Thanks K.

When I was a kid, mom swatted me for hanging on the counter at a bank.

Why?

People were sitting their kids on the counters.....and this was in the days before plastic diapers.

LH,

The stages of learning discipline.

The swat after we left the establishment.
Then the 'Vulcan Skin Pinch' (the meaty inside part of the upper arm)
Should you flinch, back to the swat.
Then it was the "look"...

The look froze you in your place, while you contemplated the punishment.

Then one day, while getting the dressing down from both out parents, the little voice at the ent of the couch says.....

"Mom, can't you just hit us and get it over with?"