Splinter's use of punishments

[Jelly Bean]

I'm sort of stealing this from another thread from the general section about the use of spanking of children as a form of punishment and whether it is right or not. And some how the turtles got dragged into it. So I thought I'd bring it over here. Splinter is very much the authoritarian and he doesn't think twice about wacking the turtles when they step out of line, so he is definately old school. But when the turtles where just kids do you think he used corporal punishmnet on them, like whacking them in the head with his cane or do you think he spanked them instead when they got out of line, if he did spank them at what age do think he stopped spankings as punishment and switched over to uses his cane on their head? In the episode the Lesson he seemed much stricter and tough when dealing with the boys. D

Do you guys even agree that he still uses his cane to to hit them to punish them as teens.