I've talked about guilt a lot on this show.

Ten years I've talked about it.

Wow, how many times I'm only going to look at my computer right now.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, a lot.

And so the reason I bring that up is because somebody wrote to me

and said they're dealing with the guilt of how they treated their now adult daughter, I think,

when they were growing up.

They used a very, I guess, restrictive and disciplinary in style to raise their child, including

corporal punishment.

So there was some bodily strikes of some sort, I'm going to assume.

She wasn't exactly forthcoming with how they discipline their child, but she regrets it.

She feels bad.

She feels like she shouldn't have done that and now that her

daughter has grown she's seeing very hard to deal with behaviors coming from

her including physical abuse.

And there is something to be said about corporal punishment being physical abuse as well.

I'm not going to argue that or debate that here. I myself was hit at least two times that I remember on the bottom when I was younger and it was normal to me. I hated it. I didn't want to face that. I

didn't want to get in trouble. It was normal to me and it was how my dad

disciplined me when I went too far.

Now, for my generation growing up, again, pretty normal for parents to do that,

and now it's not so normal a lot of people are

against it and if I raised a child I don't think I would ever do that to my child

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