"Just wait till your Dad gets home!"
This was usually followed by a "No, No, NOOOO!!! I'm so sorry, I'll never do it again," from me. I knew that I had truly messed up and when dad got home, I was getting the belt.
My brother was a little smarter when it came to spankings (at least he thought). He would hide the paddle/ belts. He thought if mom couldn't find them, he would get out of his spanking. Little did he know mom's can turn anything into a paddle. Flip-flop, wooden spoon, back scratcher... etc.
Obviously, I came from a "spanking family". Don't get me wrong, this wasn't an everyday or every situation occurrence. We had to put our nose in the corner plenty of times too. (Yes, nose actually touching the corner.)
All of this being said, I ran across a new study online today:
In the Journal of
Family Psychology, researchers recorded audio of families soon after they
returned home from work and daycare and discovered that spanking is fairly
common.
Out of 33 families, the researchers discovered 41 incidents
of spanking or hitting children in 15 different families over a six-night
period. The study also found that the
whacks didn't seem to resolve problems. Despite being spanked, about 75 percent
of the children were misbehaving again within 10 minutes of the incidents.
The study suggests that hitting kids is not
an effective way to teach them or promote parent-child relationships.
This is obviously just one study out there. I know many parents have to have the conversation and face the decision to spank or not to. My side, I'm for it. It worked for me, I learned consequences for my actions. Let's just say to this day (creeping into 30s), I don't even have a speeding ticket to my name because I'm afraid my mom will say, "Just wait till your dad hears about this!"
