I probably made this comment in the earlier thread. If so, it bears repeating:
Whenever someone tells me, 'I got spanked as a kid, and it didn't do ME any harm' my go-to response is always, 'Of course it did you harm - it taught you that it's OK to hit children.'
My parents had seven children, and none of us was EVER hit, not once, not for anything. That isn't to say my parents didn't discipline us, just that they were a helluva lot more creative than bum-swats.
Boru
Whenever someone tells me, 'I got spanked as a kid, and it didn't do ME any harm' my go-to response is always, 'Of course it did you harm - it taught you that it's OK to hit children.'
My parents had seven children, and none of us was EVER hit, not once, not for anything. That isn't to say my parents didn't discipline us, just that they were a helluva lot more creative than bum-swats.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
