Discipline from my mother was like an ECW match. One time she threw an
open pot of yoghurt at me~!!
I used to go into school with chunks of skin ripped out of my arm because she's dug her nails right into me for giving her grief in the morning, and I'm amazed at how much stories of this kind of thing as well as hair pulling, skelps across the face, etc. actually shock some people to the very core and don't make others flinch in the sligthest. Guess people are used to whatever happens in their own homes and find it hard to believe anything else happens elsewhere. Personally I wouldn't have had it any other way - reckon I grew up a pretty reasonable guy, I don't think I'd be quite as harsh with my own kids but I certainly learned my lessons. Anything bad I did, I'd probably have kept doing it if a slipper to the arse was all the punishment I was given.
