Spanking has never even crossed my mind with my own child. It just doesn't factor into my thinking at all. I was spanked here and there as a child, nothing major but I fail to see any positive benefit to the action of hitting a child.

If children learn from us then I think we have to ask what they learn from us when we spank them. I certainly don't want my daughter thinking that something she had done has caused her to "deserve" a physical punishment. In my opinion if a child is old enough to understand then you explain consequences, if they are too young to understand then they are too young to be hit anyways.

I get that a tap on the hand isn't the same as a spanking, I am not trying to condem anyone, I just personally don't get it. I don't have to make a conscious effort not to spank, it literally just doesn't enter my mind at all.