+10000 Last hiding I got from my Mom was about Gr 2. Thereafter she could never caught me... So she would tell my Dad when he got home from work. When he decided it was time, he sent me to the bathroom. He then strolled to the cafe on the corner four blocks away, bought the newspaper, came back, read it about halfway through and only then gave me what was coming. Never ever did he raise his hand in anger, never. And he never gave my sister a hiding... Also, I only got punished for things like disrespect, or for being dishonest or disobedient... never for just being a kid... I remember the day is about St 4 where in one afternoon I first kicked a rugby ball through my bedroom window, and then hit a cricket ball through a neighbor's window. My Dad refused to punish me, told my Mom I was a boy, I'm supposed to be playing outside with a ball, and accidents happen... (but if I had kicked the ball through my bedroom window from the inside, I would have had hell to pay, because I knew I was not allowed to play with a ball inside the house...) Kids need to be punished, but for the right reasons, and in the right way. Fair punishment is good, hitting a child with a stick in anger is assault. M2cw.
