I got spanked more than my brother and sister combined and my mom broke so many wooden spoons across my ass, she should've bought stock in the company that made them. Kinda funny right?
I use to think like you did Rhythm, "I might have to occasionally smack my kids". Until one day I decided to try to break one of those cheap wooden spoons on the padded armrest of my couch.
.....once I realized how hard I had to swing that spoon to actually break it - the gravity of that kind of punishment really overwhelmed me. I should not have received that kind of punishment as a child. My parents were wrong.
No, I'm not too terribly fucked up today, but that does not make me the poster child for the "success" of brutal punishment.
I use to think like you did Rhythm, "I might have to occasionally smack my kids". Until one day I decided to try to break one of those cheap wooden spoons on the padded armrest of my couch.
.....once I realized how hard I had to swing that spoon to actually break it - the gravity of that kind of punishment really overwhelmed me. I should not have received that kind of punishment as a child. My parents were wrong.
No, I'm not too terribly fucked up today, but that does not make me the poster child for the "success" of brutal punishment.