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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
And another thing was, when we were getting our spankings my dad used to say 'This is going to hurt me a lot more that it hurts you'.......I never quite knew what he meant until I grew up and realised that it meant he had in some way, failed to get the point of the warning not to do something, over to us.
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I actually used that in a different way. I hope it doesn't come across as psychotic or something! When Annie and Joshua were about 9 and 6, they "lied" about doing a certain chore. I had them come out into the garden and asked if they agreed they deserved a spanking. They both agreed.
I took off my belt and proceeded to smack my upper thigh (I was in shorts) a number of times. It left some pretty harsh red marks. They were quite confused. I explained that they had done something wrong that deserved discipline. Because I love them I was willing to take that punishment for them. When we do wrong, we cause various degrees of pain. Sometimes to ourselves and sometimes to others.
I believe it was a good lesson for them as they still remember it. Ya know, I guess it does sound fairly psychotic. It was just a way for me to avoid "beating" them but to show kinda what used to happen to us.
I'm really sorry guys but as you canm see I'm kinda in a wicked manic mood hence the extra babble. I'm off to cut a tree down with my teeth. That should dispell some of the extra energy!
Hugs and Kisses,
BEA