Want to spice up the conversation at your monthly teas ladies? Maybe you want some fireworks at your next bridge night. Or better yet, how about ruining your golf partner’s perfect drive by asking him seconds before he tees off if he spanks his three year old! Not only will he drive the ball squarely into cabbage (it’s a slang golf term for hitting the ball into inescapable rough), he may hurl his driver in your direction and glare at you for your impeccable (or not so impeccable) timing. Let’s hope he didn’t have much of a wager going.
So why does this topic create so many sparks? Why do people get really hot when the topic comes up? Do they really believe that a parent who spanks their child lovingly and biblically is psychologically hurting their child, forever? It seems that emotions seem to run a lot hotter on this topic than even politics. This puzzles me greatly. There shouldn’t be such soul vexations on this subject that for centuries, even millenniums, was not a topic for debate at all. Spankings used to be an uncontested parental tool to direct a child away from foolishness (a favorite term in the Book of Proverbs for people who act like idiots and don’t think before they do crazy things).