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[Rabbi_Vole]

Open palm? switch? ruler ? rolled up newspaper? leather belt?

Corporal punishment has fallen by the wayside the last 20 years or so, but many of you are old shits like me and weren't quite "spared the rod." So what was the poison of choice for the authority figures in your life growing up?

My parents mostly spanked open palm on either the backs of our legs or bare bottoms. The belt was often threatened, but rarely used. Usually a "just wait till your father gets home" and a few audible pops of the belt were enough to keep us in line. At school, they would use a ruler. It stung a bit, but I usually had to feign pain to get them to stop. One of my grandmothers would use a used fly swatter.

The worst was my grandfather's house keeper. She would watch us on occasion and if we acted up, she'd make us pick our own switch from a tree outside and then whip us with it.

 

[EscoBlades]

Anything within reach. Pretty sure i have scars from almost every kitchen utensil that wasn't a knife.

Nigerian parents didn't mess around.

 

[Lothar]

I wasn't. My parents liked me.

 

[Ivan 3414]

I wasn't. My parents liked me.

Please don't open up this can of worms

 

[HUELEN10]

I was never spanked, or spoiled.

My parents weren't abusers, and I feel sorry if anyone's parents here abused them.

 

[Fix-It Felix. Jr.]

Lots of backhands.

 

[eddie4]

backhand

Spoiler

when i told my mom to fuck off and go fuck her mother. i was a little shit.

 

[Metalingus5150]

Fear it

 

[BaronMonstro]

I've never been spanked, but my father was occasionally. Though he realizes in retrospect he got off pretty good for the time, only ever had the belt once.

Though he did get smacked with a boat paddle by the principal a few times.

 

[backflip10019]

I think I got a spanking from my dad with his bare hand once and never again. It put me in line, but I also think he felt bad about it.

 

[HORRORSHØW]

Fists, belt, stick, coat hangers, bamboo rods. Good times.

I'm Korean.

 

[thesoapster]

Open hand. Belt once.

 

[Anteater]

 

[Aeana]

Just open hand, and only in severe cases. My parents never used any actual weapons. Honestly, after age 5, I only remember getting beaten once for disappearing for an entire day without telling anyone where I was. Ended up going several miles from home with a friend. Scared my parents to death.

 

[gamz]

Wooden spoon. Until it broke. lol

My father never touched us. Never had to, when he talked we listened.

 

[vainya]

Spanking was rare, but when I was spanked it was with whatever was lying around. Sometimes the hand, the switch, the belt that was bought exclusively for spanking, the comb, etc.

 

[Lovely Salsa]

I got hit hard, fell on the ground and he started kicking me until I almost passed out. I was 6....fuck him

 

[Daffy Duck]

I got the slipper twice.

 

[echoshifting]

.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

I paid for it.

 

[Linkark07]

Leather belt. But only when I was a little kid.

 

[Tom Nook]

Belt from Dad, Slipper from Mom.

....not good times.

 

[commedieu]

with my moms college paddle. Rised greek letters..

Belts, hands, and once a switch from a tree.

I wont be beating my children....

 

[Kas]

Wooden spoon, hair brush, hand.

All that good stuff.

 

[bjork]

I got into a ball on the floor and was punched in my back repeatedly. Then when my dad got home, he spiked my boom box into the floor, destroying it. Another time, he grabbed the bottom of a recliner I was sitting in and flipped it completely over, landing on me. I'm glad those people learned how to settle down.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

I had good parents, so I wasn't.

My grandfather would stick my dad and his brother's heads through walls when they were growing up, so he swore to never be terrible.

 

[disappeared]

Open hand on the ass. Only a few times when I did something stupid.

Once with a meter stick from my first grade teacher.

 

[MrNelson]

Open palm pop on the butt usually, never anything that hurt.

Got the belt once, but in all fairness it was a situation where I really fucked up.

 

[Reverend Funk]

verbally

 

[GeordieMark]

When I was a little kid it was usually a smack on the bum. As I got older, a clip round the ear was fairly common. I don't care though. Smacking was pretty much the norm back then, and I know my parents did everything they could for me. I had a pretty happy childhood and I wasn't an angel.

 

[Violence Jack]

My dad's large calloused hands. A coat hanger, go get a switch, mom's belt.

 

[ironcreed]

*Edit*

Nevermind. It's in the past and personal.

 

[LyleLanley]

Stone Cold Stunner.

 

[Ensoul]

All the time. My mother used to hit me with a paddle, belt, spatula and her hand across my face. She used to scream like a lunatic and throw chairs in my direction. On top of that break my shit as well when I was not behaving. Lots of fun growing up in my household.

 

[DBT85]

Only ever on the backside with the flat of a hand, once in any given sitting until maybe 5 or 6? I don't recall.

I don't think it did me any harm and I have no issue with my parents doing it, however, enough studies say otherwise and so I'll not do the same with my kids.

Genuine sorrow at some of the posts here.

 

[giancarlo123x]

I wasn't. My parents liked me.

Lmao

Anyways, open hand and belt on rare occasions. Sandal a couple of times.

 

[paradise_circus]

rarely with the open hand from my mum. it never was severe though.
edit: flying sandals were always funny and it war more like a cynical "fuck off" than punishment.

 

[Haunted Tank]

 

[Sapiens]

Wooden spoon across an open hand.

 

[Nightbird]

With this:

either the plastic, metal or wooden one, depending on what my parents got in their hands first

 

[E92 M3]

Open hand, but not too often. It wasn't a big deal for me.

 

[Morat]

Never?

 

[sensui-tomo]

Jesus, some of these posts make me feel great that I was only "spanked" on the butt twice in my life for stupid shut. Some of you guys have shit parents who deserve jail time.

 

[Aeriscloud]

Usually with a belt, bare ass.

Only by my step father.

 

[FLEABttn]

Open hand once that I can recall. My Mom found out my Dad did that and it didn't happen again.

 

[Alcoremortis]

Open hand at least once that I can remember, when I was really really little.

I think either my parents felt bad about it or realized that my brother and I were far more affected by them being visibly angry or sad.

 

[Trouble]

My mom has a master's degree in early childhood development. So yeah, I wasn't spanked.

 

[guek]

Belt, brush, wooden spoon, open palm.

Most often I'd have time out facing a corner, arms raised for 30 min.

 

[DukeLongfellow]

Open hand. But that wasn't what hurt. What hurt was the ripping of Pokemon cards right after.

 

[psylah]

Once by my father with his belt, for failing a spelling test.

After that, I developed excellent spelling and grammar.

Thanks, dad.