I don’t know where the line is for “sparing the rod and spoiling the child” but I, personally, don’t think a kid should get lashes for every offense. Recently he has discovered the pleasure in spanking older women who are often not only willing, but desperate to be over Ken’s knee getting their bottoms warmed.

At this point immediate discipline will likely be ineffective as the focus has turned from the rule that was broken, to a battle of wills. Looking back on those times now, as an adult, we appear to ourselves as ridiculous, almost laughable.I have been on the positive and negative ends of discipline with the paddle, where in some cases it was used as the only means to discipline me and others it was reserved for the worst offenders – still me – and was administered with extreme prejudice.

There is a growing number of people who are willing to blame-shift the entire outcome of their life rather than taking their licks and moving on. Some say that the ‘rod’ mentioned is a tool used by the shepherd to guide and lead the sheep, not to beat them. Joseph Smith had just turned fifty so he was eligible to live in the house his friend owned in a retirement villiage.A disabled lady is learning to play the guitar on the Internet A disabled lady is learning to play the guitar on the Internet. It seems to mark a point in our life that we can look back on and remember just how naïve or arrogant or lazy or deceptive we were and how easily we were caught. Well, it would work for the day, usually, but either I really hated school or I loved being a class clown and before too long I was being sent back to the principal’s office.