What did your parents beat you with?

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » January 13, 2004, 4:37 pm

Curious .. what did your parents beat you with? Mine used belts, perhaps a wooden spoon if handy.
If you were put in timeout you probably have too many issues to list here.

I got suspended for fighting in the 4th grade and made the mistake of playing Hot Wheels while awaiting my moms arrival from work. The tracks went a flying.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » January 13, 2004, 4:38 pm

Hand mostly, frying pan once.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » January 13, 2004, 4:42 pm

Need to add coathangers (Mommy Dearest style) and shoes.

Korell · Post by **Korell** » January 13, 2004, 4:44 pm

My parents were big on the time out method, but they loved to use psychology to make me feel like crap. Really the best way I believe, if you can make the kid understand hes a piece of shit for doing what he did.. he won't do it again.

All spanking does is create really weird fetishs. No way I could spank my kids, because I would start thinking about how I was smacking their mom's ass the night before. I'd prolly sprout some wood and create a whole other problem for the kid to deal with later on in life.

noel · Post by **noel** » January 13, 2004, 4:47 pm

Board/Belt.

And looking back, I'm glad they did it. And I'm looking forward to doing it to my kids. - Dennis Leary

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » January 13, 2004, 4:47 pm

I voted for the "Time Out" option, but that isn't really accurate. My parents never hit me and brought me up believing that hitting children is wrong (this was not an invitation to open that can of worms, I was stating a fact).

I was grounded or yelled at or (usually!) both!

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » January 13, 2004, 4:48 pm

wtf... paddle is not on the list? We're talking about a TOOL specifically made for ass beating! (drilled holes for removing wind resistance to boot!)

Paddle/Belt (old fashioned parents - why hurt your hand when it's your kid that needs the pain?)

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » January 13, 2004, 4:49 pm

So you time out guys never flushed two cartons of Winstons down the shitter and recited to your parents "I mind very much if you smoke!'

Man what an ass beating.

noel · Post by **noel** » January 13, 2004, 4:51 pm

Lol Seebs.

Ash, I thought the holes were for the blistering effect...

masteen · Post by **masteen** » January 13, 2004, 4:53 pm

It's not that my folks beat me a lot, it's that each time was so unusual that it made a big impressions. 2 times with the hanger, once with the shoe, once with the belt vs. like a million groundings.

Laliana · Post by **Laliana** » January 13, 2004, 5:03 pm

Hand and only once with a belt, my brothers got the broom!

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » January 13, 2004, 5:04 pm

I used to have to go get a switch... man, it was hard to find a good one.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » January 13, 2004, 5:04 pm

Switch here...

Drolgin Steingrinder · January 13, 2004, 5:05 pm

Logic, common sense and my own conscience. The last one really stung at times.

Ducru · Post by **Ducru** » January 13, 2004, 5:12 pm

"Blackie" - The belt equivalent of a Howlitzer. 2 inches broad and a quarter inch thick.

Jesus it hurt if they missed my ass. Dad would look at me, roll up his sleeves and say "Go get Blackie". You could almost here my brother thinking "DEAD MAN WALKING" as I scuffled down the hall to the closet where "Blackie" was stored.

I have no children yet, but about a year ago, I looked down at my Banana Republic, black leather belt and rearlized, "Holy Shit!! I own a 'Blackie." Can't wait to have kids now=)

Ducru

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » January 13, 2004, 5:14 pm

hippie parents so time out for me.

now my sister who was a hell-raiser got spanked a bunch.

she is 17 now and exacted revenge on my parents by driving them absolutely crazy.

funny that you mentioned that hot wheels story Seebs. ON a sports talk show here in Atlanta a couple weeks ago the hosts were talking about this exact topic, and a caller called in saying he got whipped with those flexible orange tracks that you would use with your hotwheels/matchbox cars.

he said he could never play with the toy again after that ass beating!!

Rivera Bladestrike · Post by **Rivera Bladestrike** » January 13, 2004, 5:18 pm

Aranuil wrote:And looking back, I'm glad they did it. And I'm looking forward to doing it to my kids. - Dennis Leary

But Dennis Leary later on said, "I got good kids, I love my kids. I'm trying to bring them up the right way, not spanking them... I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done."

Drustwyn · Post by **Drustwyn** » January 13, 2004, 5:19 pm

Spanked with "The Rod of Correction" which was some reference to an Old Testament Bible verse... It was a gigantic paddle that was made specifically for spankings.

My parents would wait until they weren't angry with us, talk about what we did, talk about what we should have done, discuss how doing "bad things" can sometimes have short/long term consequences, spank us, and then hug us until we stopped crying (if we cried).

My mom was a bit more skilled at it than my dad. I was a good kid though, and didn't get spanked much.

Kyria · Post by **Kyria** » January 13, 2004, 5:22 pm

I only remember being spanked with a belt once. My dad kept hitting me because I wouldn't stop screaming, and I wouldn't stop screaming because he wouldn't stop hitting me. It was a no-win situation, and he and I are both VERY stubborn and have to have the last word.

I won't hit my son with an object, but you can be damn sure I'll open-handed spank his little smartass:p

Rivera Bladestrike · Post by **Rivera Bladestrike** » January 13, 2004, 5:23 pm

Whats a switch?

I think the worst punishment I had was having an older brother who liked to beat me up due to the 5 year difference, he would body slam me and damn near kill me and when I started to cry, he would tickle me til I laughed, so my parents came upstairs and see me laughing and go back downstairs.

Vetiria · Post by **Vetiria** » January 13, 2004, 5:25 pm

Wooden Spoons, fly swaters, leather belts, etc...

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » January 13, 2004, 5:26 pm

If sure there is something to be learned from these thus far. no idea what it is, just that older generations were more grizzled.

Example: My father was bit on the lip by his pet dog when he was eight. My Dad's dad went outside and killed the family dog with a shovel and kicked the twitching dog in a stump hole.

I have trouble killing anything with eyelids. Three generations, quite a difference.

Mawafu · Post by **Mawafu** » January 13, 2004, 5:28 pm

Belt and hand mostly. Fly swatter a couple times, wooden spoon once (it broken on first hit), clothes hanger once (that shit HURT!)

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » January 13, 2004, 5:29 pm

My dad used to get mad as hell at me but I was too fast for him, and there was a crawlspace in the basement that he couldn't fit into (he's not fat but he's a big fucker), and my mom wouldn't go in just to pull me out so my dad could whale my ass.

One time I spent two days in there playing with my old toys and reading books until he promised not to tan me.

I firmly believe that spanking is for the parent more than is to discipline a kid though.

Kyria · Post by **Kyria** » January 13, 2004, 5:33 pm

The absolute WORST punishment I ever got was when I was a teenager and my parents would make me sit and watch 'Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman' with them:( Pure torture:(

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » January 13, 2004, 5:34 pm

a switch is basically a stick.

but specifically a branch from a woody bush. if your mom or dad says "go pick yerself out a switch" you go outside, try to determine if a dry branch will whip your ass less painfully than a flexible living branch.

you bring it back in, pull down your britches, and proceed to get whipped.

basically its like caning, but thankfully bamboo doesn't grow naturally in the Southeastern US!

Mort · Post by **Mort** » January 13, 2004, 5:41 pm

Belt here also, he would fold it in half.... "SNAP" it (I still have truama from that sound, even snapping towels makes me cringe) and proceed to beat ass.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » January 13, 2004, 5:44 pm

Don't forget to add rubber hose to the list!

Runcade · Post by **Runcade** » January 13, 2004, 5:44 pm

My mom loved the wooden spoon and the sandal when we were riding in the car. She even broke her hand once cause my brother was the kind of kid that would laugh and say that didnt hurt so she would do it again and again

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » January 13, 2004, 5:45 pm

you forgot the biggest step voro. after you bring in your dry stick, your mom/dad would laugh and tell you that you have one more chance to pick one out, or they would do it.

i always got the hand. i had the belt a time or two, the flyswatter, soap in the mouth, and the wooden spoon, but that broke, so they had to resort to one of them new aged non-stick graphite spatulas with the slits in it. i could (and usually did) outrun my mom while my dad was at work, but i was scared shitless to run from my dad knowing the added punishment would be hell.

Deward · Post by **Deward** » January 13, 2004, 6:05 pm

I got whooped till I was about 12 and then it was grounding after that. I preferred the whippings actually. Wooden Spoon was my mom's weapon of choice till it broke a couple times or we buried it. She always had some asshole she was fucking around that she would get to beat us as well. Childhood was swell!!

There was a wooden paddle once as well but that got buried pretty quick too. Usually I just lied my way out of trouble. My brother was always getting in trouble though and was a laugher so he was grounded most of his life.

Trias · Post by **Trias** » January 13, 2004, 6:17 pm

Ebumar tells you, 'my dad beat me with his cock'

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » January 13, 2004, 6:27 pm

I wasn't spanked too often, but it was usually with the hand if at all. I think my mom would chase me with a fly swatter and threaten me with the wooden spoon, but I was faster and would tear off down the hall to my room anyways. Which is probably where she wanted me because as soon as I was there - time out time. And time out was never really all that much of a torture, since all my toys and books were in my room anyways.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » January 13, 2004, 6:28 pm

The beating evolution:
Hand
wooden spoon
metal spoon
wooden paddle
wooden paddle with hole drilled in for less wind resistance
after the last one broke on my ass we graduated to...
the Riding Crop.

That lasted awhile until I had enough and lit the thing on fire and chased my mom around the house. She never hit me after that.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 13, 2004, 6:51 pm

I was never hit. At an early age I found the phone number to the child abuse hotline and threatened to use it if ever touched! Use your brains kids!

In kindergarten I trashed a bathroom after recess with a friend and got caught. Corporal punishment was still in vogue back then and I got swatted by the princpal. I didn't cry but my friend cried like a baby. What a wuss!

kidding on the abuse phone#. I was spanked one time with a belt.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » January 13, 2004, 7:03 pm

heh, the best day of my elementary school life is when they outlawed corporal punishment. i went into class with a smile reaching both ears. then continued to spend the better part of the rest of my education in the hallway or detention.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » January 13, 2004, 7:23 pm

A wooden spoon reserved for that purpose, until it broke. The extension cord off the frying pan once or twice after that. And of course grounding on occasion.

My kids got a mix of the hand, time out, grounding etc.. depending on the deed. Time out didn't really work for shit that I saw.

We had a cat that bit my son on the face pretty hard. Just sitting on the couch and it leaned over and bit the crap out of him. It was in the pound 2 hours later. It had never liked kids, but had previously been happy just to stay away from them. Really sucked, it was a pretty cool cat.

Lor · Post by **Lor** » January 13, 2004, 7:58 pm

The Hand until I laughed at my Mom, that pissed her off so much she grabbed the belt and nailed me with it.... unfortunatly for me she grabbed the middle and got me with the Buckle... Weeeeee Doggie that stung!!

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » January 13, 2004, 8:03 pm

Probably hand the most, although I have bad memories of plastic spatulas...

Leeroie · Post by **Leeroie** » January 13, 2004, 8:07 pm

Depends on how pissed off my mom was. If she was beyond pissed, then whatever was around, I was gettin tha hell beat outta me. If she's just upset, then a belt. What's worst, is when you have to go out and pick your own switch, and get sent outside to play with your friends so they can make fun of your welps on your legs.

Coatlicue [KoE] · Post by **Coatlicue [KoE]** » January 13, 2004, 8:19 pm

My dad was an abusive father who solved his issues with hitting us with his belt, hand, whatever was in reach for him. I can't even count the times he hit me across the back, the face, the back of my head... When I got bigger and started to become more numb to the belt, he would then resort to literally throwing me around. I've hit the wall and fallen with a thud many a times. My dad is a big guy, about 320lbs, and strong as hell (now he's not, he's a kitten now who I have eating out of my hand when I ask him to do something for me!).

He would hit me for anything... yelling back at him, not finishing my dinner/breakfast/whatever, looking at him the wrong way... and my mom resorted to abuse too because she was always too scared to stand up to him and thought it would be better to beat her children than tell him to fuck off and leave us alone.

After I called the police on him finally when I was 12 years old (the police came and didn't do anything, said that a parent has a right to discipline their children), he got spooked and never laid a hand on me again.

Although, when he was feeling "creative" and was too tired to hit us, he's resort to a different punishment. We had a huge fucking dictionary, musta weighed at least 10 lbs... he would make me hold the dictionary over my head for minimum 3 hours while standing in the corner.. and if I budged for ANY reason, like lowering my arms, bending them, squirming cause I had to take a piss, etc, he'd add an extra hour on there. If you think that is easy, try it sometime...

I hated the belt the worst out of all the physical objects he hit me with, because they always left cuts or welts on my skin. He'd punch me in the face a few times, but at least the swelling went down fairly quickly.. the cuts and welts always burned real bad when showering or even moving around in not-so-soft clothing.

I remember, my first day of 3rd grade.. I had my brand new T-Shirt from a New Kids on the Block concert... and I was nervous because it was the first day of school... I couldn't finish my cereal and so he got pissed, dumped it on my head, beat me across the head and back with his belt, then made me go to school with my clothes all wet with milk and frosted flakes.

ahh the memories

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » January 13, 2004, 8:38 pm

I did get hit once in a blue moon with their hand, but mostly, they made me kneel (on a hard floor) facing the corner of the wall for an hour. That hurt more.

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » January 13, 2004, 8:41 pm

I was never hit, though i was told on my 1st day of school by my grandfather "if any of those little sonovabitches trys to hit you, you hit them back as hard as you can, get sent to the principles office and il buy you a toy"
that and my older brother telling me that i should go to the teacher and tell her "hey mrs______, your a fucking whore", gave me a smooth, trouble and conference free 1st few years of school

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » January 13, 2004, 8:44 pm

Coatlicue [KoE] wrote:After I called the police on him finally when I was 12 years old (the police came and didn't do anything, said that a parent has a right to discipline their children), he got spooked and never laid a hand on me again.

Although, when he was feeling "creative" and was too tired to hit us, he's resort to a different punishment. We had a huge fucking dictionary, musta weighed at least 10 lbs... he would make me hold the dictionary over my head for minimum 3 hours while standing in the corner.. and if I budged for ANY reason, like lowering my arms, bending them, squirming cause I had to take a piss, etc, he'd add an extra hour on there. If you think that is easy, try it sometime...

ahh the memories

godamn, if thats not an incentive to go "natural born killers style" on your parents, i dont know what is

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » January 13, 2004, 8:47 pm

Damn Coat... that makes me really sad just reading it.

Being a Psych major and my Dad being a Psychologist when I grew up they weren't big on spanking or physical punishment and netiher am I. If you do it all the time it becomes meaningless.

For me I was a good kid. I got 3 switchings my entire life and none of them left physical marks. My Dad believed, as do I, that physical punishment is effective as a last resort or when they are endangering their life. I feel it's difficult to argue with #2 but the key to #1 is last resort. Last resort dosen't mean, I've told you 5 times get a belt, it was open definance. I remember all 3 of those but not the actual switching. What I remember more than anything was having to go out to that bush with the little tiny pink flowers and find a branch. All in all it may have been more psych punshment that physical.

My son is almost 14 months old and has never been spanked, yet his teachers at daycare say he is the most well behaved kid in the room and the only one that seems to understand the word "no." A while back they asked if we spanked him because he obviously listened... Heh, I was very quick to give them all a lession in Psych 101 and small children. (ie Tell them no and remove them from the situation, be consistant and don't laugh and don't use the same fun tone, but there is no need to scream) Yes usually they go right back, it takes time but for us so far it's working well.

My first spanking / switching was at age 4 when I kept running out into a busy street to dodge cars at my Grandmothers house. The other two were about 4 years later. If my life haddn't been in jeapoardy I'm sure they wouldn't have done it at what I consider an "early" age. I can't really see spanking a child under 3 or 5 nor spanking them after age 12.

IMHO...

Marb

Legenae · Post by **Legenae** » January 13, 2004, 9:09 pm

I got the wooden spoon once, though I was mostly spanked with the hand on my bottom.

When I got older, they would ground me... though I always found ways to get out of it.

Nilaman · Post by **Nilaman** » January 13, 2004, 9:19 pm

Mom had the spoon and the soap.

Dad had the belt, worn at all times, aside from when he was beating the piss outa me.

Both used their hand if they could not get anything else.

My grandfather used to work in the school I went to, if I was bad then, I was send to him instead of the principal. He used his hand too.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 13, 2004, 9:25 pm

Wooden spoon. All she had to do was raise it and I was terrified.

Tyek · Post by **Tyek** » January 13, 2004, 9:26 pm

wooden spoon and acerbic tone

Arundel Pajo · Post by **Arundel Pajo** » January 13, 2004, 9:41 pm

Why is penis not on the list? Penis needs to be on the list...