I Am Still Spanked

I don't understand parents who still spank their adult (or eve teenage) children.

Sure, I was spanked, and quite often, as a kid. But my Mom stopped when I was 11 or 12. Very few us weren't. When does spanking stop and turn into beating? Kids are more social than adults are. You may administer the spanking/beating where the "reason" strikes you. But YOU don't have to answer for the taunting received from friends, or explain why you can't sit comfortably in school or in church, or have the other kids ask to "see what you got.

This is bad enough as a kid. But these adults now? 33...45...50...

Let's us a little common sense and restraint, shall we? Once a person is old enough to reach the "age of reason" (whenever that is)it makes more sense to TALK to him or her and put that paddle away.

Don't think I never saw teens or adult spankings. The alcoholic who lived next door took his belt to his kids more often than necessary. I went to high school with a girl who had a murderous bruise on her knee from her father's belt (we were both 17).I had friends who were bitter about still being spanked - at their age.

And for those of you who think me wrong - save your electricity. My Mom knew what she was doing when she put the paddle away for good. She never had to answer the door from the police bringing us home, or get us out of jail...

And she raised four of us.

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LikeMind · M

Agreed, I think a lot of the spanking posts on here are sheer fantasy, or embellished memories.
If you were beaten, it hurt then, the memory would still hurt now.
My experience is the cane across the hand, and a slipper across the backside, both from school teachers. The slipper was the worse of the two, god how I hated that man, just the once thankfully.

MaryJanine · 70-79, F

We have no way of telling. But I think any adult child is WAY too old to get the 3-year old treatment.

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MaryJanine · 70-79, F

I "lucked out", I think. My mother and father never spanked us unless we really had it coming, but after a certain age they put their paddle (figuratively speaking for my Dad) away, figuring we were old enough to be talked to rather than spanked automatically. For us, that was between 11 and 12. They trusted us to be truthful, and we repaid them with respect and never in trouble with the police or the neighbors. Not all parents treat their children the same, but if you abide by their rules while living at home, your parents will spank less and less often and begin to treat you like an adult. That is one of the best feelings in the entire world.