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

I got many whippings, whoppings, beatings whatever you want to call it with various instruments of destruction at home and at school.

Those taught me 2 things.

Don't get caught and whoever is physically stronger and/or in a position of authority (leverage) to impose their will does not make them right.

I didn't have to beat/whip/whop my children. They behaved the way they should and did what they should do because of how they were raised. Now I freely admit they were much better kids than I was. I was running as hard as I could after things I shouldn't have, was immortal and could fly, so I deserved everything I got. But there is another way, but maybe it is rare.