re: OT: Did you get whipped/spankings as a child?

Geez....what an awkward bunch we have here.. i was spanked,whooped,beatin and bruised with hands feet belts switches....an ashtray once...the list goes on and on. I had a tendency to fight when i was younger but it was normally to do with the defense of someone else and that comes from watching my mom take a beating from my dad. I knocked his teeth out at 16 and beat him unconcious at 17. At 18 i had my first child and could never understand how you do that to a kid after laying eyeson her. Three girls in all and while there has been a spanking or two in each of their lives it never worked as well as verbal punishment and taking priveledges away.