little kids and there parents

ok so i am sick of little kid and how they act. like the other day i was at the shop and i there was a mum with three kids all between 4-8. so there little kids were running crazy trowing things off shelves, pushing each other and shouting. now what i would have done (and how the problem should have been handled) is hit the kids across the ass and tell them to stop. now what was done is she knelt down do the kids level and asked the in a weird polite but stressed voice "can you pleas stop" the kid replied by hitting her across the face. now what i would have done is hit him back. but what she done is say in that odd voice "that was not nice" the kid then stomped off. when she court him she then told him "if you behave i will by you a present" the kid said no then the mother said "i will buy you a big present". so if you kid is miss behaving you do not offer the gifts it ends with them thinking the way they are behaving is right. this is just one example of kid and there parents. i don't blame the kids as much as i blame the parents. what parents don't realize is that the threat of pain works better the pain so if you hit them hard once the threat will work better then really hitting them.