“I Was Spanked and There’s Nothing Wrong with Me”

Odille Remmert
4 min readDec 6, 2020

I just saw a post shared, on Facebook, that says “Why we acted right, back in the day — ‘The Belt on the Shelf’” — it’s a comic meme, but I wanted to share some important information about its message.

Many years ago, in a conversation about disciplining children, someone said: “Well, I was spanked, and there’s nothing wrong with me!”

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Odille Remmert

Author of: "Change What Happened to You: How to Use Neuroscience to Get the Life You Want by Changing Your Negative Childhood Memories"