I am planning on having children in the next 10 years (not that I care about the financial burden). When I thought about this I decided to make up some advice:
“Spare the rod literally but not metaphorically.”
Basically yes, corporal punishment is too cruel, you still need to discipline the child in other ways. How can this be executed? Life lessons are my pitch.
Mine:
“Alex, your room is so dirty!” “But it wasn’t my fault.” “Yes it is, you didn’t clean when you were supposed to.” “But cleaning is hard.” “No it isn’t, I’ll teach you how to clean so you so you can do the rest.”