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Truth be known, I have spanked my oldest daughter who is four years old twice in all of her life. The first time was when she was about two years old. I was loading them all up into the car. I was leaned into the car trying to strap down my youngest daughter into her carseat and when I turned to lift my four year old into the car I instead found her running towards the road. She made it about two steps onto the road before I caught her. I grabbed her up and gave her one swat on the butt. Nothing hard but it was enough to hurt her feelings. I would never spank my kids hard. I explained to her that the reason she got a swat was because the road was quite dangerous and that she could get very hurt. She cried and it broke her heart. The thing about that is, it hurt me too. It broke my heart to hear her cry. But I knew that had I just told her no firmly that there was a chance that she might try doing that again. After that day, she never did try it again. The second time was when she was helping me empty groceries out of bags. I took a jar of peanut butter from her and turned to put it up in the cabinet. She hollered, "Look mama, I'm a ghost." I turned back and she had pulled one of the plastic bags over her head. Once again I swatted her. For everything else she has always been put in the corner. Those two situations that could have turned out very life threatening though, she was swatted for and then explained to why it was that she was swatted. I know it broke her heart but I would rather break her heart and have her but hurt for a minute then not have her here with me at all. And you can ask my daughter "Who loves you Ally?" And her response everytime is "My mama and my daddy." You should never, ever spank your children when you are mad. If you are mad, walk away and take a breath. And you should NEVER, EVER use an object or anything other than an open palm to spank your child. And as I said, I only spanked in those two situations which could have turned out very harmful to her. Other than that, I don't spank them.