“Sometimes You Gotta Smack your Kids…. Keeps them in line.”

Today, the above statement was lobbed like a hand grenade into a conversation among several of my colleagues.  I cringed when it was so carelessly tossed out, and haven’t been able to shake the pit that has been living in my stomach ever since.   To think that there are normal, everyday people who believe this, causes my heart to break a little.

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