I'm going to smack the shit out of my 8-year-old nephew for stealing hundreds of dollars of my Pokemon cards and taking some of them to school and trading with them. Can you believe he'd do that?
Why would you be so mean?
Because he took hundreds of dollars of my Pokemon cards and I'm pissed.
I understand your anger, but you gotta remember he's 8 years old. There's no need for violence.
He's going to learn a valuable lesson and you shouldn't talk to me like that. He needs to learn that stealing is wrong. I'm sending him to boarding school anyway.
Hitting him isn't going to teach him anything other than to expect pain when he makes a mistake.