Hit me once shame on you...

As a child I never understood the concept, "this is going to hurt me more than it is you." when it came to being discipline. Parents tend to correct their children in the same manners as they were corrected so most of the time 99% of parents are too lazy, stupid or just plain out ignorant when it comes to change. Sound a little to harsh? Maybe, but then again let's take a hard look at where we really are with the correction factor of our children's behavior. From where I sit in 2013 understanding how to discipline your child should be rather easy, but of course I'm wrong.
When a parent harms a child not only physically, but emotionally as well as mentally, the scars left behind probably will never heal. What we learn as children we often times carries over into our adulthood. That's a shame for the majority of us in our society.
We have rules for every possible situation that you can think of including having to have tags and registration  for our pets, The state law requires a license to drive any vehicle, sale alcohol, own and operate a beauty parlor, as well as having to have permits and licenses for every business that we can image. We have to have social security numbers when we have a child and even give up personal information to own anything.
How is it then that we fail at a larger rate, or so it seems to protect our children from un-natural parenting. Do we offer classes for good parenting, teach our young society not to hit, abuse and forsake our children. Are we really nurturing our innocent off spring. If the answer is no, then what are we doing?
I believe in the golden rule, Do unto others as you would have me do unto you? So why can't we get this right. Hit me once, shame on you, hit me twice, shame on me? What if you are a new born? How about a  child in preschool, kindergarten, middle school, okay high school? When is it okay to hit a child of any age and what are we passing on to those children about violence?
It is a harsh reality that nothing seems to change in our world. We want peace, but can't find it. We want people to be kind, but don't act that way, we ask for humanity, but do not extend our fairness to anyone.
 So the question remains the same,as adults are we the example by which our children we grow into strong, good and kind people?
Perhaps we should take a closer look at ourselves and then scream at the top of our lungs, " Hit me once, shame, shame, shame on you."
What kind of example are you setting? Who are we fooling?