tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post1812265117819319259..comments2023-10-22T20:53:58.823-04:00Comments on String Too Short to Tie: Reflections on Corporal Punishmentvanillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11978025976591113499noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post-65776335694352199182014-02-23T09:22:25.833-05:002014-02-23T09:22:25.833-05:00Sailorcurt, this is a great place for your comment...Sailorcurt, this is a great place for your comments. Your father faithfully practiced what I consider to be the first rule of corporal punishment, namely, never administer when angry. Your parents were faithful in their duties to their children.<br /><br />Shelly, I always enjoyed hearing my dad tell that on his brother. Outcome: Uncle Ellis had a very successful life as husband and father, farmer, business man, and pillar of his community. RIP, Uncle.vanillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978025976591113499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post-21160372868719884702014-02-23T09:02:06.671-05:002014-02-23T09:02:06.671-05:00Ha! What a great story!Ha! What a great story!Shellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930262815304757150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post-27699663384297852812014-02-22T21:36:27.373-05:002014-02-22T21:36:27.373-05:00One thing about my dad and corporal punishment tha...One thing about my dad and corporal punishment that never occurred to me until I was an adult. We never discussed it and he never mentioned it, I just realized it one day when pondering the vicissitudes of life:<br /><br />Dad never, ever laid a hand on us while he was angry. Dad was a large man, with big powerful hands. He could have seriously injured us had he been overzealous with corporal punishment.<br /><br />I guess he knew that and consciously made the decision not to do it when he was still angry.<br /><br />I often wondered why he'd send us to our room for half an hour or hour before coming up to dole out the whippings...at the time I thought he was just doing it to torture us.<br /><br />He wasn't torturing us...he was cooling off. When he finally did come to administer justice, he was always calm, level headed and...I guess you'd call it "professional"...about it.<br /><br />My respect for him grew immensely when I finally was mature enough to realize that's what he'd been doing...especially as a father myself and understanding just how difficult that kind of self control is and how much more difficult and heart wrenching it is to mete out punishment on our children when we're not angry, but doing it just because it needs to be done.<br /><br />My dad wasn't perfect, and there were a lot of things he could have done better, but he got more things right than he got wrong. He was a good man...and a good dad.<br /><br />Sorry for the filibuster. This probably should have been a blog post rather than a comment, but you got me started...Sailorcurthttp://sailorcurt.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post-15666377301688336142014-02-22T10:20:10.318-05:002014-02-22T10:20:10.318-05:00Chuck, I recall only one lickin' I feel to thi...Chuck, I recall only one lickin' I feel to this day was undeserved. But I missed more than enough I should have had to make up for it.<br /><br />Sharkey, so then, standing in the corner merely provided you with time to consider how to "get away with it" next time?vanillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978025976591113499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post-61317779678529514612014-02-22T09:44:18.054-05:002014-02-22T09:44:18.054-05:00Pretty funny sequel! I did some time-outs (called ...Pretty funny sequel! I did some time-outs (called standing in the corner) too, but the physical punishments seemed to do more for me (eg- change behavior). The time-outs only made me grumpy and were something easily tolerated until I could get back to whatever it was I wanted to do. Sharkbyteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10139935335209860357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3535543883262225735.post-721321256425721262014-02-22T09:24:28.912-05:002014-02-22T09:24:28.912-05:00as a youngster, I got a lickin' fairly often. ...as a youngster, I got a lickin' fairly often. But I never did get one but what I deserved it, and probably missed out on quite a few others that I had coming.Secondary Roadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05116234285533139701noreply@blogger.com