Hitting someone with an object hard enough to leave welts is just plain wrong, especially a 12 year-old. That said, this old gal was a great grandmother at 58? To cram 3 more generations in there she couldn’t have been much over 12 when she first gave birth. Probably a real nice family.
I’m 65 years old and to this day my momma will tell me “boy, don’t think you’re too old for a switching.”
My reply is always the same: “yes momma, I’m sorry.”
Because I know if she thinks the situation warrants it she WILL get a switch and wear it out on my backside.
Momma don’t play at all.
Garbage. A red stripe from a peach switch..so what? Bruises are another matter. The problem is the idea being sold that ANY physical punishment is criminally prosecutable, including a palm of the hand vigorously applied to the ass (bare or clothed) of the misbehaving party.
Watch any mother animal discipline her offspring. The female of any species WILL apply physical discipline to her progeny, and not gentle discipline, either. Yet she will, by the same rules, give her own life to defend those same progeny.
I watched two sisters-in-law raise their kids. One didn't believe in physical chastisement....only mental. The other applied the old hand-palm as indicated. The children of the first were (and still are) huge discipline problems, though fortunately never to the point of criminality. The children of the second are successful, well-mannered adults.
So you have a child at 15yrs 4mos, the child has your grandchild at 15yrs 4mos, the grand child has your great-grandchild at 15yrs 4mos, and 12 years later you have a 12 year old great grandchild at the age of 58. They don’t waste time. In another 3 yrs 4mos she may be a great-great-grandmother at age 61.