sadly, it takes me back to my own 'juvinile delinquint' youth.....

i know what you mean too. I was a little hell raiser ma self.

Spanking a little boy on his bare bottom in front of the entire class ? That's so cruel, it's criminal !

I grew up in some harsh orphanages in Norway during the 1960s and 1970s and back then this sort of "punishment" was something that happened all the time. Also the staff could sexually abuse the children and get away with it. Beatings, starving, physical and mental abuse. The staff taking advantage of every weakness the children had. It was hell on earth. All done in the good name of christianity, of course.

But ... growing up to be an extremely angry and violent young man, weighing more than 300 pounds, could spell trouble for the staff when you met them later in life ... but that's another story. And not one I'm about to tell about. Thankfully I have found peace now.

But this spanking scene - in Joe the King - was sad to watch and took me way back ...

Frank Booth: You stay alive, baby. Do it for Van Gogh.

For all the people who saw this film and were reminded of their own childhood...

I wish you all the peace in the world, that your lives have gotten better, and that your children have better parents than you did.

Whatever you wish for me, I hope you have twice as much.