If a Child Defies a Spanking, It Wasn’t Painful Enough
If your child defies you when you spank him, it’s not painful enough for him to not want it to happen again.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2018, from Why Children Matter, cited to the source.
Spanking should sting and should hurt, but it ought not to be damaging. If your child defies you when you spank him, it’s not painful enough for him to not want it to happen again. So instead of having ten spankings with three swats each, it would be far better to have one spanking with ten swats. You want to win decisively in the first round.