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[quote=Anonymous]wondering if I'm right to think my mom's comment was weird. we were talking about disciplining young kids (I have a 1 year old who is my first child, so I'm just figuring all of that out). The topic of spanking came up, and my mom said she only spanked me once, and that it was when I was still in diapers. She said she regretted it. Fine. It's not like I remember it; I really don't care that it happened.

The weird part was that she then said: "For years afterwards--until you were 8 or 9--you would bring it up, like you were trying to remind me that I wasn't the great mom I maybe thought I was. I think you got perverse pleasure out of bringing it up around other people, like you wanted to show them that I wasn't a good mom."

I think my mom is a really good mother. She can definitely be intense, but I think she tried really hard and made good decisions. I told her I don't think I'd ever try to get perverse pleasure out of advertising something she regrets. She insisted that that was my motivation. Who knows -- I don't remember ever bringing it up. Maybe I was a screwed up kid, and just don't remember it. In any case, the whole conversation struck me as weird.

I'm not planning on bringing it up to her or anything. Just was wondering if I'm offbase in my feelings about this conversation.[/quote]

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