I gotta say this tho... I caught some beatings over the years. Very over-the-top, aggression from outside shit, & rage filled, ...."abusive", but that really sounds like a pansy word coming from a man raised by a woman, but that woman could hit, with various objects....
anyways, I got boys & vowed I wouldnt discipline like my mom did.
they aint ever, EVER gotten a beating with an inanimate object & never will.
if your words & methods of discipline do not work as a parent, it is the PARENT doing something wrong.... no kid deserves an electrical cord used on them as a beating device.