Monday Memory time once again. My Memory is not as good as it used to be so when one comes into this dense brain of mine I figure that I had better get it written down before it leaves me again!!

Yesterday when our daughter Becky and her two Garrett and Maddie were driving home from the waterpark...the kids were fighting in the back seat. As usual I was trying to get them to stop by teasing or anything that I could come up with. MOST of the time and I say MOST of the time, it is Garrett's fault because he just cannot leave his hands to himself. He has to pick!! I told them that there was a BIG yellow line down the middle of the back seat and that they were not to put their hands or ANYTHING across that line. Garrett says, "Grandma, there is no yellow line on the seat!" I say..."Oh, yes there is. I am older than you are and can see it." He keeps up with me talking and talking about no yellow line and keeps picking and picking on his sister. Finally he makes her cry!!

Mommy says, "I am going to pull over right here on this big highway and fix your little behind if you don't straighten up young man!" Course he knows she is not going to do that and just keeps picking and picking.

So I told them about what I did to their mommy.....

She was under 5 I think. I cannot remember her age now. I remember the car we had...an old clunker like we always had then. She was standing in the front seat (remember we always did it that way then). She was giving me a hard time and would not pay attention to me. We were driving in town. I was not going fast...believe me or I would have not done this. I kept telling her and telling her. She thought I would not pull over and spank her either. Finally I surprised MYSELF by slamming on the brakes at a STOP sign. When I did that she flew and I mean flew onto the floor and up under the glove compartment.

I remember her looking back up at me with those big blue eyes that she has like...WHY DID YOU DO THAT!!?? I said, " I told you, didn't I?"

You know she never did that ever again!! I just stop threatening and she listened!!

I think more parents need to stop threatening and do it!! Kids will pay more attention. I know you are saying ...MAN...You were mean...YES and you would be right...I was!! But you will never know how many times I would go and hide and cry about how I disciplined those kids. I spanked!! Oh yes I did!! I know today that I would be taken in by the DSFS or whatever they call themselves in your part of the country.

Any of you that know my children (my grown adult children) know that they did not steal, turn tricks, do drugs, land in jail or turn out to be bad adults. They have families and careers of their own now and lead good, healthy and spiritual lives. Did discipline hurt them? I don't think so.

After I told Garrett and Madison that story, they thought that was so funny. They just laughed thinking that their mommy was thrown on the floor of the car for being mean!! I think it made them think that she was a little rotten kid too....which she was!!! Spoiled is more like it!!

Just one memory that my poor lost brain brought up into my old mind yesterday!! smile!!