- Got my flu shot yesterday (since I was already at the clinic). Feel virtuous. Also feel sore. #
- Who the HELL is mowing their freaking lawn at pre-7 a.m.? If I were, y'know, actually trying to sleep in, I'd be pissed. #
- Watching Law & Order UK on BBC America: Formulaic procedural, quaint wigs, Brit accents, Lee Adama and Martha Jones FTW! #
- Thought I'd get a full car wash in honor of the parents visiting next week. Also, have clean car interior envy of Margie. #
- Holy cow, car hasn't been this clean since I drove it off the lot 6 yrs ago. Leaving a big tip. #
- Browsing Kitten-age-appropriate clothes section at Dillard's. Girl actually has idiosyncratic but decent taste. #NoPink #
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I have not yet had the sublime pleasure of listening to someone’s lawn mower at 7 am. But last night, some new neighbors moved in. And about the first sound out of them was the father spanking his son. The kid started crying and I suddenly realized that my happy days of near monastic silence in my home are probably at an abrupt end.
Wow … that’s … unfortunate.
I mean, I expect to hear sounds from neighborhood kids (at reasonable hours; my bounds for “reasonable” are sometimes, but not too frequently, tighter than some neighboring parents).
But it’s unfortunate that the first sound was a spanking, or that (assuming here, from my own experience) the father let his own fatigue and stress over the moving experience interact poorly with that of his son.
That’s exactly it, Dave! I don’t know the situation but it smells like the father let his own fatigue guide him. I hope I’m wrong about that.
As a parent (though my daughter is now past spanking age), I know that often corporal punishment is driven by more than just a cool, objective view of the situation. I did not regularly spank my daughter by any means, but the temptation to do so was often driven as much by my own frustration as by pedagogy.