In your opinion. If you're against it completely then please ignore. For those who do discipline their children or believe it's effective. Do you think a 8/9 month baby should be disciplined? In this instance I'm referring to a spank on the hand or bottom when they've done something wrong.

Update

To clarify this isn't a method I'm using or agree with. I am trying to another perspective on it and show my partner that this is not okay. Each to their own - I just know I am not comfortable with this and will not sit back and allow this to happen to my daughter.

So you have an understanding of the situation, I'll explain. My daughter keeps pulling her dad's glasses off and instead of him telling her no and explaining that she can't take off his glasses and possibly directing her attention elsewhere. He decided it was a good idea to hit her on her hand which I thought was wrong, then she persisted so he thought okay I'm going to smack her on the bottom. She started to cry and then put her arms out for me to hold her. I was and still am disgusted by this behaviour, I was so angry but I didn't want to discuss infront of my daughter. I put her to sleep and cake back down to talk to him. He didn't see anything wrong with it since he didn't hit her hard, I explained she doesn't understand and I didn't want her to grow up scared 'of the person hitting her'. It was like talking to a brick wall, I also shared a snippet of my past and how my dad's methods of discipline destroyed our relationship.

I didn't even raise my voice or shout, I said it so calmly and afterwards I had an early night to gather my thoughts. The next day my daughter persisted and tried to grab his classes and he thought it was a good idea to shout "No'' which was of course ineffective. He seems to be adamant she understands him, if she understood then she'd know he was annoyed and respond to it. But guess what?? She's just a baby!!!!