It’s so scary to me how prevalent spanking children as a form of discipline is just so prevalent in the black community, there are way better ways to discipline your kid that doesn’t involve hitting them ‼️ speaking from personal experience my mom would spank me all the time as a kid, sometimes she’d even hit me with the metal part of the belt or she’d purposefully use small/thin belts since she knew they’d hurt more.

this experience has definitely severely strained my relationship with my mom. I remember what she would do as well is she would spank me but get angry at me for crying at being spanked. Like what sense does that make ?? And there were times where I’d cry so hard the neighbors would call the cops worried for my well being and everytime the cops came they never did anything because it’s legal in my state.

I remember when I got older (13 ) I began to fight back and defend myself when she tried to discipline me this way and she would complain that I was being “defiant” and that she just didn’t know how to control me anymore which is very telling 😵‍💫?? She would lie and say I was being out of control, just because I was defending myself now against her trying to harm me ??

Anyways long story short, if I ever have kids in the future I promise I’m never spanking them.