Once when I was 13 or 14, I sassed my Dad about something...the reaction was immediate, and I found myself FLYING across the room. I landed in a heap and Dad was standing over me, ready to see if I needed another one. I didn"t!!!
I had no idea that he was either so fast or so powerful. Or that he would react so suddenly. But the message was clear: he WOULD NOT stand for me sassing him like I had heard other kids sass their parents. He never had to hit me again.
I really got along great with my parents. I had my Mom as my 4th grade teacher, and she carefully explained to me that I had to behave for her to successfully teach my class (of more than 30 students). Once when I was doing something I maybe should have known better than to do, she quietly asked me if there would have to be a parent/teacher conference? I straightened up right away. I didn"t want Mom to tell Dad I was acting up. I do not ever remember my Mom striking me, and only a few times from Dad. His signal that he was thinking about one of us needing a licking was that he would unbuckle his belt. I do not ever remember his ever taking off the belt, but I heard that once when I was really small, he spanked my oldest sister with a belt.
In raising our kids, I seldom spanked them, and the few swats they got were when they were still in the diaper stage. I thought the loud POP the paper diapers made was quite effective in getting their attention, and I never whacked them hard enough that they possibly could be injured. I took way more than my Dad did when my step children were teenagers, but the situation was different. Once when my stepson was about 14, he decided to shout disrespectfully at me and get in my face when we disagreed about something he wanted to do. It kind of shocked me when I realized that I had gone into a defensive position as I had been trained to as a law enforcement officer, and I was ready to react strongly. Luckily he did not try to hit me, or I almost certainly would have cleaned his clock! And that might have caused the end of my marriage to his mother, as things were not going as well as they might have been right then. But he didn"t, and I didn"t, and my wife and I are still together. And today that stepson is one of my closest buddies. Being a step parent was about the toughest job I ever signed up for!
Controlling kids is not easy, and what works with one kid might not work worth a darn with another. I personally do not think it is a good idea to spank kids, at least not after they are old enough to be reasoned with. Good luck!
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