I haven't really thought about child punishment, all I know is that it's so annoying when young kids run around, or yell, or do anything they shouldn't be doing and the parents just say "...stop..." in almost a whisper. Then they let their little 2 year olds run around the place and they just walk behind them, staying right behind them, saying "come back! (to other people) lol sorry, he's a wild one, eh?" and the other people (like myself) are just like ">.> dude, really?"