safe4kids	Re: BEAT that Child!
	Wow Andee and teejay!!!! Here I thought I was in a very small minority of kids who had to go pick their own switches!! My mom had some kind of little cherry tree out back and she'd make us go pick a switch off of it...it had little thorns on it too, as I recall. I remember having to go out and pick switches...but I don't remember much beyond that...Tracy, maybe you can help me out here? I don't remember actually getting hit with them, perhaps I've blanked it out or maybe my mom just used it as scare tactics. I do remember my dad lining the four of us for spankings with his belt. He'd ALWAYS say: "You know how some parents say this is gonna hurt me more than it does you? Well, that ain't true!" and then he'd commence to whupping the stew out of us, but no, he didn't use the buckle end either, as I recall. Yikes, this makes me feel ill even thinking about it! I spanked my kids for a brief period when they were young and I was still a JW...but it didn't happen often and I finally reached the point where I figured that I could hardly teach my children that it was wrong to strike another person by my striking them! So I switched to time outs, restrictions, etc..and so far, they're pretty decent kids, if I do say so myself! No problems in school or getting along with others, etc. Still can't get 'em to clean their rooms tho... Dana Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end... Closing Time, Semisonic
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