I've been asked quite often when and how I discovered spanking. I can't quite remember what sparked it, but I do remember this moment clearly...

I was in the 4th grade, so I most likely 8 as it was early in the school year. To continue, I was flipping through the literature book rather than working the word search that related to the story we'd read, and I found this poem.

I talked about a kid who was always late and blamed it on the watch. Then one day the kid skipped, and the parent found out. And again, the faulty watch was blamed. It then went on to how the back of the watch was taken off, and he (the father) took his time adjusting the watch so that the kid would never be late again.

It didn't come out and say that the kid was spanked, but that was what I had inferred from it. And no, we didn't ever read that one in class.