I've Never Hit My Children With a Wooden Scoop

I don't discipline my children in a physical way. I will physically remove someone if they're throwing a fit and just bring them away. Thomas Aquinas actually makes a case for why you can hit kids in the summer. And he says because they're like brute beasts who don't have reason. So there's got to be some way of communicating. This was wrong or we don't do this.