I learned a lot about physics by having to cut my own switch. Drag , surface area, etc..

After getting worked over with a peach tree limb/switch you could pass for a character in an Alex Haley novel....the T-post was probably better.....

Switches from a spirea bush would put red marks on bare legs that would stay there for a while. I am sure the time out crowd would consider that child abuse but they taught a valuable lesson.

IMO, a lot of the problems we have in society today stem from parents not instilling responsibility and consequences for actions. But child abuse and discipline are not one and the same.

All I'll say is thank God dad found Jesus, life was easier after that.

Libtards. Grrrr

My parents, my friends parents, my teachers (1st - 12th) would all be in prison, lol!!! Yeah, I didn’t stand and take a licking, I jumped a lot and the belt fell where it fell, butt, back, legs, etc, lol!!

Probably got that at least once a week. And sent to bed without supper. Maybe not fed for several days. But by golly, that's what made you into the man you are today! Or what have you.

Truth here, I got spanked with a small decorative canoe paddle at home. But nothing hurt like the 4 foot blackboard pointers they used at my school. And the school supt had a paddle with holes drilled in it. That didnt hurt much but it sounded terrifying. lol. I got my share of spankings and deserved most of them. I deserved others but didnt get caught. Spankings are ok, beatings are not.

Exact same scenario with me as well. However our school would make us sign our name on a line on an index card saying that we consent to getting a SWAT. In addition to our parents consent. I had so many SWATs that the end of my junior year my principal said this isn't working, if you get in trouble anymore it's Saturday detention. That was the last time I got in trouble.

When I graduated high school and walked across the stage to receive my diploma, the principal handed me something else. It was that index card. I had filled every line on it with my signature. Lol

Ol dad

I had so many swats growing up as a kid it's impossible to even guess the number. Most of them were with homemade paddles. I can remember squirming around in my dad having to try and hold me steady. I'm sure I probably got whacked on the lower back more than once. I don't know if I ever bruised cuz I couldn't look back there. But out of all the times that I got swats from at home or at school there is not one time that I ever felt like I was getting abused. I knew it was a consequence of making a bad choice, and those lessons have served me well.. I wouldnt have it any other way. There's no one else in the world that I have more respect for than my Dad.

Ol dad

LOL you scared them.

Similar story here Savell. Dad spanked me and I didn't really deserve it and I flipped him off and said F U. He caught me and had a 2x4 laying nearby... no regrets.

I found out at an early age that it was real bad for me to have a very healthy willow tree on the side of our country home. Each time I had some kind of disicpline due I had to go pick a green limb off that tree.

I learned real fast for those next bend over the work bench situations that came due, I started picking the dried out branches. Dad knew I was being a smart (blank) so I had to go get another one.

Don't ever pick those long green willow branches. They will sting and wrap around your little weasel body at that time about twice. I guess dad would have gone to jail also. I had all those beatings coming as I recall.

Here's some quick reading material from the Montana Code Annotated 45-3-107 for parents and school law for teacher's its 20-4-302

I don't know how to cut and paste these to this post so you'll have to do it yourself ha ha it's some interesting reading for parents with kids , smart parents make copies , then laminate them and keep copies handy in case they are needed to show a CPS person or police officer .

Heard on the news an 11 year old shot and killed his adoptive father because he took away the Nintendo as a punishment.

Good reason not to marry single mothers

This would all be for not if'n you kids would have just listened!

Quite the assumption. They could have adopted the child together, it wasn't necessarily hers biologically.

Yea, but I would think you could get quite the bargain.

Many guys use single mothers, with no plans of ever marrying one. Many men will use a woman they would never, ever marry. The more men a woman has been used by, the less likely any man will ever marry her.

Keith