Have you ever been a bad little boy/girl and needed your mommy to give you a nice firm spanking on your cute bare caboose?

[stepee]

What is the worst physical punishment you had as a child growing up? I can remember a super weak spanking I think but that’s about it. I remember Mean Mr Spoon which was a giant wooden spoon my mom would threaten us with but I don’t recall it ever happening and the name I think honestly made it less scary.

[Fizzzzle]

My mom would hit me either with a wooden spoon or would spank me, or would just slap me in the face. My dad never hit either me or my brother except for one time that I can remember. I can't remember what exactly happened, but my dad drug my brother up the stairs by his neck and beat him. I remember even my mom was like "you might have taken that too far." My dad was generally threatened as the "don't make me tell your father" kind of person, but he never actually did anything except that one time, except for the odd spanking. Or I guess when my dad spanked us it was a lot harder (that sounds gross to say). Generally my mom dolled out the punishment and my dad was used as a threat to say "if you thought THIS was bad!"

 

My parents split up by the time I was 11 or so, and my mom was tiny. My dad completely softened and transformed into one of my best friends eventually. So when my mom tried the hard ass tactics again, it didn't work. One time she accused me of stealing something that I didn't do, so I grabbed her and pinned her against a wall and told her to leave me the fuck alone. I remember the look in her eyes to this day, like she was legitimately worried I was about to beat the shit out of her (I wasn't). I'm pretty sure me and my brother were out of the house within a few months of that. And then that was the end of that.

 

Don't hit your kids. When kids act out, it's because they're frustrated or sad, or any number of emotions that they just don't know how to communicate yet. Not to say that there aren't times where you should just say "shut up and go cry it out if you want" and put them in time out or whatever, but physical punishment just teaches your kids to bottle up their emotions and act like robots, which they will resent you for later.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

My mom was physically abusive. We still struggle with a relationship. 

[Guest]

Never anything more than spanking with the hand, though there was a looming threat of a belt spanking.

 

Honestly though, my siblings and I were all very well behaved kids and rarely did it get to the point of any punishment after maybe age 5-6.

[Brian]

Never got hit. My dad got upset with me once and wanted to hit me but I outran that fat boy. I went to my friends house and called home saying “I’m staying over”. He was flying to China the next morning so I just waited him out. He got over it. 

[Kamusha]

Yeah I was abused both physically and sexually. But I'd rather not get into the specifics.

[Best]

I was hit with a spoon and a belt if it was something really bad. Twins are nothing but trouble between the ages of 2-12.