Go to bed without supper!

[FilmNerdJamie]

My parents were in no way abusive and I have been spanked with a wooden spatula, a belt, a small tree branch that I had to pick out, and an actual spanking paddle. I hate that society today is too reactive and that timeouts are considered punishment. My kids will be spanked.

And no...no off to bed without dinner. You could wake up at 1am and go sneak into the kitchen. Spankings you remembered.

Hammer meet nail.

 

[Boom]

I usually just got threats.

When I was about fifteen, my twenty year old sister and I got in a fight and at one point she said "what are you going to do?" and me realising I was finally big enough to cause her physical pain back responded "I'll punch you in the face", to which my father casually responded to from the other room (without taking his eyes off his book) "You lay a hand on her, and I'll slit your throat while you sleep."

My sister and I were both shocked. We never got in a physical conflict again and every time I've heard of a guy being abusive to a girl, I have the urge to beat the **** out of the guy.

Your father is a champion of men.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

My father could use the fear of the unknown against you so well. One night when I was making a lot of noise, refusing to sleep, he came into my room and told me "If you don't go to sleep I'll take you THERE!" and he would point to the darkest part of the room. I had no idea what the **** he was talking about, but my imagination made "there" seem like a portal to some random scary-ass place. I **** and went to bed.

 

[Immortalfire]

Parents have an uncanny ability to make nothing sound like something.

 

[Boy Scout]

When I was younger, when I did something wrong, I got beat. The only times I go to bed without eating anything is when I choose to.

And I personally don't think there's anything wrong with spanking kids. There's a difference between administering a deserved punishment and being outright abusive. My kids will be spanked. No ifs ands or buts about it.

Heh...buts.

 

[CConn]

Spanking is dumb. My sister and I were absolutely perfect kids without my mom having to discipline us at all.

And the same has been the case with my stepdaughter. If you need to spank your kids, you're doing something wrong as a parent to begin with.

 

[wiegeabo]

Or you could just be the exception.

 

[CConn]

Or you could just be the exception.

No, I refuse to believe I'm at all special or unique in any meaningful way.

As with anything, I firmly believe it merely comes down to having the proper mixture of knowledge, skill, and respect.

 

[WolfCypher]

My mom never made me go to bed without eating. I mean, she wouldn't deny me food if I did wrong (if I chose to not eat, that was on me).

Spanking? Never. My mom just deprived me of my things. Comics, video games, ya know...

 

[munchie64]

Spanking is dumb. My sister and I were absolutely perfect kids without my mom having to discipline us at all.

And the same has been the case with my stepdaughter. If you need to spank your kids, you're doing something wrong as a parent to begin with.

While I don't really know if I can call spanking dumb, since I don't have enough knowledge of the subject, I too can say I turned out fine with no physical punishment.

My mom never made me go to bed without eating. I mean, she wouldn't deny me food if I did wrong (if I chose to not eat, that was on me).

Spanking? Never. My mom just deprived me of my things. Comics, video games, ya know...

Same.

 

[terry78]

Spanking is dumb. My sister and I were absolutely perfect kids without my mom having to discipline us at all.

And the same has been the case with my stepdaughter. If you need to spank your kids, you're doing something wrong as a parent to begin with.

And that's why your no good kids are runnin' wild!!!!!

 

[CConn]

Without going into too much psycho-babble, it really comes down to how you treat your children 24/7, and who they are exposed to.

As a small child, my cousin had a babysitter with some rather awful children of their own, and it seriously messed him up. You could spank that kid until you hit bone and he'd still be just as awful.

 

[WolfCypher]

Plus, one person's definition of "spanking" could be just a disciplinary paddle to the ass, or a actual assault on the child. Parents just have to have a "feel" for spanking. Some kids have suffered serious injury from a parent hitting them.

 

[CConn]

Or they could not do it at all.

Because it's dumb.

 

[WolfCypher]

Agree with you there.

 

[Boy Scout]

You spank the child who needs to be spanked. Not every child is perfect, and not all of them are little monsters. Some of them only need a talking to; some of them need a little more. If you spank them one time and they don't do what you spanked them for again, and from that moment on they think twice about doing something wrong, then obviously you're doing something right. But that's JMO.

 

[SpideyFan866]

Nah. My parents used to spank us with my mom's sorority paddle. My brother and I were pretty much guaranteed a spanking every Sunday. We hated church, and behaved accordingly .

I HATED that growing up. My sunday school teacher would lie and say I was bad and I would get beat because of it.

EVERY FRICKIN SUNDAY!

I got around that though because I stopped going to Sunday school and just sitting with my older brother in the adult service.

 

[CConn]

The worst I ever recall my sister acting, is when she was about 4, she really wanted a pair of shoes at some department store - which she absolutely didn't need - and once my mom said no, she cried all the way back to the car.

She wasn't spanked. She wasn't really even reprimanded that badly. The incident never happened again. A punishment wasn't needed because she had already received enough negative reinforcement by the fact that my mom didn't give in to her demands, and we left the store immediately due to her bad behavior. It showed her that acting out doesn't work; it doesn't get her what she wants. It's just basic psychology.

Although, come to think of it, I do wonder if a child's relative IQ has something to do with how easily they can pick up on more sophisticated kinds of negative reinforcement.

 

[SpideyFan866]

My dad woke me up once and beat me for leaving my TV on. I surprisingly felt nothing due to being too tired I guess.

LOL. Something similar happened to me when I was little. I can't remember what I did, but I knew I was gonna get in trouble so I went to sleep to avoid a beating and when I woke up the next day. My mom was waiting for me to wake up and I immediately got beat.

 

[SpideyFan866]

For all you guys throwing out the wooden spoon, I got beat with a shoe, a belt, and a drum sticks (she dropped one and picked up the other) all in one gauntlet of a beating session.

I love my mom though.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

No, I refuse to believe I'm at all special or unique in any meaningful way.

As with anything, I firmly believe it merely comes down to having the proper mixture of knowledge, skill, and respect.

The fact that you believe you and your sister are perfect is pretty ironic on its own...

 

[enterthemadness]

Wait, hold up...I thought you got banned Asteroid Man?

 

[chaseter]

Hammer meet nail.

I have no idea what that means....probably an old person's saying. Go to your room.

 

[enterthemadness]

I have no idea what that means....probably an old person's saying. Go to your room.

Probably means the same thing as kettle meet pot.

Also, you're grounded for a week mr!

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Wait, hold up...I thought you got banned Asteroid Man?

Why on Earth would I get banned?