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I keep going back to this blog to see if she's actually driven one of her kids to run away or kill her yet.

camillaanderson will make it easier for us to follow the car-crash. I can't believe this woman. Is she really real?

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ailbhe

I've never heard "spank" being used to describe a blow with a stick before, either.

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dreamalynn.livejournal.com

That's a very American idea, especially in the south. One of the things I remember vividly when we would visit my grandparents in Texas was the neighbor kids on either side being forced to go and get "switches" (thinner, flexible branches from saplings or shrubbery) and bring them to their parents to be hit with. I was absolutely horrified by the idea then, and I am now just thinking of it.

From:

ailbhe

I've read about that practice in some of those books about people who survived horrific childhoods. It gives me a milder shade of the same feeling I got reading about people digging their own graves under Nazi supervision.

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micheinnz.livejournal.com

One story that broke my heart (and fortunately the parent's too, and they stopped) was that of the little boy who was told to go and "cut a switch" to be hit with. He came back in and said "I couldn't find you a switch so I brought you this rock instead."