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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (99419)	3/24/2005 4:34:11 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

My dad used to whip me with a belt when I was really bad, but I think in total it came to maybe 8 or 10 whippings in my lifetime, I was a good kid. Once I stopped crying when he whipped me with the belt I guess he concluded there was no point to it. There really wasn't much pain associated with it ... there isn't enough leverage in a belt to cause any serious pain, it is more the feeling of extreme disapproval that was the punishment. My best friend in elementary school had a step-father who used to paddle him, many many whacks. Imo that was real abuse. Richard was terrified of getting into trouble at school on account of what would happen at home. At the time I was too young to realize how terrible it was that he should have to go through this. His step-father ended up in jail for marijuana smuggling. Me and Richard met when we were both older and his life seemed to be going in the right direction. It was a shame that our teachers didn't recognize the abuse he had gone through and done something to stop it. Imo the "spanking" debate is pretty useless. I object to the very term "spanking." When I was a kid if you had threatened to "spank" me I would have laughed in your face. If a teacher or principal had threatened the same I would have laughed in his/her face. We can talk about the merits of whipping, paddling, whatever but "spanking" is not even worth discussing. If a boy, whatever his age may be, is afraid of a "spanking," then I think when he grows up there will be very little that he is not afraid of.