After watching the latest episode where a child was hit, I was horrified. I feel parenting has come a long way and would be rare for any child to be subjected to being hit. As a professional childcare provider, yes children can be challenging and will not always do what you ask them, but you know how to mange this situations and they never involve hitting a child.  If an adult hit another adult this would be classed as asult, the same should apply to and adult hitting a child.