Of interest

While staying with Goose the other day, I think we both had a bit of a revelation.

One night at dinner, LJ asked me if I had to follow through with spankings for Mags, or if the threat alone was enough to do the trick. Suprised, I looked up and said, "Oh, we don't spank in our house." Just as suprised, he looked back and said, "Oh!"

I'd actually forgotten that most (I think) families still spank their kids. I know in these parts of the midwest its still the norm. And I don't know that Goose and LJ had ever met anyone who didn't occasionally lay their hands across their kids butt from time to time. I think that's a real testament to Husband and I; pretty much everyone who's spent time with Mags and I on this trip so far have commented on what a mellow and well-behaved kid we have. I actually felt really good about it. Hooray for the hippie parenting books! They weren't completely high on patchoulli!