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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's only hard in this country where parents coddle their kids and any form of discipline becomes liable in the eyes of CPS. It's one of the reasons why DH and I are moving back to my home country where people don't have these hang-ups.[/quote]

You mean you want to smack your kid around?[/quote]

Not the PP, but it is more accepted to have some type of physical punishment.  My mom is Italian (as in she came to the US as an adult, 4 years after she married my dad).  I’m an only child.  My parents never spanked me, I was a good kid thought.  I was very outspoken and disagreed with my parents openly about certain things and they respected me and enjoyed debating with me. But I’ll never forget when I was 14 I wanted to go to a sleepover. My parents didn’t allow those.  I got so mad I yelled at my mom and told her she was an evil bit$&.  My mom slapped me so hard that my head went all the way to one side.  I had her handprint on my cheek and a bruise. Then she calmly said that if I ever spoke like that to my father or to her again that I would deeply regret it.  My sweet, soft spoken mom terrified me that day.  I never spoke her that way again though.  I have grown kids of my own now and we have laughed about that day in retrospect.  She told me that she thought hitting a child was counterproductive, but there were exceptions to every rule.  That was the one and only time my mom hit me and it worked.[/quote]

I have just about the same story, except my language was worse and my mom is from Brooklyn.  First and only slap.[/quote]

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