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Tracy ,'The Message'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2007 6:23:20 am PST #473 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2007 6:57:46 am PST #474 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Random question: Who here got spanked by their parents? ::raises hand:: Not too often, though. The last time was probably when I was eight-ish.
How common is it for parents to spank their kids these days?
Frankenbuddha - Nov 05, 2007 7:01:17 am PST #475 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Raises hand.
Grade school would have been the last time. Ironically enough, probably for fighting.
sumi - Nov 05, 2007 7:01:33 am PST #476 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I did too. Can't recall how old I was last time it happened.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2007 7:03:13 am PST #477 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I was in first grade, it was just after the school had set a policy of no spanking. My teacher was bitter about it - she blamed parents for being too lawsuit-happy.
She had a paddle that she used to use for spanking - it was called "Heat for the Seat."
shrift - Nov 05, 2007 7:03:50 am PST #478 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'd get a swat every once in a while, and I totally deserved it. After age 8 or so, my parents used the very effective guilt trip method of behavioral adjustment rather than spanking.
Kat - Nov 05, 2007 7:05:41 am PST #479 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I was spanked as a kid. Maybe 2 or 3 times. But we were threatened with it more often than it happened.
I don't have a stance on spanking as a parent.
Hayden - Nov 05, 2007 7:09:54 am PST #480 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
We occasionally spank Li'l Sphere when he disrespects the time out, but "spank" for us means "a light pat on a diapered hiney," which generally does the job of embarrassing him enough that he prefers the time out.
For my dad, "spanking" involved belts across bare skin, and those probably ran until I was 11. That's not going to happen with us. From what I gather about my dad's upbringing, he thought he was going easy on us.
Steph L. - Nov 05, 2007 7:15:12 am PST #481 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
After age 8 or so, my parents used the very effective guilt trip method of behavioral adjustment rather than spanking.
We never got spanked, though we certainly deserved it. My mom, however, was really REALLY good at the psychological-pain type of behavioral adjustment, so she didn't need to spank.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 05, 2007 7:15:57 am PST #482 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was spanked as a kid, but not often enough for it to be memorable, and not hard (but more than a swat). I did have my mouth washed out with soap when I was 15 or 16 for calling my mother a bitch.