Ayelet Waldman Quotes

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?

When you chastised a youngster back in the early ages, we called it a whipping.

Look at the laws: you can't spank a kid without getting in trouble. That kept me in line!

Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.

[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.

Oh aye...my Father would thrash me every now and then. He'd talk while he did it too! He'd hit me and shout, 'Have ye had enough?' Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? 'Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???'

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.

Boys and girls playing together: 4 lashes

No one shall strike or caress a child.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.

In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.

Schools should bring back the whip.

I got a lot of whoopings back in the day. I was a very curious kid.

My parents were incredibly strict. My father went through a stage where he'd line us up every Friday and cane our hands if we'd been naughty. And this was mainly to pull my brother into line. My brother is five years older and my sister's eight years older. He would use a little bamboo cane, which my brother saw most of.