[nmh]

"I grew up in the 50s and 60s. A very different time I guess. Because, simply, it only took a look from my Dad or Mom to shut you up and straighten up immediately. My Dad only had to spank me one time as I ever remember. I was about 9 or 10. I still remember it and never forgot that I DID NOT want to travel that path again. He did not beat me or was he brutal. But, the lesson learned then is a lesson I carry with me today. My parents, grandparents, etc. practiced corporal punishment. However, no one in my family has committed mass murder or mayhem because of the ass whoopings."

I RELATE!

One LOOK would do it! I KNEW what the consequences were for bad behavior ... today there are NO consequences but reason me silly stuff - it's a joke!

[beelzepug]

""I grew up in the 50s and 60s."

My ol' man could reach back over the seat of our '41 Plymouth and unerringly smack whichever one of us three boys was acting up without ever taking his eyes off the road. To this day I've never figured out how he did that. He's been dead for some 40 years, now. I hope one day to ask him.

[RetiredArmy]

One LOOK would do it! I KNEW what the consequences were for bad behavior ... today there are NO consequences but reason me silly stuff - it's a joke!

You got that EXACTLY right. NO CONSEQUENCES. When I was a kid, there were no freaking "time outs." You got your ass smacked. Kids now days have nothing to worry about or fear. Get a spanking, tell teacher, mom and day go to jail. None of that when we were kids that is for sure. Call a cop on my dad, the cop would probably have held you while pop smacked your ass some more. Kids doing some of the things they do now, they know there are no consequences for their actions. The BLAME will be on someone or something else. TV, games, mom and dad's drinking/drug use, mom and dad having no time for them because it is taking mom and dad to both work to let kid have all the crap kid wants to keep whining kid happy.