• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    17 days ago

    Do both at the same time by getting your kids to go pick the switch (young, thin tree branch that’s still bendy) that they’re going to be whipped with!

    -a huge portion of southern parents

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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      17 days ago

      My mom would threaten to have my sibling pick the switch. Never actually did, but the threat was there. She told us that her parents would actually do it, implying we should be grateful she was a gentler parent.