I was spanked, smacked, hit with a belt when I was a kid. Never got in trouble.
My younger brother never hit or anything and he's a fucking terror of a teenager. Literally one of those kids the tide pod generation exemplifies
And literally the same with my girlfriend. Her younger brother is 22 and still lives at home with no drivers license, friends, or job
Does/did your younger brother ever receive any kind of significant consequences? I think along with spanking you (and most of us who grew up in the late 80s/early 90s) got spanked as well as other significant consequences.
I work in schools and from what I can tell a lot of the more troublesome kids don't really have ANY consequences for their bad behavior at home. I personally don't believe you need to get hit to turn into a functional/decent person but you definitely need consequences of some sort while growing up.
People are really missing this point. Kids that behave poorly are typically spoiled rotten or have no real parental presence. It's not because parents talking to their kids and punish them forget to throw in some spanking first. ---
