mine did not spank us when it comes to matters of personal safety, like you said the natural consequences were painful enough already. but looking back they only spanked us when we were pushing boundaries like this mexianon said    , to 'assert their authority.'  i can remember that they only spanked us like 4-5 times growing up, and we were only under the age of 9. those times we deserved it by being genuine shitheads and i was glad that my folks reminded us who is in charge.  they also never spanked us from being too hyper, they just simply redirected our energy or talked to us like what you're doing.
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