MUMBAI: In a shocking reflection of poor parenting habits in the Maximum City , a survey has found that 62% of the parents said that they spank their child.The same survey was carried out in 2012 when 69% of the respondents had accepted to spanking and smacking their child.The survey , which covered 1,700 parents in Mumbai, revealed that a higher number of mothers hit their kids as compared to fathers. Of the total respondents who said they hit children, 29% were fathers and 61% were mothers.Among the mothers who admitted to hitting kids, only 9% were stay-at-home mothers as compared to 62% in the 2012 survey.The survey was carried out by Bornsmart, a parenting organization.According to the survey , over 80% of the parents who admitted to spanking their children were beaten as children themselves.“Repeating parenting patterns of your parents plays a major role in spanking children. When you are beaten as a child, you tend to display the same behaviour,“ said Swati Popat Vats, an expert from Bornsmart team and the president of the Early Childhood Association.The most common reasons cited by parents for using spanking to discipline a child were that they were not able to control the children, frustrations and tiredness and because it works with the children.The survey also revealed that children between the age of two and eight years of age were spanked most often and those between the age of eight and ten years were threatened with discontinuing pocket money, or of being sent to boarding school.“The more this kind of discipline (smacking and spanking) is used, more the primitive brain is active, thus the thinking brain or the smart brain is not active,“ said Vats.