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Did any of you ever get slapped as a child?

Infernal Racket · 2019-07-13 15:28:34

Just wondering how many of you got slapped as a child. I did, by my mother who had hands like leather from years of working outdoors. I never ever got slapped for no reason and never got slapped around the head or face. I got reprimanded for doing wrong and when I did I learned not to do the wrong thing again. Always got…

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#272 25-07-2019 09:28AM

juneg

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I didn't slap my kids when they were small. I definitely waved the wooden spoon around though!
It's just as well because now they are teens. What would I do now if I had relied on slapping them as a discipline method for all those years? I could hardly be having fisticuffs with six foot lads now!!
One thing they often threw at me was "I'm not afraid of you" to which I'd say. I don't want you to be afraid of me. No answer to that really.

I'm the adult and you're the child is a phrase that has always worked well for me and still does.

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