haha tangent. Yes but you are on topic!

I was spanked as a child, though not very often. It was reserved for when I had really done something wrong. More often than not I was sent to my room without supper. But my room was not like kid's rooms today. I did not have a tv, no games, just my bed, some books and a few toys (ones that I usually didn't play with) so being sent to my room really was a punishment, not a vacation.

My dad only had to spank me once. After that, all he had to do was "give me the look." My mom even broke a wooden spoon over my butt but that was when I got mad and stomped in one of my drawers and busted out the bottom. Not that she hit me hard it was just an old spoon.

Now what gets me is that people will call child services on you if they find out you spank your children.

For example. My dad was in the grocery store at the checkout behind this man and his little girl. The little girl was throwing a temper tantrum in the store. Finally having had enough, the father smacked her on her bum, not hard, but just hard enough to let his daughter know that enough was enough. She stopped. When he left the store, the cashier phoned child services! If I were my father, I would have told her to mind her own business!