Guest TennesseeTurkey Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 in Knoxville from the local talk radio guy was spanking your child with a belt.... Do you spank or were you spanked with a belt? Whats your stance on punishment for children..... Here's mine... My son Mason is about 2 1/2 years old and dosen't do any talking that you can understand except "hey and "kitty"... Well.. He know's what you say like sit down, or come pick this up, or time to go to bed ect... 2 nights ago I was trying to start a fire in the wood stove (stove was cold) he came up to the stove and started hitting it with his palms fairly gently. I told him NO dont do that (if it were hot of course it would've hurt him... I walked him into the living room and sat him down on the couch and said stay here for a minute. He stayed where he was until I stepped out on the porch to get a piece of wood and sure enough he got up went to the stove and started again. He then saw me walk into the house and ran back to the couch to sit down. I proceeded to light him up because he knew what he did wasnt what i told him to do (besides the stove was getting hotter) He hasnt went near the stove since... I was whooped with a belt by my dad until my parents divorced and the few year I was in school I had straight A's... with I lived with my mom after the divorce and did what I wanted from day 1.... I ended up with a 2.3 GPA to finish HS... I believe they are connected... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Sauceman Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was spanked with a wooden paddle, board, rope, razor strap and whatever else could be grabbed at the time. I usually spanked my kids with my hand and when I really needed to get something across (although rare) I used a belt. and that is all I spanked my children with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUNTINGMAN Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was spanked with belts and switches off of trees. That's the problem now days is that you can't spank kids and show the diceplin without feet of going to jail for child abuse. If kids were spanked the way they used to be then there wouldn't be near as many weirdos out there,kids would be more respectful also. I just give mine a pat on the butt every now and then because I don't want them going to school telling there teacher or someone that there daddy beats them,that's all I need is to have the social workers at my door with the cops. I have found that if I take something away from my kids for a while that they realy like and send them to there room it works pretty good. Every now and then they get a good whippen just to remind them what it feels like so I can get the bluff on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 yep. i was spanked with a belt and a rubber hose. sometimes welts came to my but. it taught me that i'd never spank any child of mine with anything but my hand. for the (very) few times i had to spank my kids, it was bare hand on bare butt. i knew when my hand and heart hurt too much, to quit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texastrophies Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was usually spanked by hand, but remember a few where a belt and a switch from a tree was used. For my son, I usually spanked by hand when it was needed. After he got older to where I couldn't get my point across with my hand, he got it with a belt. I believe that happened 3 times. We have now come to an understanding, we joke and goof off, but he knows that when I use the serious tone of voice, he needs to do what I say, and he does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was spanked by hand and by belt...usually with my father's belt. In those days they even gave spankings in school too. I spanked my son with my hand but on 1 special occasion I did use a belt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUNTINGMAN Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 Man I can't even began to count the parroting I got in school. One of my tea hers,mr. Russle,he was the worst. I have seen him paddle so hard that it would lift kids feet off the ground and they would start crying. He had a huge paddle with blacktape around it and holes drilled in it to cut down on wind resistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcot2773 Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was spanked with a hand, and very rarely with a belt or switch. I will spank my daughter with my hand only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMAN Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was spanked with a belt, switch, a board, or just about anything that was handy at a time. If more kids today had a good bottomside education there wouldn't be as many problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was spanked by hand mostly but my parents would occasionally bring out a horse whip. I spank my kids by hand. I have not had a reason to use a belt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unioncountyslayer Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was spanked as a kid, but only with the palm of my Dad's hand. I have no problem with spanking and feel it's a very effective tool in disciplining. Just don't do it in public or the cops will haul you off. :chair: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebohio Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 have 3 sons that have never been spanked. they are very polite well behaved children. two of them are strait a students. the other is an autistic child but does very well considering. my parents beat me but i saw no need for it raising my children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okiedog Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 That brings back memories of little league baseball. I'am suprised those trees around the ballfield survived. There were always more limbs sicking up out of the stands than there was sticking out of the trees. :no::whip: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was never spanked as a child. Slaps were more common. My Mom had these lightning hands and was a very accurate slipper thrower to boot. I never saw the slaps coming or the slippers flying until I got hit.. As I graduated to teenhood and grew. Moms slaps were laughable. Then Pop took over :48:. "Wait til your father comes home" were words I dreaded... Pop broke my nose once because I backed his new Caddy into a fire hydrant when I took it to school, and I lied about it when I was 17. After that all it took was a look from my old man and I led the straight and narrow. My 3 boys(19,17,14) have all challenged me at some point. They are all bigger than me, have seen me angry and I try to go with the "mean look" to avoid anything physical and tell them not to test me. So far so good. My wife loses patience and swings at them when they are fresh. They take it and laugh. Wait til your father gets home...the cycle continues. I went to all boys Catholic High school and the Jesuit brothers there were quite free with their hands...NO...I don't mean that way. They had no tolerance for talking back. Bloody noses and slaps upside the head were the norm for not doing your home work. ect..But that is another story. With all the beatings and slaps I was still able to maintain a mid 80's avg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kat Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I got whooped with a belt and a paddle. I just asked dad why not his hand and he said you can hurt your child worse with your hand due to your bones??? My mom beat my *** with shoes lol. We would be at walmart and I'd screw up and off came the shoe Cash gets his hand smacked pretty often but has only gotten 2-3 whippings that he felt. I could tell by his reaction he didn't understand and til he speaks words, I will not spank him again with any amount of force. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kat Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was spanked as a kid, but only with the palm of my Dad's hand. I have no problem with spanking and feel it's a very effective tool in disciplining. Just don't do it in public or the cops will haul you off. :chair: Perks of living n Oklahoma I guess. The cops here would help your dad out and hold ya down lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 yep. i was spanked with a belt and a rubber hose. sometimes welts came to my but. it taught me that i'd never spank any child of mine with anything but my hand. for the (very) few times i had to spank my kids, it was bare hand on bare butt. i knew when my hand and heart hurt too much, to quit. Same here Steve. Being raised by an abusive father, I learned one thing..There is a thin line between abuse and discipline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I got the odd spank only by hand though. Don't have any kids yet but I imagine it'll be the same, nothing but a whack in the rear end if they really deserve it. Don't think I'd be able to spank them with a belt etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Got my rear end beat with a belt, hair brush, coat hanger, wire end of a flyswatter, probably a few things she could grab that I don't remember. Mostly my mother doing the disciplining. My kids usually get things taken away, however they have gotten spankings on several occasions and have on a few rare occasion with a belt from the wife. Like Steve said, remember too well and said to myself I would never do with my kids how I was done. Sure does hurt the parents heart, kids eventually learn when they grow up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Mom used a paddle, dad used his hand or he kicked us. I never used anything but my hand and foot, except for one time when my son hit his sister with an arrow of mine, so I used it on him once, he didn't like it, and to my knowledge, he's never touched an arrow since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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