Um, I'm afraid I was dishonest, I gave a wrong impression of my parents and my family. My parents love me and my sister very much. I was rarely spanked. I was never spanked at school. There was an old belt of my Dad's that was missing the poky point part in the buckle that my mom used to spank me. My Dad was often away at work, he worked hard, and smart, to support the family. We also had some nice vacations, and a lot of children are too poor for vacation, I am aware a lot of people did not have what I had as a child, some people had more, but a lot of people had less. The problem is my dad is neat, my mom is messy, I used to be messy but now I am acting more like my dad, cleaning up stuff. When I was a child I had a messy room, both mom and dad were angry with me for it.
Anyway, the parent who spanked me told me why they were spanking me, (sometimes my dad did spank me) and they would hug me afterward and tell me they loved me, and they did what they did to discipline me so I would be good and not do stuff that's wrong. They took us to Disney World, Busch Gardens, Sea world, and to North Carolina Great smoky Mountains. My parents made Christmas and birthdays special, they loved me and played with me.
On Friday evenings we got Lil' Ceasar's pizza and a blockbuster movie. After second grade, in third grade I started going to public school. I was very shy and had trouble talking. I acted a bit weird because I was scared of all the horror stories i heard about public school in private school. I was sent to the school psychiatrist. I learned that the school was good and there was nothing wrong with it. I had a learning disability and was put in special education classes in 4th grade, and in 5th grade I had the same teacher. That lady was an excellent teacher, she helped me out a lot. She was the one that got me started with writing stories. I became interested in creative writing because of her.
I started taking art classes outsdie of school because my mom wanted a hobby for me and my sister. At first the lessons were for my sister, but she had little artistic talent, the art teacher said I had talent, so I started drawing, she helped me draw, I have been taking classesa nd drawing, painting since then. I took art lessons in high school and after graduating, but I've never been to college. My mom has really supported my art, she has bought me a lot of supplies and books, and lessons. Sometimes I had a bad attitude, when i was in middle school, I was rude and pouty to my Sunday school teacher, and my mom threatened to spank me unless I apologized to her. SO I did apologize.
Sometimes I can be rude and grumpy, I have had a bad attitude in the past. The Lord himself disciplined me. He scared me with nightmares. He also took away my pain of depression and filled me with love. I have mental illness in the family on both sides, I have been depressed and psychotic in the past. The Lord has been my savior, my healer.
