Monday, April 21All That Matters

This is what my grandmother used to spank the grand kids with when we were younger.

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  • I feel like most Christian’s don’t understand that their actions speak louder than words. Beating a child out of “love” isn’t loving. Hating homosexuality but “loving” the “sinner” isn’t loving. Hating pre-marital sexual but “loving” unborn babies by not offering any social services for young children isn’t “loving”.

    IMHO there is no hate like Christian “love”.

  • Both of my parents were abused as kids. And they spanked us when we were little. But there came a point when I was 6 and was caught stealing gum out of my mom’s purse. My dad gave me a choice. Get spanked or be grounded for 2 weeks. I chose the spanking but he said he would never spank me again and grounded me for 2 weeks.

  • Just had a Dazed and Confused flashback.

    My buddy used to have to go cut a switch from a tree in their yard.

    If he came back with a branch that was too small, his dad would go get one of his own that was much larger.

    He didn’t remember those times fondly.

  • I was beaten like a rented mule as a child and my mother would always tell me that “one day you will realize we do this because we love you”. I am almost 70, that day has not yet arrived. I quit being hopeful about its arrival sometime in the 60s.

  • Our nana used wooden spoons to smack my older brother and me. We orchestrated a plan to open the drawers like stairs to get to the top where her spoons were and then we buried them in the back yard. We were REALLY young, I was probably three and I don’t remember doing it. My mom likes to recount the story while laughing her ass off.

  • My Mom enjoyed spanking me with her 2 foot board, about 3/8s of an inch thick. I had to sign my name on the back of the board every time she spanked me. On the front it said something like “Never Punish a Child without a clear END in view” With a cute picture of a child bent over, getting ready for another beating, with his pants down to the floor”. NGL ..Shit fucked me up.

  • My grandma spanked my mom so hard she couldn’t sit, and it was mostly over the embarrassment of my mom being a redhead. None of the blondes got that.

    Had a little redhead myself last summer(I’m blonde) and I’m so happy I can have my mom treat him like she always wanted to be treated. She always tells him how beautiful his hair is ☺️

  • I was over at a friend’s house when I was younger and we did something dangerous. I forget exactly what but we’d been told numerous times not to do whatever it was that we did and I recall it being obviously dangerous (something like jumping off the top of a barn onto a hay pile or something similar)

    The friends parents took us to the house and yelled at us all together and then took us one by one into a bedroom after explaining that we were all getting spanked (the mom called my mom and made sure it was ok first so that’s nice I guess?). The friend’s dad had this enormous paddle with holes drilled through it like something out of The Wall. Anyway there’s 3 of us and the older of their two kids goes in and you hear him getting spanked. He got 4 licks and you could hear him cry out after each one. The younger friend goes in and same deal. 4 licks and 4 cries.

    Finally I go in and she says to stand in front of the bed but then she conspiratorially says that she can’t bear to hit me so she’s going to hit the bed and I just need to play along. So she hits the bed and I cry out and pretend that my butt hurts the rest of the day.

    Fast forward several years and I’m in highschool and come to find out, none of us got spanked. The friends mom and her husband had been running this scam for years with each kid thinking that they were special and getting something over on the other kids. It was a mindfuck for awhile but in hindsight it was pretty clever.

  • My dad handcrafted a beating paddle in the garage. Like planned and measured it all out, sawed the curves for a comfortable handle, sanded it down smooth, and then he fucking painted it. Nice little afternoon project to better your ability to inflict pain in your children. We don’t talk very often anymore.

  • Crazy that people still hit their kids/spank them today. We’ve had overwhelming numbers of studies showing it has major negative effects on the kids.

    Hell parents can’t even figure out it’s not ok to hit someone just because they’re too young and weak to do anything about it, that hitting the people most dependent on you and vulnerable is incredibly fucked up.

    But maybe they were struck as a kid too, and this is that mental trauma coming back to warp their view on right and wrong.

  • My mother used to make my two sisters and I hold our hands out palm down so she could strike us with this harry potter wand thing that came with a halloween costume.

    Years later, we were all together, and she was on her phone and began berating someone for physically disciplining her kids. Literally said “At least I never hit my kids or anything”

    We all ganged up on her, calling her out until she cried. To this day she insists she has no recollection of physically disciplining us at all, which is scarier than her admitting it and regretting it.

  • My parents never laid a finger on me but my teachers at school man…. They pulled my ears so bad that they ripped.
    My dad visited the school the next day and ripped a new asshole at my teacher.
    I was never beaten after that. Ever. That was 1988

  • That shit is creepy.

    When my older brothers were little. My mom used to hang out at the park with the other local moms. I’ll shorten the story a bit. What happened was one of the kids acted up and one of the moms pulled a spark plug out of her purse and hit the kid. The thing was it was not even her kid. they looked at my mom and said “Around here we keep each others kids in line” My mom picked up both of my brothers and told them “If you ever touch my kids I will fucking destroy you” and left. My mom didn’t really hang out with the local moms after that.

    We were a no yelling no-hitting house. If you wanted to be loud go outside. We didn’t do arguing or any drama at home. I myself find it incredibly hard to deal with high drama situations

  • I remember being like 4 and my parents would take us to bible study with them. The adults would do their bible study in the living room and all the kids would go to this like lower level den/tv area with a few adults. We would do simple arts and crafts and learn about The Jesus man.

    Something that always stuck with me was when they told us in such a loving voice, big and gentle smiles on their faces, “your parents spank you because they love you”

    It was so confusing to me because I lived in a very abusive household. I thought getting spanked so violently was normal and didn’t really question it really, even though it felt wrong. idk, but that statement made my childhood so much more difficult to resolve that confusing feeling as a kid.

    Don’t hit your kids. You only hit them because it helps you, not the kid.

  • everyone here with a constant form of spanking, damn. My parents gave a nice rotation of hands, belts, hangers, and paddles.
    it’s been a while since I’ve thought about this l, but yeah it was fucked. I guess in my parents defense they really only spanked me, and my younger sister (by 5.5 years) a few times but stopped for our youngest brothers

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