re: So you are not allowed to whip your kids now?

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Perhaps but I have found if you leave something to the imagination it is more effective. I threaten spankings and have made it out to be the worst thing in the world. The kids are so terrified by what they don't know that if I ever actually did it then Id have no trump card left.

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When my brother was 10 and I was 8, we were getting to the age where spanking did not work anymore so my dad took an old weedeater and jerry rigged it to have belt segments attached to it. He called it the asswhacker 2000. He never used it, only demonstrated it once and that was all it took. We would get "timeouts" and dad would say don't make me go get the asswhacker.

ETA: the best part was that he kept it secret from my mom until after he passed away. My brother and I were talking with my mom one night and it came up, she always thought that it was for the really big weeds.