[RKDinOKC]

Good moaning!

Learned at a very young age I didn't like getting spanked. My Mom would say, "I'll swat you." Dad would just say what he wanted or didn't want you to do and if you did or didn't do what he said right then he would take his belt to me. Neither actually had to resort to it more than twice.

I remember things from a very young age. Remember once when I was 3 I was playing in the front yard and got within 8 ft of the curb. Mom yelled from the porch to stay out of the street or she would swat me. Had no intention of going in the street but stopped where I was and started crying a screaming like I had already been beat. Heard her make the comment that I was smart like a fox to keep from actually getting swatted.

The last time I got swatted by Mom was when I was 6. She had threatened to swat me and later I sneaked in and threw away her switch. She didn't make me go get a new one, but I still got swatted for it.

Thru grade school my Mom babysat 6 kids from down the street. They were at our house from 6:30 am to 4pm. She never threatened to swat anyone while they were there. Instead she did time outs. Only she never called it that. Usually it was for fighting over something. She made you side it a kitchen chair next to each other and be quiet until she said your could go. It usually didn't take but a couple of minutes for the offending parties to calm down.

She took care of my two nephews for a short time. They fought all the time and their mother just let them have it out. When they started that at Grandma's house she would make them sit touching each other in the lazyboy recliner and be quiet. After a few times when they came over they would start to fight and she would warn them. They would say they were sorry and they had forgotten they were at Grandma's. Now they won't speak to each other and the youngest also won't speak to his Mom or Dad. And they are grown and have families of their own with kids graduated college.