[mountn man]

There are 2 words that people often confuse, but have different but similar meanings.

Discipline and punishment.

Discipline: the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.

Punishment: the infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offense.

Seldom were spankings the lone "punishment" for me.
Often they were the softening up exercise.
The "attention getter".

Granted, the spanking hurt and was part of the punishment, but it MADE me sit in my chair in the corner, until I was told to leave it.

[trebb]

Yep - I don’t recall being spanked but my Mom said it happened when I was young enough that I couldn’t reason well about the dangers of certain activities - it taught me to pay attention and then talking would be effective - remember being 12 and doing something bad and when my Dad got done talking I was wishing for a spanking instead....tided me well and that’s how I did my kids and how they did their kids - have some beautiful and truly good children and grandkids...none of whom have ever been abused but have been disciplined.