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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was little my mother spanked me.  Maybe just once or twice.  But she would refer to it for years later as a fear tactic to get me to stop whatever behavior she was objecting to.  it was one of the things that poisoned our relationship.  I remember thinking that one day I would be bigger than her.  And one day I was and that wasn't a tool that she had any more.

[b]My father never spanked me.  One day, after a nasty fight with my mother over something or other (I was 4 or 5), my father came home and my mother told him to take me in the other room and give me a spanking.  So he took me in the other room and shut the door.  He took off his belt and laid me across his knee.  Then he put his hand over my bottom and whipped it.  To my mother it must have sounded like a pretty good whipping.  He stood me up and showed me his hand, which was red.  "See how your behavior hurts your father?"  I loved my father more than anything and that stuck with me.  It's one of my very earliest memories.  More effective than any spanking could have ever been.[/b]

My father and I were best friends for many, many years.  I knew that not only would he never hurt me but he would take the pain for me if necessary.[/quote]

This is why people need to post this stuff. You have actually changed my perspective on this. Thank you for sharing this.[/quote]

See, if this story had ended with the poster saying "I knew that not only would he never hurt me but also that I never wanted to hurt him.." THEN I would think that his parenting had instilled a great lesson. Instead, the little girl learned, I've got my dad wrapped around my finger.

Note, my kids are too young for me to know if I'll ever spank. I hope not to but I did have to yell once in the last few weeks and it was awful (scared them and me) but they also haven't done that dangerous thing since.[/quote]

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