I find it surprising that you teach child psychology. I bet that incident has affected your children more than you like to admit?

By the way, who was supervising the children?

This is an example of a time when one MUST NOT smack:

I am taking your account at face value, the children were simply being childish, showing lack of judgement…they were not being rebellious.

On the other hand you were showing all the signs of an abusive parent: smacking them 20 times each was clearly excessive; saying you felt great and satisfied to get a pound of flesh out of your own daughters’ hide for the sake of your beloved pool classifies as a warped sense of value.

I have 3 wonderful daughters, a nurse, an attorney, and a college prof. We had a beautiful home in Tampa, Fl with a giant swimming pool and a waterfall. It was my pride and joy and I had it enclosed in glass so I could heat it and use it all year with water temp. of 78.

When my little darlings were 6,8,10 they decided to experiment with food coloring to see how much more beautiful they could make the pool. They mixed green, black and yellow together deciding that would be a nice surprise for Dad’s pride and joy. When I got home from a long day at the University teaching child psychology (my major) I looked at what used to be a pool and had turned into something resembling the contents of a cessspool. I never touched my darlings derriers thinking it as crude and brutal. Without even thinking I searched for something long and flat which turned out to be a wooden paint stirrer. I walked into the family room , closed the door and pulled out my weapon. I smacked each of them at least 20 times and left the room with them sobbing like a pet had died. I sat down, turned on the Tv and Dr. Phil was on talking about the negativities of spanking. I verbalized “you asshole” and turned the channel to something else. Minutes blater my little darlings all were on my lap kissing and saying how sorry they were. The boldest (10) said “daddy, you’ll never do that again, will you?) I smirked and said “I hope not”. That was their first and last spanking and it felt great ( to me). $1200 to have the pool cleaned, water jets roto-rooted, cement scrubbed, and filter replaced. Yes, it felt really good and satisfying to torture their buttocks (that one time). I disapprove of spanking, so don’t tell anyone in my class.