a result.This allows for more healthy and positive child development, a better relationship between parent & child and a better understanding on what and why something is wrong.Also, punishment like hitting is never, ever necessary to teach your child a lesson.Is it easy? Yes, if you're the kind of parent you can stomach your child being in pain.Can it make them stop? Maybe, depends on the child.Does the child walk away with much outside of injuries and bruises? Maybe guilt, and anything that causes them to understand what they did is wrong can be better done with discipline, natural consequences and communication.[/quote]I agree with you, but there are some things were discipline is difficult or impossible to enact due to the nature of the misbehavior. This is why I specified the social and emotional mores and taboos which might call for punishment rather than discipline. It's difficult to make a child feel a certain emotion and furthermore to make them realize that other people even have emotions (considering how socio or psychopathic the child). 
Also, if they purposefully spill something and know that their discipline will be to clean it up, they might learn that they can spill it whenever they like as long as they clean it up, resulting in wasteful and counter-productive behavior. 
That's stretching for a counter-argument, but something I just thought up that might be legitimate >.> I dunno...