Thanks. That was still a time when you could discipline your kids without someone calling child services, and they got disciplined, and wouldn't you know it, they turned out great and don't hate me.
About 4, 5 years ago we were in a hole in the wall diner in a speck on the map town with our kids (we only had 2 at the time)
My oldest musta been 5 or 6 and he was being mean to his sister
I told him to fly right and when he didn't I picked him up out of his chair and took him to the bathroom
Unbeknownst to me, the walls were made out of tarpaper and everyone could hear what was going on in there
Of course, it didn't help that he is very dramatic and acted like I spanked his cheeks off
When I walked out of that bathroom the entire diner was giving me the stinkeye and by the time I made it back to our table my wife had already paid the bill and was ready to go
Didn't faze me one bit
I got a responsibility to raise them kids and popular opinion isn't gonna change that one bit