OMy! My parenting style is as if we both came from another planet!

My mother smacked, strapped and then smacked some more! I have smacked my children - but rarely and to be very honest it has affected my self respect so badly - I felt like a hideous failure... My mother just did it as a par for course. I use a chair, removal of the child from the situation - or sometimes I remove them or myself!

I had the same thing with being made to eat everything on my plate or I stayed up until it was done. I loathed pumpkin and every nite I would sit with it in front of me swallowing it down with glasses of water. What is that about? I do not make my children eat foods that they just don't like. We are all different and have differing likes and aversions - it has taken almost 35 years for me to enjoy roast pumpkin!!!

My mother was the CC queen - she believed if a baby was dry and fed it was being "naughty" by crying. I am a lot older than my younger sister - I remember her screaming for what seemed like hours. I remember how distressed I felt.

My mother didn't b/feed - I have breastfed exclusively all of my babies - breastfeeding was "crude".

Children should be seen and not heard. In my house the children out number the adults - and they are people with rights. They don't need punishment they need direction... They need consequences that have been agreed upon - not willy nilly slaps and yells...

Actually maybe I was swapped at birth....