 | Brian, I don't know that anything other than the overdue spanking of an incorrigible brat could have a parent "looking forward" to the job. It sounds as if your older step-daughter is pushing the tolerance envelope to see just how much contrariness she's going to be permitted. And if the preferred method of reacquainting her with the chain of command in the family unit has been to redden her bare bottom in over-the-knee fashion, I don't see how it can do her any harm to be made fully aware of your instructive/corrective abilities as the paternal authority figure in her life.
Classof68 suggested having her mother sit in on any such spanking. I think that's something the two of you could sort out between yourselves. Without knowing the tenor of your relationship with the girl in question, I can't confidently come down on one side or the other of that discussion.
As for your son being too much of a young man now to be put over your knee, the alternative is to keep ratcheting up the intensity of his punishments, is it not? That's heading into dangerous territory. I think you're mistaken if you regard the "childish" associations with over-the-knee spanking as a detriment in the attempt to adjust an adolescent attitude.
You're not obligated to observe the Marquis of Queensbury rules in spanking your son. Getting his bottom smacked isn't supposed to be a rite of passage. If his behaviour calls for a spanking, why should you feel any compunction to somehow change the traditional methodology in order to accommodate his I'm-too-old-to-be-spanked-like-a-child illusions? If he found it sufficiently upsetting to be once again put over your knee for his bottom warmings, he might well expedite his emotional growth and development to keep pace with his body.
Spanking doesn't have to be complicated. If you've got a lap and two good arms, the rest of it has been pretty straightforward for umpteen generations. It sounds to me like your own daughter has certainly got it figured out. The world keeps turning in only one direction, and a spanking, when all is said and done, is still a spanking. |
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