I Am A Strict Mom

Being a strict Mom means more than setting limits on things like bratty selfish behavior, trashy dressing and social media misuse – and enforcing them with consequences -- sometimes even (heaven forbid!)politically incorrect spankings!😲

Don't get me wrong -- there is way too little spanking these days (and those ineffective “last resort” pops on a clothed rear don't count) -- but there is more than just spanking to what sets politically incorrect pro-spanking parents apart from politically correct non-spanking parents.

The failure to spank your children is not just a difference, but a symptom. Parents who won’t lay a hand or paddle on a bare bottom embrace a completely different parenting philosophy than those who will. It is not just that they won’t apply the rod — it’s that they lack what I call a “rod mentality.”



To these parents, discipline is often a dirty word. They tend to be overly permissive, set poor examples, be inconsistent in moral guidance and not teach responsibility. They are unlikely to view themselves as absolute authority figures but, rather, will treat the family as a democracy (without a constitution). They are more apt to want to be buddies than parents to their children.

Anyway, I'll have a lot more on all this in future posts....But, on a personal note, this is briefly how I went from being a modern anti-spanking permissive Mom to a traditional pro-spanking strict Mom.....



I was spanked as a kid, but I went to college and became convinced that spanking was a terrible thing, and that my sister and I should be neurotic basket cases because we were spanked frequently and in a particularly horrible way – usually bare bottom with Mom's hairbrush or a wooden spoon.

Later, when I became a Mom, and my first born was beginning to act like those horrible, self-centered, unhappy brats I could never stand, I got to wondering how my sister and I turned out to be so well-adjusted, and carefully looked into the anti-spanking research--and lot of it is just not that good--the methodology stinks and the researchers clearly had made their conclusion before conducting any studies.

I was surprised to find several much better conducted studies that found that spanking was not only not harmful, but the very best way to get kids to comply with their parents' wishes. You never hear about these in the mainstream media or pop parenting books. Not to mention the thousands of years of parental experience!!!!!


Anyway, to make a long story short – I became my Mom ☺ – and have never had reason to look back.

"Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child"

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P.S. -- On that fake anti-spanking research:https://similarworlds.com/story?fid=2327115&tid=596949&name=I-Am-A-Strict-Mom