Teejay, I agree! I was told so often to go get "my own switch"...and if I picked one too small or thin, I'd get it even worse! I remember so well the feelings of total despair and helplessness. I read something in a magazine once by someone who was against physical punishment. It stuck in my mind and I always quote it to anyone I see whipping or beating their children..."If you assaulted, hit, or punched your neighbor, or someone you met on the street, you'd go to jail for battery. Why can you do this to a child and think it's okay?"I saw so much child abuse at our KH, it was ridiculous. My mother often used that saying too. That if my sister and I had lived in Israel, we'd have been stoned to death for disobedience. I always got the feeling she was disappointed we all didn't live back then! But she tried to come as close to it as possible! Once she hit me so hard I saw stars! 
I thought that only happened in cartoons. Not true!But, it's just like the society to deny and distance themselves from the real "truth", when it slaps them in the face!(pun intended!!)April"Love never dies." Voivodul Vlad Draculea (from Bram Stoker's Dracula-1992)
I thought that only happened in cartoons. Not true!But, it's just like the society to deny and distance themselves from the real "truth", when it slaps them in the face!(pun intended!!)April"Love never dies." Voivodul Vlad Draculea (from Bram Stoker's Dracula-1992)