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>I would say that I also have mixed feelings. My >Mother was a single parent and I feel that she did the >best that she could overall in the context of the time >that I was raised. > >I believe that there are a handful of times throughout >the course of a typical childhood where a line is >really crossed and a more severe consequence becomes >necessary. I think that the times when my Mom chose to >enforce this were generally appropriate and kept me >out of more trouble growing up. > >If anything, I would say that she was a little lenient >at times and I probably could have been punished more >than I was looking back at it. > >That being said, I remember a lot of feelings of >embarrassment and fear around the spankings that I got >that weren't overly helpful to me in the long run. I >think that getting grounded or something instead could >have had a similar effect in deterring bad behavior >without leading to some of the negative reactions that >I felt.

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