A switch is intended to sting, and it will leave a welt. I’m from a different era, I guess, and I used to get switched. It hurt. It worked. I still think my mom loved me.
Of course, anything can be taken overboard, but I don’t seem to be getting that sense here.
Amen! I thank my parents that they took me to the woodshed (paddled my behind) once in a while. Cause me no permanent harm and helped me understand the error of my ways. LOL!
Did you see the pictures of the cuts that were supposedly from a week later and the fact that he got him on the scrotum? I don’t know man, a four year old? If all that is legit then it’s waaaaay beyond the pale, at least in my opinion.
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I too got to do the willow Branch Dance
My mom used a belt and I lived to tell about it. I think ol’ Adrian is being set up....I hope it’s not worse than just a “switchin’ “!
My mom now in her 80’s will occasionally say she wishes she hadn’t spanked me. I tell her I’m glad she did.
Remember the old "Tarleton" cigarette slogan: "I'd rather fight than switch?"
The child is 4 and had marks all over his body plus open wounds and even in the genitalia area.Guess you didn’t see the pictures.Go to this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3203485/posts
A switch is intended to sting, and it will leave a welt. I’m from a different era, I guess, and I used to get switched. It hurt. It worked. I still think my mom loved me.
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Right. When I did something wrong as a young kid, my dad would tell me to get a switch off one of the peach trees out back. These switches were just little slim suckers growing on the larger limbs. They had to be about 2-3 ft. long and if I picked a short one I had to go back and get another.
Dad would make me drop my jeans and lean face down over the bed. Between whacks on my butt and thighs, he would ask me questions; like: did I know why I was being punished or why I did so-and-so. ....After 10-15 swats with the “peach tree tea” (as he called it) he left me alone. When I was older he used his belt. .....I was never injured, but I did learn to avoid punishment by behaving.
They described cuts and bruises on the child's back and the back of his legs along with defensive wounds to his hands and arms - sound like he got a bit more "zealous" than appropriate with a 4-year old.
The Bible tells us that "He who spares the rod, hates his son", but there's a difference between discipline and an overcooked beating.