Andee,Your dad sounds like my mom. She was a single parent with six kids to raise and didn't have time to play games when her rules were disobeyed. Going outside and picking your own switch has GOT to be one of the most horrible tortures ever devised by Southern parents. (That's so cruel it ain't funny.) And you can easily be sentenced five-to-ten for some of the stunts my mamma pulled.It's funny, but I don't believe in spanking. One day I may come to regret my current position, but I don't even slap my daughter's hand. I figure if it's illegal to strike hardened criminals in the penitentiary, then it's wrong for grownups to hit little kids with anything, including their hands. How a father could beat his child like that man did, even including other children in the proceedings...
tj
tj