Subj : Discipline (was: Re: Crowd control) To : GEORGE POPE From : JOE MACKEY Date : Sat Oct 23 2021 09:05:42 Cyberpope wrote -- > I haven't had to give my son a paddling like I often got. I don't recall any paddlings when young. If I did they are long forgotten. > When real young, I used the one-finger method of corporal discipline, a simple flick of the nearest earlobe was enough to get his attention on track. Good idea. > I recall my spankings; I still maintain they were erxcessive Whenever one is punished for something when young they think its excessive, cruel, etc. But years later realise it was for their own good. I know there were times I would be pouting about something and how cruel my mother was, etc but eventually learned she wasn't and knew what she was doing. Joe --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 www.doccyber.org bbs.docsplace.org (1:135/392) .