This is a great thread.

I was just reading one of the BB articles on smacking and remembered a scenario from when I was a kid (I don't have kids yet).

I used to have great difficulty in controlling the urge to hit my younger siblings (yupp, I was smacked a LOT as a child, although mum will tell you I deserved it ) so for a while there, whenever they were annoying me and I got the urge to lash out, I'd tickle them instead. It's hard to stay mad when everyone's laughing.