Learning with Kindness

Children can learn with kindness and don't need beatings to make them bend to your will. I wish I could find all those people who hurt children and teach them there are alternatives that take work but their children deserve the effort. What if they don't listen? I fear that the anger in my heart towards those who hit the defenseless is hard to control. I know there is a balance and I need to fight anger with kindness but I have too many memories of my brother and I suffering under the physical torture that adults called "discipline". I know with ever fiber of my being that hitting a child is wrong and at least I can practice this kindness with my own children.