OK, now back when I was growing up it was perfectly OK for your parents to smack you if you acted up. Your parents could smack you with their hands or any number of objects. Back then you didn't sue your parents for this and the parents were not arrested for child abuse. This was just the way that your parents kept you in line and it was perfectly acceptable. I even remember getting smacked by the Vice Principle for something I did (probably smoking cigarettes).
Now I can honestly say that I don't recall getting smacked very often but I do recall the last time I got smacked. I was in the 6th grade and a friend of mine and I were sitting on top of the monkey bars during recess flicking matches at people. Yes, I know, not a very smart thing to do.
Anyway, we got in trouble at school for this and when my parents came home from work it was time for me to face the music. They called me down to the kitchen where my father bent me over his knee and.......WHAP! WHAP! WHAP WHAP! WHAP! WHAP! WHAP!
When it was finally over I ran upstairs to my bedroom in tears. I ended up staying there the rest of the night crying and being miserable and thinking how mean my parents were.
My friend? Well he was smarter than me and had been through this before. He wore about five pairs of underwear to cushion the blows (pretty smart kid I must say).
Anyway, that's the story of the last time I got smacked by my parents. I can honestly say that this did straighten me out for a good while and I toed the line in school after this (until I became a rebellious teenager).
Right or wrong? Well as I am in stores and restaurants and see kids acting up I can honestly say that more kids nowadays need to be smacked as well so that they can straighten up!
So there you have it. SAXOMAN says it's OK to smack your kids (within reason). HAHA!
It works. Me and a dumb friend were caught trying to steal some bikes out of a garage. The Viet-Nam vet who caught up to us had a crow bar. He bounced it off my side. I never stole anything again.
ReplyDeleteYes, it does work. You didn't hear about things like Columbine and all of those schools with metal detectors back in the day. I remember my brother and I were playing with matches in the back of the garage and almost burnt the garage down. My Mom caught us, and we were forced to go to the peach tree and get a switch! You know about those? You had to get a branch off of the tree. And it better not be small. And when my Dad came home, he took off his belt and let us have it too!
ReplyDeleteI have tried to tow the line ever since.
Jazzman