Posted on 06/30/2016 10:43:43 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard
The family moved to Hot Springs when BJ was four. He graduated from Hot Springs High School.
Pretty dumb. I had to go cut the switch that my Mom would use. If there was no switch available, she’d use her shoe, or a 2x4 or any old thing that was handy.
Pretty easy to have welts when there’s a switch, but not as likely to do real damage - unlike the 2x4.
>It’s legal in Va to spank but if the cops or CPS get called in and there are marks, you’re going to be arrested and charged.
And, thus, a toothless punishment.
Up the ante grand-ma, go w/ the tazer next time...no marks.
My great grandmother was married at 17 for 62 years, her daughter was married at 17 for 50 years, my mom got married at 21 going on 34 years. So she was my great grandmother at like 56. We always called em country generations. I remember my great great grandmother...she only ever knew Creole french
When I was 22 I wanted to date a hot granny from Mississippi who was 35, so I told her I was 26 so she could comfort herself that only a single digit seperated us in years, not a double. Ahh, youth...
A dire need for Common Sense (Thomas Paine, 1776):SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.What we have here, precisely as with LBJ’s “Great” program, is exactly the conflation of “society” with government, distinctly to the the disadvantage of society.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .
Cops are punishers, not patrons. It’s their job; they are unsuited for any other. You can try to swat flies with a hammer, but you are unlikely to do any good and are certain to fix something in the house that wasn’t broken before.
I’m a grandmother @ 49. And he’s 3.
I was 19 when I had my youngest. My daughter was almost 27 when she had my grandson. I fail to see the shock factor here.
Sadly, I have to be up-to-date on what constitutes child abuse. The welts on her arms would be enough to justify a report. In former days, cops could let someone go by giving a bit of advice. Things are so over-controlled, so many small things are crimes, most of us are suffering through this unannouncd Depression era, that losing a livelihood is to be feared. Yeah, government, government, everywhere you turn, the government is watching.
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