There is an old saying which was commonly used by our elders and it goes like this "Spare the rod and spoil the child". This old saying supports the act of giving punishment to kids and not praising them when they are doing something wrong. It supports using rod or cane or any other form of punishment to discipline the children. I understand that it's not always proper to use physical beating to train up a child all in the name of punishment, when the physical punishment becomes too much, it becomes a child abuse and it's punishable by law. There are so many other ways of giving punishments and disciplining of a child, you can easily ground the kid, take away his or her source of happiness. If it's the child's gaming console, take it away until he or she has learnt the lesson of the errors in his or her ways.