yep...the old drama queen move
stare down at the hands and tear up
or fall on the floor and put hands over head and not look up
or lean against the refrigerator and covered one’s head like those Cracker barrel doll kids standing in the corner
he seems back to normal again this morning
I can pretty much recall when I started to swat the boys ...the first boy got it earlier and more frequent....he wouldn’t get in his high chair or car seat etc....defiant
number two lad and both girls could almost have never experienced corporal punishment
the baby won’t need much I can tell
My dad lit my arse up frequently...hell, they all did back then. No warnings like now....just whap or grab you up and take you to the room for a serious one. Not many kids back then who did not fear dad and often mom too. I got whupped for not saying sir or maam or using the N-word.
Nowadays with many younger parents, it’s all touchy feely being friends and all.
When I go to PTA/PTO meetings I feel (aside from feeling like grandpa) I feel like a virgin at a pagan funeral. Today’s young parents where I live are much much more liberal and PC about everything and they are raising tier kids to be little PC nazis. The dads mostly act like little mice-men....not all but most. I see a dad like me and we know...we are an endangered species.
My sons talk about a go-cart they get admonished they are wasting oil. They talk about hunting, then they are mudering animals. They talk about us clearing land and it’s about did we kill any trees.
It’s scary.
My father was 53 when I was born. Talk about feelin’ like a granddaddy! He wasn’t into spanking or whuppin’. My mother pretty much handled that with my brothers. I was the spoiled rotten, never got spanked child. Not that I needed spanking. I was crushed if you looked at me like I did something wrong. Of course, my brothers have a different view . . .
That's child abuse for someone to deliberately lay a guilt trip on your kids like that.
Psychological abuse.
Tell the PC crowd they need to start by silencing the yard crews with worthless leaf blowers. All it does is burn fuel, make noise, and put the debris in the street or the neighbor's yard (make it someone else's problem).
A rake or broom and a bag would get the debris OUT of there and the scratching noise is more rhythmic and soothing than the leaf blower chorus.
But the unskilled labor crowd would not be happy. They'd have to do work.