Same question I asked Bob, BOP. Would you beat your daughter like that b/c she DL illegal music from the internet? Straight, honest answer please.
Personally, no. I can't imagine even having to punish either one of them like that when they were that age. Of course at that age, it was difficult enough just keeping the youngest at home. We found out later about the tattoos and the boys.
There would have been hell to pay in the BOP household however. The computer (there weren't any back then) would have been moved to the dining room where one of us could see what she was doing at all times. The illegal music would have been removed from said computer, and at the very least, she would have been grounded for the rest of her natural life. I guess you know which one I'm talking about.
Mrs BOP is so much more diabolical about thinking up punishments, though. I'd probably have left it up to her.
But a belt? Not at that age. I'm a firm believer in "spare the rod and spoil the child," "beat thy child and he'll die not," and most of all "train up a child in the ways he should go, and in his age he'll not depart from those ways." In other words, discipline needs to begin when they're young. Instill a little fear of both mom and dad when they're little, and you'll have less trouble with them when they're older. Which is why there are so much more effective ways to punish them at that age, if you've done your due diligence as a parent.
We had our issues with them, but all in all, they were good kids, and they've turned out to be fine young women, with families of their own.
Including daughters who are just like them.
