(July 21, 2016 at 7:50 pm)Thena323 Wrote:(July 21, 2016 at 5:48 pm)Godschild Wrote:
Wow. Hard to tell if you happened to be exceptionally mature and/or perceptive as a child, or if you were just broken down. As a child, my mother in particular put a lot of effort into breaking me of my "willful ways". Clearly, it never took.
Mature no, if I had been I wouldn't have been as bad as I was. Perceptive maybe, I knew that getting rid of those little barbs on the switch meant less pain and maybe I did have my parents figured out to some degree to know which one would bring the most pain for certain bad behavior. Not always though I remember choosing dad and regretting the choice on occasion. Broken down never I knew my parents loved me deeply they would tell me that often and show it every day in the way we lived our lives as a family. Don't feel sorry for me I'm fine with my childhood and wouldn't change a thing, it's a part of my life that has made me who I am today.
Thena323 Wrote:I was spanked more than my other siblings combined, and more harshly...though to be fair, I was the only one who had to be chased for an extended period of time, in order to be spanked. By the time she actually caught up with me, she'd be furious.I ran from my mom once and made a mistake of doing it in front of friends, she caught me fairly quickly and it took some time to live that down, man she was fast.
"Stop running, so I can beat you senseless!"
"I'm sorry, I can't! It's counterintuitive!"
Never ran from my Pop, though.
He'd just swat our palms with the belt a few times, and be done with it.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
