[marlon]

Hey you're lucky the police weren't at your door. I once swated my step-daughter on the leg with a belt, not that hard and with thru blue jeans I may add, after she kicked her mother and pulled her hair.

Much to my surprise she dialed 911,as she was instructed to do at school, and the next thing I know there are 5 cop cars converging on my front lawn!

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So how did it turn out?

I think my kids know that the coroner would be called if they physically abused their mother.

AFAIK, we call it "justifiable homicide" in Texas.

You reminded me of the time my mom really laid into me when I was in second grade. Upon learning that I had hit a girl with a rock (it was a "lucky shot" from 40 feet, i.e. she received a slight cut), my mom let me have it with various houshold implements, to include my cowboy holster, for an extended period of time.

Nowadays, she would have been jailed. Back then, it was good parenting. Hey, I survived to tell the tale without stitches, and I NEVER threw rocks at girls again. Looking back on it, I deserved a good butt kicking over that.