[katiesue]

My Mom was big on dragging you around by one arm. When I was in 4th grade I remember her dragging me 3 blocks. I don't remember what I had done, we were in the middle of moving and she and my dad had some big blow out. I must have wanted to stay with him but she drug me the whole way to the old house.

A few years ago she did something similar to one of her students (she was a kindergarten teacher). The other teacher who reported it to us, they wanted us to make her retire, was horrified but I thought "oh yea trademark Mom move".

She was also big on using the back of the brush. My dad never did more than yell at us, and that was pretty rare.

Maddie's never been spanked although a few times I was pretty close. She's done a few things that made me crazy and I just had to leave the room or drop her at her dads for a while till I cooled off so I wouldn't say anything to her in anger.