lol !
I agree that it’s the culture… our parents hit us and look how good our generation turned out.
I look at the overall picture. One of my friend in 4 grade back home use to come to school with horrible marks on her. She was expected to get 100s in everything and she did. It was when she was just being a kid and wanted to play - those marks would appear the next day. I have never seen such abuse in my life even though I was one of the LUCKY person to get beaten up by my lovely parents. :halo:
What I mean to say is - ALL kids who were disciplined with spanking - turn out mature and responsible individual.** Some dosage of spanking is a must.**
In return for all the spanking my parents gave me - I would like to turn around and tell them THANK YOU your effort paid off and I turned out good. If you had not spanked me - maybe I would not have HEARD what you said and probably I would have messed up my life somehow.
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I think - spanking is a MUST. I do not spank my kids and I feel that I am falling short of keeping this “fear” of “mom” in my kids.
Freaking - my kids are not scared of me! They SHOULD be. 
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