Yesterday on Mark‘s birthday, I joked that it was almost time for his spanking, and he had no idea what I was talking about. He was completely unfamiliar with the concept of kids getting one playful birthday whack on the butt for every year followed by “one to grow on”…
Now I’m wondering if it’s a generational of geographic gap. Was this a Southern tradition or just an old one that has since — mercifully, perhaps — gone away?
