Chest, back, and arms? That is abuse.
Spanking means discipline applied to the backside, a nicely padded region that stings, but doesn’t bruise and doesn’t do actual physical damage.
Being a wayward child,inventive in my mischief, I was spanked with some regularity. A “Wait till your Father gets home” deal. First I got to dread it; then the reasonable explanation why it was coming, by the end of which I am thinking “OK, do it already!”. And this is in the day of thin belts and welts on the butt.
Otra vez, a teacher slapped me in the face, hard. Mother raised enough cain, got her fired. The term gluteus maximus aptly describes the juvenile butt; an appropriate place for such discipline. I didn’t like spanking, but retrospect, I love my parents, they were right, and it did way more good than passing harm.
Corporal punishment; no problem, it does get a child’s attention. Arms, chest and such, that crosses the line.
Being a wayward child,inventive in my mischief, I was spanked with some regularity. A “Wait till your Father gets home” deal. First I got to dread it; then the reasonable explanation why it was coming, by the end of which I am thinking “OK, do it already!”. And this is in the day of thin belts and welts on the butt.
Otra vez, a teacher slapped me in the face, hard. Mother raised enough cain, got her fired. The term gluteus maximus aptly describes the juvenile butt; an appropriate place for such discipline. I didn’t like spanking, but retrospect, I love my parents, they were right, and it did way more good than passing harm.
Corporal punishment; no problem, it does get a child’s attention. Arms, chest and such, that crosses the line.