How were you disciplined as a child?

During my earlier years, I was spanked. Just a few swats with a switch or a belt. I wasn't really spanked that much; I can still remember each spanking incident. Then as I got older, my parents moved to a new method. They use to make my brother and I hold out our hands and they would just hit it with a belt. That method really wasn't effective bc we just laughed every time they did it so they stopped that and just made us stay in our rooms for a couple of hours. Pre-teen years, for our punishment, we had to write sentences over and over again. You know those type of sentences they did in school: "I will not......." Teen years, we were given a stern lecture and put on punishment for like a week but in reality it was a day because we would just apologize and our parents would just let us off. The real punishment there was the lecture bc it would hurt us to think that we disappointed our parents so we actually took their words of advice

I would give my parents' discipline skills an A+. I turned out pretty good. I know the difference btw right and wrong; I do right most of the time. I respect authority figures. I didn't rebel or wild out once I got into college. I respect and carry myself like a young lady in public. They taught me there areconsequences when you do wrong and you will reap the benefits when you do good.

Our dad spanked us and our mom stood us in the corner, both were equally effective but I'd rather take the spankings because they were done with immediately, standing in the corner took half an hour.

I got a butt whupping. I never really got into trouble as a pre-teen and a teen to warrant a specific method of punishment. I remember when I first got online and I was addicted to AOL....as a punishment for something I did, my mother would forbid me from going online by taking the keyboard. My dad even cancelled the service at one point.

I really wasn't an out of control kid, so I wasn't disciplined that much. My parents weren't above going upside my butt, and it happened a few times, but by and large I'd be put on punishment for the day (or week.)

My parents used guilt. If I messed up small, they would just make me feel bad for eating there for free and stuff like that. If I messed up big, Dad would say he would kill himself.

I have to remember that my parents were just in their early 20s when I got most of my ass whippings. hand, belt coat hanger. Nothing specific and it wasn't constant. Looking back, I don't think I was abused. But come to think of it, I don't think my little brother ever got (or at least no where near) the whippings I got. Little bastard!

I got the occasional whuppin', but for the most part I was put on punishment.

Marc™ wrote:I got the occasional whuppin', but for the most part I was put on punishment.

Basically the same for me. If I stepped too far out of line, then they would handle it accordingly; depending on what I did, and what kind of mood they were in. Overall, though, I basically was just put on restriction from whatever it was they knew I liked. TV, phone, friends, etc.

Nhaiyel wrote:

Basically the same for me. If I stepped too far out of line, then they would handle it accordingly; depending on what I did, and what kind of mood they were in. Overall, though, I basically was just put on restriction from whatever it was they knew I liked. TV, phone, friends, etc.

My parents tried that taking away the TV thing once when I was 7, did not work, I did not care. Which was odd because I watched TV all the time, knew all the shows, never wanted to miss an episode, but the day they said I couldn't watch it, I had better things to do.