Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
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.
I got spanked at least three or four times (maybe more times that I've forgotten). The one time that sticks in my mind was when I turned the thermostat up to 95 degrees. My dad told us that could burn the house down.
Dunno - maybe that was true. That was a 110 year old house when we finally tore it down....
That was a 110 year old house when we finally tore it down....
Seems like an awful waste of manpower when all you had to do was crank the heat.
Michael Jackson hasn't been in the news for a while....
Michael Jackson 'becomes a Muslim and changes name to Mikaeel'
Hold up! Michael Jackson is 50?!? Crap. That's really shocking to me for some reason. Holy cow.
I was spanked as a child. I can't say that it taught me to hit, but I can see the connection. And I'm sure that some children would make that connection at a young age, I just know that I didn't.
I was spanked as a child and it taught me that bigger people can do what they want to you, but that doesn't make them right. Think in terms of correcting my behavior it was a wash, too - I got more stubborn and rebellious.
That said, I have smacked Casper on the butt in anger. Not calculatedly, though. Is that better, or worse?
it taught me that bigger people can do what they want to you, but that doesn't make them right.
I got that from the phrase, "because I said so" and "because I'm the mom, that's why." Heh.
Hold up! Michael Jackson is 50?!? Crap. That's really shocking to me for some reason. Holy cow.
Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson -- all the same age, which wasn't so surprising 20 years ago, but 50 looks pretty different on each one of them now...
Puppy bumper cars!!!
Spanking was still "okay" in the early 60s when I was a kid. My mom was not the tough one in the family. My dad did spank us (although not very painfully--it always seemed as if it was for show) as children. He also clouted us on the back of the head a few times, which was painful. I will say that the clouts were always after we did something REALLY bad, so they weren't surprises.
When we grew up he apologized to each of us and I know he deeply regretted it. He was beaten a lot as a kid and although he was a million times better parent than his parents, I know he wished he had never lost his temper with us. Because it happened so infrequently, it never made any of us afraid of him or of authority.
My brothers have never hit spanked any of their kids.