Spanking Quotes

(talking about a severe coughing attack she had when she was six weeks old, slowly turning blue and finally stopping breathing until her mother`s prayers and spanking brought her back to life) If I were to write a biography, it would start like this: I was born in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4, 1929 . . . and I died six weeks later.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

It`s as though you have crossed Niagara on a tightrope 250 times and, on the 251st crossing---vertigo. You are convinced you can`t move across the stage without falling over. You go rigid from the knees down. You suddenly wonder, why am I doing this? I knew I`d got to get through a whole season, three spanking parts, and that if I ran away, I would never act on stage again. It was that knowledge that shocked me out of my illness. But I had a very bad time in the first weeks. - DJ, regarding his two-year spell of stage fright and subsequent return in 1982 to the Royal Shakespeare Company

We think of ways that we can control them, whether it be with a spanking or a gold sticker or a parent constantly saying, `Good job, good job, good job.`