Growing up 1 of 8 kids it was my mother who dealt out the discipline. My father just had to say " if I have to come in there!!" and that was enough to stop whatever shenanigans were going on. He never had to actually hit us. 95% of the time not even come in the room.
But my Mom.. she would lay into you with no uncertain terms. corporal punishment.. And fact is.. we ( especially the boys) deserved it. We were always getting into mischief and trouble. Many times the only thing that stopped us from doing something was that thought of Ma finding out.
One of her best lines was if she found out you actually did not do what you took a beating for ( which was rare), she would say " well, you did something I didn't find out about".. which was true.
We all turned out just fine. Love that Gal :)
Edited by
devildog123
on Sat 11/28/15 07:33 PM