When I was a kid, I and all my close friends received pretty severe switchings. Mother was not quite as brutal as Daddy but she would also sometimes switch us.
Now my parents were excellent parents. My Mother, I consider the best person I ever knew. I am sure all of us kids could today get our Fathers convicted of child abuse.
I agree. I’d rather face a belt or paddle than a switch just about any day. A switch stung first time, every time. But it wasn’t deadly or anything. Definitely taught me to dance, though. :>)
I was quite familiar with the back of dad’s hand. He also taught me to shoot before he taught me to ride a bike. We shot birds and rats with BB guns and pellet guns. In 4th grade Mrs. Maxwell busted a ruler across my behind. In junior high I must have been in a dozen fights. And that’s just off the top of my head.
I turned out OK, and so did my brothers and the guys I grew up with.
Peterson allegedly sent text messages to the child’s mother saying he “felt bad” because....” he struck the kid in the testicles”.....
That’s going too far and much more than switching a kid.