Originally posted by Curtis
Well now, I just have to take exception to that. I'm from the John Rosemond school of child raising and I see nothing wrong with giving a child a pop on the butt to get his attantion and show him you're serious.

I was spanked four times when I was a child and three of them were deserved. Obviously they made a pretty big impression on me, since I can remember each of them.

Since you're throwing around names, leo, I'd have to say that it's people who refuse to be parents to their children who refuse to spank when it's warranted. Too many parents these days want to be their child's friend, when that's not their job and it does them a serious disservice.
I'm very sorry that I gave you the impression that I was impugning the motives of people who spank children. I had intended to make it clear that I respect other people's opinions on that.

What I was trying to suggest was that there may be some people in the vanilla world who do it out of sadistic impulses that they can't acknowledge. But I explicitly excluded those of us here who recognise and accept our feelings, and I certainly didn't mean to imply that this was the only reason.

For what it's worth, I've probably smacked my children that many times. I just didn't plan on it.