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"haha, I remember, on one occassion, laughing at my mother while she was spanking me...not a great idea, looking back."

Oh I did this a couple of a times too. That is the absolute worst thing you could do.

9/16/2014 6:23:44 PM

yep and I needed it. I was a jackass as a kid.

9/16/2014 6:41:45 PM

Yeah, I got spankings.

Mom would use her hand.

Dad, his belt.

Grandmother....well, she had an arsenal. The normal tool was a metal spatula, or as she called it, a "pancake turner". But if I really fucked up, she would say "go outside and get me a switch so I can wear your ass out". She meant get a branch from the willow tree in her back yard. Ladies and gentlemen, there are far fewer demeaning things than having to go fetch your own beating instrument. I mean, that's like....a watered down version of Jesus Christ having to carry his own crucifix.



Of course, after age 6 or 7, a spanking won't really work in my opinion. You would need to hit the kid too hard after a certain age for it to be considered a punishment, and at that point, your abusing your kid.

[Edited on September 16, 2014 at 6:59 PM. Reason : K]

9/16/2014 6:57:11 PM

bullshit, a switch will get your damn attention.

I learned once as a teenager that even though I was bigger than my dad, I wasn't more of a man than he was. I stepped up to him once and he was like "you gonna come at me like a man, I'm gonna fight you like a man" and promptly knocked me the fuck out after he ducked my not-such-a-good-idea swing for a punch.

yeah, that got my attention.

9/16/2014 8:39:48 PM

Yeah. So....like I said, after a certain age in order for corporal punishment to be an effective punitive measure (it needing to hurt bad enough to be effective), you would have to be abusing the child by beating the shit out of them.

9/16/2014 8:47:09 PM