It was this post that gave it away 'BTW' - you being female, I mean.
Because I thought he was cute & sweet, ...or because he might soon be as big as me?
That's a lesson my cousin taught me the hard way. I was babysitting him when I was 12, and he was 2.
I refused to spank him when he acted up, even though he taunted and dared me to do it. I didn't have the heart to because of the overwhelming size advantage I had over him. By the time I was 24, and he was 14, he had grown to over 6 feet tall and close to 200 lbs, while I was only 5'6" and 110lbs soaking wet. He beat the crap out of me in a snowball fight one night, and by that point the only way I was gonna spank him, was if he was in a pine box and rigamortis had already set in.