My dad used to spank us with an old leather weightlifting belt he had
I had physical punishment beyond what most endure… But the one punishment that really changed me, was my mother saying how disappointed she was in me and refusing to talk to me for what I’d done …(Her silence lasted a day or two).
Adulthood.
“Im not angry – just disappointed”
Ran up a $400 phone bill dialing into BBS numbers out of the back of Infoworld. Had to paint my parents store over the summer. It was an old bowling alley and was huge.