Maggie's Farm

Agree, Dr. Joy and it is a shame when others who don't understand that difference try to interfere in good parenting. My kids are close to grown now, as one will go off to college this fall and the baby is in 7th grade.

When they were much younger, one of them was at work with me one afternoon. He had repeatedly ignored me when I told him how to act. So when we were walking down the hallway near my office and he did it again, I popped him on the rump with a quick slap.

My lovely bride and I didn't have to spank them very often, but when we did, we ALWAYS spanked on the rump and never hard enough to cause any lasting injury (my dad once told me that God had given us buttocks so parents could spank unruly young ones without harming them).

That day a colleague of mine, who is a card-carrying Socialist saw me correct my son. He told one of our mutual friends that he was tempted to punch me when he saw me "assault my child". Mr. Socialist never told me that. And he never brought it up. I won't speculate on how that would have ended if he had thrown a punch, but if he had called CPS and I had to defend my parenting, it would have been a major hassle and might well have cost our family a great deal of money.

My kids certainly aren't perfect but they have respect for authority. They are honor students and their teachers are always telling me how nice our kids are. In short, they are well raised. If there were more like them in the world today, I think there would be less problems.