Learning How to Discipline8

Her right hand continued to tingle as she drew hard on her cigarette. But she started to feel better, realizing she did something that needed to be done. Through the summer, Missy had to give a few more spankings. There was the time Cody took his black crayon and scribbled all over the livingroom wall, for instance. Or when they boys engaged in a food fight at the local McDonald’s, splattering other customers with bits of hamburgers, fries and ketchup. Or when Jarred hit a girl he was playing with in the sandbox at the public park. When summer was over and everyone, including Missy, went back to school, Penny, the children’s mom, noticed a vast improvement in the children’s behavior. But when they got out of line, all she had to do is say, “I’m going to call Missy and have her give you a spanking” and that got them to behave.