The supple leather bit over and over into my tender cheeks until I was sobbing and could no longer even make out Lani through the tears. I do wonder if, lovely as they are, memories of visits to the farm aren't just sweet on their own, but sweet because they were indeed escapes from the sour and deadly experience of a chaotic and abusive family life. Especially the girl because she was the daughter she never had and she felt sorry for there mother leaving them like that. She has also used the belt again on her bare butt, but those marks also didn't last more than 24 hours - again not illegal here. By continuing to use this site you consent to the use of cookies on your device as described in our cookie policy unless you have disabled them.

When I was 14, my father came home once early as a surprise and saw my mother in the process of hitting me. Her mother held her for a few minutes and then took her to the bathroom to wash away the snot and tears. I've decided to make a separate chapter for each, and the summary is a copy/paste of the actual prompt request that led to me writing it.

and I mean EVERYTHING if you tell her to do something if the tv turns off if I lay down in the bed with her father EVERYTHING. Please check back in and let me know if any of these things work, and what you learn about her behavior, okay? But still I’m honestly not inclined to report anything (would obviously ruin the friendship) but maybe I’m being naive/reckless in not doing so. Four years later, my sister ends up pregnant with a second child, still living with my mother, no income, and not trying to do anything for herself or her children. As they drove to a hospital, he continued to perform CPR on the girl, and when they arrived he ran into the emergency room carrying Jo Jade, yelling “Help, my baby is not breathing,” Nguyen said.

Deep breathing, a glass of tea, listening to soothing or uplifting movement, taking a minute to stretch and give thanks for what’s working in your life, even if it feels like everything is falling apart—those are some of the things I taught myself to do when my kids worked my last nerves. At first, she was using just her hand and the wooden spoon on her bare butt, which didn't leave marks for more than a few hours - which is legal here in [location removed]. Grace, when your mom and I used to get the belt from your grandma, she’d place the last few strokes at the base of our bottoms.

A couple of pillows laid under her body and her hands were grasped behind her neck so that her elbows rested on the bed. She’s stayed over a couple of times before and usually we all have a good time but this time as bedtime approached she was getting grouchy and was being pretty nasty with both of us.

My niece was getting ready to start pre-k but we all knew that my sister didn’t want to be a parent and just needed a reason(s) for us to continue taking care of her by continuing to have children. My son-in-law is a 31 yr old policeman, and he cheatead on my 30 yr old daughter with a 19 yrs old great-niece from my husband's side of the family.SANTA ANA – The attorney for a man accused in the beating death of his 2-year-old niece admitted that he caused her death by spanking but denied that he sexually abused the girl. So, she is using her hand a lot - those marks even if you spank as hard as you can for 5 solid minutes are gone by the next morning. I initially hoped I could talk my way out of it, but as we got closer, the strip of leather in my mom’s hand dashed any hope. For my family, Memorial Day Weekend is also the weekend everyone goes up to by grandparents cabin and helps them open it for the summer. She was afraid I would have drug her 5 year old rear end out of the van and spanked her like she needs.

She has two children, a 3 year-old son and an 8 year-old daughter, who is quite the strong-willed handful. She said it’d help us remember our punishment whenever we sat down for the next week, and it was effective. Her eyes snapped shut, and a grimace of pain spread across her face as I heard her strap make contact before mine. The reason my sister got in trouble before was that, like what we got growing up, she spanked to the point where marks would be there for days and days; bruises and welts. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, so the fire in mother's eyes was more than equal the brat daughter's.BabyCenter supports Group Black Opens a new window and its mission to increase greater diversity in media voices and media ownership. I can still remember the three times it happened to me and the pain Grace must be feeling right now. He realized then that I hadn't been lying when I first told him about what was happening -- that I was telling the truth, and my sister and my mother had been concealing everything from him.