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...e or eight or ten sharp taps from a wooden brush hairbrush.” Being hit eight to ten times with a wooden brush would be traumatizing for a nine-year-old girl. Hitting your child is not the only answer to punishing your kids, and some parents find that hard to believe. Though on the parents defense, it is most likely the most effective. M.F.K. Fisher goes on to say in her essay, “Rex gave me a slap across the side of my head that sent me halfway across the room against the old sideboard.” Even though M.F.K. Fisher did do something wrong, no one that can’t defend themselves properly deserves to get hit in the face so hard, they fly halfway across the room. Every parent wants to teach their children to be good kids and one day, be responsible, successful adults. All parents teach their children the way they think they should be taught, and some parents think abuse is the answer. A lot of kids who are abused now, come from families with abuse in the past, much like in M.F.K. Fishers essay. Parents need to know how traumatizing being hit as a child can be and also realizing that abusing your child at a young age can cause more serious problems down the road. Many kids who are abused as children have critical emotional-problems, or are abusing their children when they have them. With these facts, we now know that physical abuse is a mental, hereditary drug,...