Dad FTW

When I was a young ladd I thought my Dad was wrong in every aspect of the way we were raised. At times I remember even hating my Dad. By todays standards my Dad was abusive. He use to beat my *** regular over sometimes minor things. An example was one day he left for work on a saturday, he told me to mow the yard, when he returned home after work and seen the yard wasn't mowed he beat the living hell out of me, I didn't have a chance to get the words out of my mouth "The lawn mower wouldn't start!"
As an adult of 56 years I know he was wrong on some of the ways he handled raising a family. It probably had a lot to do with the fact he was a Police officer. But the funny thing is that as I grew older the more I realized the wiser he was. I too wish I had another chance to talk to him for just a few minutes to thank him and tell him one more time that I love him, But i can't do that since he pasted away 1-7-2010. The only part i don't agree with the way this father handled this situation was the fact that he went public with it on You Tube. And by the way my father didn't make me into a child abuser. I never had to spank my daughter!