Quote Originally Posted by Crayola kiddies View Post
....You have to know your own child's currency.....
This is so true ... spanking NEVER worked on my brother but it was the only currency my dad knew and as a result in an effort to make it work it escalated to spanking harder, introducing tools to help it 'sink in' including discipline us ALL whenever he misbehaved in hopes that fear of his siblings being spanked would work and as others mentioned about it crossed that barrier to what society considers 'acceptable levels of corporal punishment' to being 'physical abuse'.