Do you want a spanking?

Please get your mind out of the gutter... That's not what I mean.

I'm talking about when you were little and your parents would ask you that asinine question.

"Do you want a spanking?"

There's only one answer to that question. Well, there are a couple:

- Sure... why not. I haven't had one in a while
- Depends... Which one of you is doing the spanking?
- Yes, but do you know who REALLY wants one? Evan (my brother)

Not sure any of those is really appropriate and at age seven definitely not worth the risk. So really, there is only one answer.

Still, you had to do something right? You knew that ultimately you were going to say no, but you had to drag it out. For pride's sake. So you stood silent, glaring... running down the clock. Then your parents would catch on and call your bluff.

"DO YOU?!"Checkmate.

"No."

"Then knock it off."

I'm sure when I was young I promised myself that I'd NEVER do that to my kids - force them to answer stupid questions so that I could appear all-powerful. But that was when I was young...

I can't wait to have kids. It's gonna be fun. :)