Should California Make Spanking Illegal?

Can you believe that this country is trying to make spanking illegal? California is trying to pass a law that spanking your child is a criminal act. Are they serious? I guess so because on every news channel this is a hot topic. Whose business is it to interfere with how parents discipline their children? How does a good parent defend themselves against a charge of that nature? Well let's talk about this for a minute. There are many areas that should be considered before such a law should even be bought before legislation.

My mother is a wonderful woman. As a kid I was what you would consider a serious pain in the butt. I was always getting into trouble. Getting into trouble and touching things I wasn't supposed to, got me spanked. I would get spanked where ever I decided to act like a fool at. If the school called and said I was acting up, she my "mother" would come to the school and spank me in front of the whole class. The teachers would thank her and then inform me that I better not make them call her again. Well it happened every now and then but the fact that she disciplined me like that in front of my friends and peers, it made me so mad and eventually I stopped showing my butt in school and in my neighborhood and the spankings stopped.

My dad on the other hand didn't spank me. He had the ability to be able to connect with my chest with a nicely placed blow. I wasn't allowed to cry and I had to stand there with my hand to my side. He never spanked my sister at all. He would just tell her he will spank her and she listens. My mother mainly deals with her. But me, and my brothers had to learn the manly way. And the best and most effective way that I learned was the only thing that made me listen. Not out of fear, but out of embarrassment, was the jab to the chest. Spanking didn't work for me as much as the punch in the chest from my dad did. It's not a hard punch but it's the fact that I got punched in public and had to stand there with my hands at my side and suck it up.