Michelle should have been belted

I always had a fantasy that one day Michelle would get spoiled and then Danny would pull out the belt and smack her a few times lol

What else

The grown-ups let her eat all the cake samples. So how did you expect a four-year-old to know that she wasn't supposed to do it?

Besides, I don't believe that kids should ever be belted anyway.

Unfortunately, her dad was a total wimp, and "didn't want to destroy her mind with any real corporal punishment." Her uncles were no better in this respect. She had all three wrapped around her finger because she was the cute, youngest little girl in the house. She got away with a lot of things my parents would have never allowed. The one time she was punished, she just sat in a rocking chair in her room, staring at the wall. That only works if the kid is semi-obedient. Some kids would just escape the chair in defiance.

This era was pretty much the beginning of the end when it came to raising children to be decent human beings. Parents were told that punishing a child would "damage them for life" even though it had been done for years with no damage. Every child was getting a trophy or ribbon just for showing up. Sometimes they only had to show up the day to get the ribbon, not even for the activity itself. And don't forget they had to "express themselves" even if it meant being rude.

We still have 'Fuller House' to shoot for, though unlikely.