Once, when my daughter was first walking, I caught her messing with an electrical outlet, trying to stick stuff in there. I think she was pretending they were car keys, and that she was driving. I told her to stop it, moved her away from the outlet, but soon she did it again. I scolded her, gave her something else to play with, and kept an eye on her. Almost immediately she was back there, trying to stick things into the outlet.
I was frustrated by then, and wanted to get the point across, and felt a swat on the butt was warranted. She was wearing a diaper at the time, so I gauged the force applied to be felt through that padding. I gave her a swat, aimed at her butt....and she moved.
I ended up connecting on the small of her back, right above the diaper. Immediately the red imprint of my NAND was visible on her back, and of course she was wailing. I felt ill....physically ill. I thought I was going to throw up.
I don't regret my decision to swat her butt, given the circumstances, but I sure wish she would have stood still....
I doubt it too 
