Appreciate the vote of confidence, but I was a force to be reckoned with in my younger days.

I constantly remind my middle girl that baby boy of her's will be bigger than her sooner than she thinks. If she can't that son in law had better do it. Love my grand babies but they know daddy mac don't play. Fortunately the girls don't need much to put the fear of God into them. Only one tried me and she was shocked when grandad showed up at school to deal with her nonsense, that was first grade and she's been no trouble at school since.

I don’t spank my kids, but if anyone’s going to spank them it’s going to be me. Any Aunt or Uncle spanking my kids would get laid out immediately.

…. Light their butts up

Never spanked mine. I like to think I'm smart enough to find another way to get them to behave without spanking them. BTW my kid is one of the kindest, smartest most polite people you'll ever meet.

… boy I’ll ride up there and spank you

I got the belt several times , mouth washed with soap ext. my kid got a belt once. I agree make it memorable, he was about 9. Good from then on. My two daughters are raising there kids opposite of each other, the one that don’t spank I hardly ever see, the one who disciples there kids I see more often. Completely different kids. Both my daughters had a teacher who still paddled kids.

wws

you know the numbers for kids staying out of prison are almost identical.if you have 2 parents or if you live with your dad.

but if you live with your mom only your chances of prison are much higher statistically

clearly it has a lot more to do with how your mother raises you but the reality is women who take the kind of responsibility to raise the kids right are in a real minority to the ones who have a new babydaddy every couple years

you want a scarry number , sexual assaults on a minor is wildly higher if the mother has a live in boy friend.

I was raised in a pretty tight knit community where everyone was like family. Act up in the neighbors yard you got a whoopin and sent home for one for acting the fool in front of the neighbors.

I still remember one from grandfather Smith, no blood relation just what we all called him because he was the grandfather of one of our playmates. He told me to hit the road so I walked out into the middle of the street and smacked the asphalt. I can still hear leather clearing belt loops, lol.

BTW, my younguns knew exactly what I meant when I would tell their friends' parents to treat them just like one of their own. I didn't say that to all because if I couldn't say that, then they didn't have that one as a friend.

I got a few over the years. The last one was the most memorable:

Steve and I had got into some mischief and dad told me that Steve's dad had called to relate the mischief and the fact that Steve got his arse blistered for it. Dad asked me if I thought I also deserved the same fate. ...Well I could see where this was leading and really just preferred to get past the psychological BS and get it over with. So dad goes on to say that giving me a spanking really hurts him more than me. I'm just thinking quit talking and let's just get it over with...I'm already starting to get a little weepy in anticipation. Next thing that dad said blows my mind:

He hands me the kindling stick (the usual instrument of my destruction) and tells me this time I'm to give HIM the spanking so that I know how it feels to be on that end of it. My mind has a hard time grasping that notion, but dad insists that I administer the spanking and bends over like I used to be instructed to do and asks for the beating. So I give a few half hearted whacks. Dad yells HARDER! HARDER! So I go a little harder. HARDER HARDER!!!!!! he screams so I start flat out wailing at his backside. Then I just crumbled to the ground in spasms of grief and despair cuz I was all weirded out. I'm crying my eyeballs out.

Then dad gets prone again and says: "Now you know how it feels to be me when I have to administer punishment for your foolishness".

Last spanking. Beaverpeeler.... age 12.

Its easier to spank your son than your daughter. I did spank both. Trust me, they got off easy compared to what I grew up with. I will not ridicule parents that spank, whip, or just flat out Bust that Arse!

Becuse the liberals are always trying to make scripture out to say something it clearly does not. Like everything else they do people get fed up with anything thats even remotely close. Rember your t man welcome for example by simple using the antis terms not knowing any better and....

Yes there are a lot of ways to interpret scripture. But if you want insight first you have to read what was before and after what your breaking down to get context. Then you need to remember it was written for jews a few thousand years ago and things that were common knowledge and significance in their culture is ofter not taken into account. How do you interpret scripture you let scripture interpret scripture. Sometimes you have to go back to the Hebrew . Words had more than one meaning. Love for example could be romantic love, fatherly/ family, maybe love of a great friend. All the same word each a very different meaning. Find the word and maybe it was use 26 times in the Bible and look how it was used in each instance and the culture and how it was used in what your breaking down. . Again in a culture 2000 years ago thing that are comon and well know and clear to everyone takes some time to break down by us today. Im far from a biblical scholar more of a k first grade level and have always been amazed how much there is and how long you can spend breaking down just a sentence or two.

I do not have any kids but I remember I got spanked a couple times as a kid growing up. I learned I didn't like it so I behaved. Funny how that works out. Too many parents want to be a friend instead of a parent and you can tell there's a lot of that going on now days.

There's a big difference in discipline and abuse. A lot of kids need a few cracks on their behinds and the parents need a few cracks along side their heads as well for allowing their kids to be little aholes.

That's just fine if you raise your own kids, don't drop them off at grandma's 25% of the time and expect her to have to deal with their foolishness because mom and dad won't.

What are they gonna do, get mad and not bring their brat kid over?

That's a great story Beaver Peeler.

I have three kids. 3, 2, and 9 months. The three yr old boy needs 3 or 4 a day. It's like he's not happy unless he gets them. I hate it like your Dad must have. He responds to nothing but a spanking and if Mom gives it to him says it doesn't hurt and laughs at her. We take things away, stand him in the corner, nothing works but a spanking. My two year old girl has had one. All we do is talk to her and she's fine. My wife stays home all day with them. She's awesome but the boy is just getting out of control sometimes. i have talks with him and he says he will try to be good and that's great and I know he's only 3 so I can't expect much.

I got spanked a lot- I should have been spanked more. As a dad I think it has to be done like the Bible says. I just hate doing it- I might have to try your Dad's idea Beaver Peeler later when he might get it.

Yeah, but you better hurry up before he is big enough to swing the paddle too hard...Lol

I agree with this. Ben is an outstanding young man, despite who his father is.

Gentle parenting works great on gentle kids.

Thank you Dad for whoppin' me when I deserved it.
It made me become a man and set me in the right direction when I strayed.
Hurt my pride more than it hurt my butt.
Taught me right from wrong when my brain couldn't or wouldn't set me in the right direction.
I love you!