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Moms now vs back then
- By EddieNFL
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In third grade, Ms Baker used a fly back paddle. She would walk to your desk, make you stick your leg out and pop you on the thigh. The things you still remember after over six decades.
Moms now vs back then
- By EddieNFL
- The Bear Pit
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lol, my mom used to tell my older sisters to get something to beat me with.
my sisters were in a pickle, because they could get in trouble if they brought something that broke too easily.
didn't really matter. my mom was pretty small and unable to inflict any real damage with a yardstick (or whatever).
it was inevitable that my father would administer the real punishment when he got home from work.
/i rarely got into trouble. mostly it was fighting with my older brother.
Mom was 5’1” and wielded a switch as well as Athos did a rapier. Dad preferred size 36 cowhide. I earned only two from my father. The memory stuck with you for a while. If I didn’t get a switching a day from mom, I thought she was sick.
When I was about five, I was (as adults at the time would say) “showing my behind” in Mack’s Five and Dime. My 4’6” grandmother beat me in a circle using a flyswatter she picked up. I’m certain every adult in eyesight or earshot thought, “He had that coming.” DCF be damned.
