[HolgerDansk]

My mom raised five boys. She said we were like "an atomic reaction, if one got out of control, they all did". A potch on the dupa was used to reinforce this for the first few years, and after that, she just gave you "the look" and that's all that was needed, if anything.

A few months back I was in a grocery store aisle when a mother gave her son a swat on the behind after he started acting up. Some busybody came right up to her and said "that's child abuse!" and stormed off. When I passed her on the way to the next aisle, I said "thank you, you're doing your boy a favor", and she smiled. Farking liberals.

[Aquinasfan]

A few months back I was in a grocery store aisle when a mother gave her son a swat on the behind after he started acting up. Some busybody came right up to her and said "that's child abuse!" and stormed off. When I passed her on the way to the next aisle, I said "thank you, you're doing your boy a favor", and she smiled.

My wife was terrified of this, so... One day when I was out by myself grocery shopping with the kids, I gave one a swat on the bum. Fortunately, no one complained. But once they knew that they wouldn't be treated any differently in public, they never acted up again.