One of the anomalies of the Jehovah's Witness worldview is that it "carries" its non-violence hand-in-hand with some fairly violent practices towards its young ones. So, the Jehovah's Witness father or mother who would reject any involvement in the military or "turn the other cheek" if physically attacked in field service, has no qualms about yanking their noisy child out of the Kingdom Hall and giving that child a good thrashing (i.e., beating on the buttocks, legs, arms and back) and creating an even greater noise.
I am not a parent, but over the years of observing parents - and others - hitting children both inside and outside the kingdom hall, it slowly occurred to me just what a barbaric practice this was. It seemed the only advice the Watchtower had for harried parents (and their children) was "Discipline the kid" if he disobeys you. Totally ignoring other ways of dealing with restless and noisy children, it became standard practice for the parent to whisk the "offending" child out of an often hot and stuffy kingdom hall, followed by either loud or muffled sounds outside of the child getting hit.
Yes, some of that parenting style was a product of its time (i.e., when it was more widely accepted that good parenting involved physically striking the child). But the relative ease with which children were subjected to this - and from some accounts still are - strikes me as anomalous in a group that claims to be enlightened by the "truth". Coming from a group that, in most other respects, condemns violence, it is all the more noteworthy. Funny, most of us on this fourm live in seculat societies that, for the large part, have very clear legislation against adults hitting other adults but children, our most vulnerable members of (secular) society are at the mercy of their parents. The parents, in turn, are at the mercy of a religion that robustly defends the parents' right to physically hit their children for "misbehaving" during meetings - meetings that greatly challenge even the "grownups" to sit still and pay attention.
What are others' views on this practice of hitting children to get them to sit still and pay attention during KH meetings?