but sometimes it just makes you feel better

Sorry, but I take offense at the accusation that children should be beaten for thier own good

somehow you have the idea of spanking confused with abuse and beating

spanking children has worked just fine for the last 10,000 years

Yeah, but it's not strange to hear kids tell their parents they love them from inside a jail cell because when they were younger all they got was a time out and felt they could get the same thing when they got older. You speaking from personal experience or something?

it's one thing to hold a personal opinion/preference. it's another thing to accuse people of abusing their children.

exactly, especially when NO ONE was suggesting that.

anyways...

I doubt you meant for this thread to get so intense


when I was a kid and we would go on long drives. I would hold my finger about a half inch from my sister's face and say "I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you"

and she would yell "Mom!! Robins not touching me again"

and she would yell "Stop not touching you're sister!!"

and of course I wouldn't stop not touching her so my Dad would pull over and I would get a spanking for not touching my sister

Way to calm the thread down man. Sorry Jasmine. I did get the blame for everything when I was younger. My siblings still try to do it..lol

I didn't realize I was responsible for locking down your thread with a comment that I thought was truly funny as hell. Who suggests that people take up the enterprise of writing fortune cookies. I thought it was hilarious. Especially when much nastier things have been said to me, I thought it was turnabout fairplay. I truly however, had no intentions of locking your thread, I'm new and it was the first time I saw it happen. Believe me, I wouldn't try for anything to hinder you expressing yourself. As far as the remarks about children being beat, I do have a tendency to go overboard as I was abused as a child,both mentally and physically,and have issues to this day about it. I'm sorry I came off like a jerk today. Please accept my humblest apologies.

So was I. Severely.

I got over my issues with that particular deal.

My daughter got spanked, by me, a grand total of 3 times.

Those were instances where I deemed it necessary.

In NO way was she abused or neglected or anything of that sort.

aww geez.

i'm sorry i implied that you were solely responsible for locking my other thread. that's not the case. it was a collective effort i'm told. i'm not in the best of moods at the moment for reasons which have nothing to do with that or this.

please accept my apologies as well.

First of all, good luck to you man. I had great parents who punished us, sometimes with spankings, sometimes just grounding us. I love my parents, and I just think that, as a former hard headed young man who always got in trouble, I'm thankful to be able to take care of myself with a decent job, respect people and carry myself in a good way (so I'm told), and not be in jail. I feel that my parents being tough on me in a loving way molded me. I'm truthfully sorry that you were abused, and I kinda regret even talking about "whippings" in this thread. No matter how you were trying to come off, you're right in saying that abusive parents take it to a whole other level, and are very abusive. I've read post from you before and you're pretty funny in other threads so everything's cool with me.

i guess we're all in the same boat on that issue.

Lol... lots of times. My mom came to visit me once and so I straightened up the apartment and burned some sage. She walked in and FREAKED out because she swore she smelled weed. It took a long conversations, lots of tears, and burning the sage again for her to convince her otherwise! I got fired from a job at a spa that way once too. I needed a day off but couldn't find a replacement. The weekend manager gave me the day off anyway and crossed me off the schedule. Two day's later, the weekday manager called and fired me for abandoning my shift! It's just one of those sad facts of life we all must endure at some point.

yup, you have my sympathy and empathy

I only thought I was abused

all my life they kept telling me to save my soul

and then once in Church the preacher said "the Lord wants your soul"

and I yelled out "No way!! I'm savin it"

the preacher just looked at my Dad and I thought "Oh Crap"

he grabbed me by the back of the neck and marched me down the aisle to the foyer and took off his belt. I got three good whacks and marched back up the aisle sniffling.

THEN the preacher resumed his sermon. Worse, the preacher was my grandfather. Even worst was all the snickering behind their hands from the other church people laughing at me

I guess the point being that some kids earn their spankings and I was one

Hmmm, lettttt's see....if I pick that one, they're gonna send me right back out here....

That one'll break my spine....

Walk on your heels. Save your sole.

AMEN!! Usually the parents that won't spank their children are the ones who have the brats. HMMM go figure

HMM do you know the difference between a beating and a spanking? If not, I hope you do not have any children. A spanking is done out of love to teach your children how to become respectful adults and to teach them how to lead a productive life. Do you want your children not to be taught the rules of life and end up in jail?