STEALING THE SNICKERS

I was interested to read of STEALING THE SNICKERS
By Gordon Jay Alexander that Gordon's father used corporal punishment in the form of a razor strap. That was a very popular method of punishing "bad boys" in my childhood years, at about the same time as Gordon speaks and a few years earlier. NONE of us were the worse for it. My father never drew blood with his strap, though he used it often and judiciously. Every one in our family and those families around us who benefitted from the strap's influence grew into moral, kind, thoughtful, professional people. I can't help but think it's a myth that children (me up to age 17 !) are harmed by the experience of corporal punishment, even as severe as a razor strap, when used judiciously.