Coming up with this blog has stressed me out, so I have put it off till 11 pm to write it. Everyone has picked really good controversial topics to write about and have grabbed interests of other students. I know I talk about random topics in class but coming up with a topic to blog is extremely difficult and I don't know why. All I know is a blog is place to express ones opinion in hope of finding someone who shares the same thoughts. 

     I love talking about my childhood because I had an amazing childhood. Growing was so much fun. I'm the oldest child and have two younger siblings, one brother is 16 and the other is 10. My family was  extremely close and my father basically raised us all while my mom was at work. The other day I started to talk about how my father would discipline us. While this isn't probably acceptable to do anymore, my father would spank us. I rarely got spanked as a kid but my brothers got spanked countless times. Now that I look back on it, I think its hysterical that my brothers would try to test my dads patience, but his patience never changed. They both knew what was going to happen but kept egging him on. Soon enough my dad was up and spanking my brothers then sending them to their rooms.

   I don't find anything wrong with this type of punishment at all, maybe because I raised this way, but I would discipline my children the same way I was raised. It's not abuse, but a way to teach our kids who is in charge. I wouldn't want my children to talk back to me. I would want them to show me respect and learn nothing in life comes without some sort of punishment. I was never allowed to curse as a kid, the one time I did I called my nanny "stupid" and got my mouth washed out with soap. I never cursed again until about middle school. The message got across clear for me. I also learned never to talk back to adults or there would be a consequence waiting for me when I get home. I have no complaints about how I was raised or discipline. Personally I think it was effective on me and taught me things that are useful today. 

   How you discipline your kids is all personal preference but talking about it or deciding to spank your kids or wash their mouth out with soap shouldn't bother people I think. I learned my lessons and never cursed at an adult again. Like I said its all personal preference but I have nothing wrong with spanking kids.

    Like I stated in my introduction, Im blogging about this topic to see if I share any of the same opinions with anyone else, and the fact I stressed about this and for some reason spanking children came to my mind as a controversial topic.

There isn't any professional woman's lacrosse team, besides the united states team. This means after college I enter the real world, and playing the game I love ends. Personally I think its awesome that pro athletes get payed to do what they love, and the amount they get payed is just icing on the cake. If I ever had the chance to play lacrosse professionally and get payed to do it, I would. Its something I have been doing all my life and have worked extremely hard to get where I am. The amount of time and money people put in to become great athletes, in a way all the time and effort that was put in is being payed back to them in professional leagues. I do agree though sometimes the amount they get payed is extreme, but wouldn't want all that money, I know I would. I do agree with Jack that baseball and basketball should educate their players about how to handle money. Its an important life lesson to have and after sports end, the real life kicks in hard and doesn't care if you were an important athlete or not.