Are Kids Supposed To Be Tortured On Their Summer Vacations? Part Two of Two
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (190074)
Boise, Idaho
March 31, 2017 11:17am CST
When I had recovered from the 'stomach flu' I began hanging out with my friend from across the street, Jackie, and her Dennis-the-Menace-type cousin. They were always up to something. On this one particular day the two of them were headed down to Quasey Swans, the rock quarry just down the way. At my young age I had no idea of the possible danger I was in jumping from one pile of precariously stacked rock to another. Well, my grandmother did realize and she always seemed to know where I went. Unbeknownst to me she was on her way to retrieve her long lost granddaughter from possible harm. This is when I was introduced to the willow switch she had fashioned along her way. This not only hurt but was humiliating as my two friends watched in horror as I was switched a long the trail back to Grandma's.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
31 Mar 17
I just spanked my daughters with my hand on their naughty little butts. Not hard but enough to learn that I wanted them alive.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Mar 17
That's basically what Grams was doing. Just scaring me I think. Putting the fear of God in me.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
31 Mar 17
@celticeagle Yups!
Good old way of teaching!
Good old way of teaching!2 people like this
@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Mar 17
@marguicha .....Yes, and very too the point don't you think?
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
1 Apr 17
ouch - can almost feel the pain even from reading this
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Apr 17
I remembered not to go there again.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Apr 17
@arthurchappell .....She knew what she was doing.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
1 Apr 17
@celticeagle it would put me off too
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. . . well, not sure which was more treacherous - the rocks or the switch 
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@OreoBrownie (3755)
• Commerce, Georgia
1 Apr 17
Times were different then. It dot the attention of misbehaving kids. I git hit a lot. Got a broke tail bone too from being thrown about. I was out of school for 6 weeks.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Apr 17
I didn't get hit a lot. This was about the only time. I think there are beatings and there are switchings.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
31 Mar 17
kinda sad you weren't warned first, like how did you know it wasn't ok if you were told!
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Mar 17
I think it should be instinctual to some degree. I was with two dare devils.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Apr 17
@Jessicalynnt .....I don't recall it happening very often.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 Apr 17
@celticeagle eh I disagree here. Kids don't think, so a scolding sure, but a switching? I would have scolded and perhaps given a chore for time to think, but not gone right to switching.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
31 Mar 17
she was just showing tough love so you wouldn't get hurt. is the quarry a place you can fall into a lot of water?1 person likes this
@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Apr 17
No water that I recall. She just switched me, not beat me.
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