Originally Posted by ronaldo

Oh man. By today's standards I was abused as a child. I remember dreading my dad coming home if I'd done something wrong because I knew damn well I was gonna get a spanking. A couple of times with a leather belt and once my mom broke a wooden spoon on my ass. I don't agree with their methods 100%, but again, I believe I'm a better person for it.

With OUR kids, my wife was totally against spanking, while I was for it WITH an open handed swat on their bare ass. Not too hard, but enough for them to feel it and know what they did was wrong. Eventually she relented and agreed a couple of swats wasn't gonna do them any harm.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've spanked each kid, but I GUARANTEE you, that I felt WAY worse than they did. The key thing that we do that my parents didn't do, was shortly thereafter went into their room and explain WHY they got spanked and why we felt it was necessary.

I remember the last time I spanked my son. He was being brave not wanting to cry, but the look on his face, after I left the room I had tears in my eyes.