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Chula Vista · 10-28-2016, 03:04 PM

Last time I spanked my daughter was when she was maybe 7. Her and her younger brother (around 2-ish) were outside having ice cream on the picnic table. He was standing on it while she was sitting. I guess he was bugging her because she gave him a shove. For a split second he was teetering on the edge and she reached up and gave him another shove so he'd fall off. He was crying but ok - could have easily busted and arm or dislocated a shoulder.

That was so over the top bad that she got a few whacks and was sent to her room. By dinnertime everything was fine and she kept apologizing to Mike.

FTR: I was beaten regularly as a kid. Like pretty badly in some really nasty ways. And you can attest to how perfectly I survived it.

10-28-2016, 03:04 PM	#594 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Last time I spanked my daughter was when she was maybe 7. Her and her younger brother (around 2-ish) were outside having ice cream on the picnic table. He was standing on it while she was sitting. I guess he was bugging her because she gave him a shove. For a split second he was teetering on the edge and she reached up and gave him another shove so he'd fall off. He was crying but ok - could have easily busted and arm or dislocated a shoulder. That was so over the top bad that she got a few whacks and was sent to her room. By dinnertime everything was fine and she kept apologizing to Mike. FTR: I was beaten regularly as a kid. Like pretty badly in some really nasty ways. And you can attest to how perfectly I survived it. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”