What is the worst punishment you were given as a child?

[PartyPooper]

Poll question: What is the worst punishment you were given as a child?

I was just wondering cuz of all the threads talking about punishing children.

Well, for me, I was spanked and beaten with belts and coat hangers.

PartyPooper was a good kid. But, I had an abusive parent. :-(

What about you?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

1. Of course I was an angel

But my parents begged to differ and spanked me with a belt or an Oklahoma Sooners paddle (SHUDDER!) when my brother got me in trouble.

[notadmblnd]

2. my mother would hit us with those paddle ball paddles

so hard she broke them on our butts or dad would do the "line up" "who did it" routine until one of us confessed. The routine consisted of lining us up (there were 4) grabbing our hands one at a time (so we couldn't get away) and hit our butts with a hand or belt until one of us confessed. We would have to watch the others hop around and scream. Sometimes I took the blame just to get his little ritual overwith.

[alittlelark]

3. I said 'all of the above' - that's why I don't spank.

It is just plain WRONG to hurt children to 'teach them something'. Didn't they do that at Abu Ghraib? Teach them a lesson to respect authority? They knew they had no info..

[progmom]

4. My parents took my stereo away for 10 weeks

For doing poorly in science.

:cry:

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Other-I was beheaded

Seriously, my father did the toy crushing thing. I had a favorite wind up alarm clock when I was 9, and he lost his temper and stomped it. It really hurt.
The idea of taking a kid's toys and deliberately breaking them is abhorrent.

[goodboy]

6. IT was....soap...poisoning...I got soap in my mouth all the time

[rug]

7. I peed my pants in kindergarten and

was forced to sit in the sink the rest of the day

[PartyPooper]

12. That's a terrible punishment!

I used to "wet the bed" and I was ridiculed for it, too.

:-(

[neebob]

8. Well, I got smacked a few times and grounded for 9 weeks, but really,

the worst punishment involved peas. I didn't want to eat them, and my dad said I had to stay at the dinner table until I finished them. It was the deal where, if you don't eat them, you get them served back up for breakfast and lunch and dinner until you either eat them or starve.

So I sat there, staring at the peas, until they got cold, and then they were even worse than they started out. There was something wrong with them to begin with - I forget what. Normally, I liked peas. Anyway, I had this brilliant idea to put salt on them, but I put too much. Then I tried to balance it out with pepper - which was nasty, so I poured milk on them. That was icky, too, so I tried to wash them off under the faucet.

Unfortunately, Dad returned to the kitchen, saw the peas that had fallen into the sink, and picked them out and put them back on my plate.

Eventually, I ate those peas. It took about three hours.

[PartyPooper]

11. Straight out of "Mommie Dearest". The same went for me!

Instead of peas, it was poached eggs and sour milk! UGH!

I can't tell you how many times I was able to dump all of this down the sink...or, in the closet just to get some peace.

:-(

[neebob]

15. I've never heard of that combo

Was the milk sour on purpose?

[PartyPooper]

17. It was a "side" drink. And, it was waaaay past it's expiration.

:puke:

[graywarrior]

9. I was forced to live with them til I was old enough to escape

day after day after day living with a herd of freaks

[Sporadicus]

10. The 'Switch'

A switch is a supple tree branch, slender and deadly. My father would select a switch with excruciating attention to detail - selecting one of the proper length and bendability. He would pull the branch from the tree, grasp it at one end, pull it through his other hand as it stripped away the leaves. Since I usually ran around in shorts, there was no need for the further humiliation of pulling down my pants. I'm sure he laid on the lashes with as much finesse as a Singaporean martial artist caning an American lad for spitting gum on the sidewalk - and I'm also sure the caning couldn't have stung any worse. The welts on my legs would last for days afterward. Fortunately, the switch was reserved for only the most heinous of transgressions.
:scared:

[msgadget]

24. Southern dad?

A lot of Southern kids (or those raised by Southern parents) had to go get the switch that would soon sting the bad right outa them.

[patdem]

55. Yes, the switch, only we were forced to pick our own...

Our grandmother would send us out to pick our switch...of course at first we would come back with 3" sticks...but we learned better...we at least did not pic the 3" diameter switches...A VERY southern tradition!

[msgadget]

56. Ah, such fond memories.

LOL! To have to choose the instrument made it a double torture. All that time searching for the branch, anticipating what was to follow...

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. I was given the strappado for not mowing the lawn.

Sure beats that blood-eagle, though...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

34. Thumbscrews were used liberally in my home

as was the gridiron - :scared:

[Beware the Beast Man]

36. At least you didn't get the Iron Maiden for not eating your veggies.

I had a bad "Aces High" earworm for months...

[Wat_Tyler]

40. I was regularly defenestrated on civic holidays.

[Lerkfish]

44. you were thrown out of plate glass windows???

[Wat_Tyler]

45. Sometimes plate, sometimes stained.

Of course, there was always staining afterwards.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. OMG! I had my butler revoked for a week once, and then, when I was

a teen, my parents took away my BMW for TWO WEEKS! In the middle of summer, no less!! I had to be chauferred around in dad's fuckin' Rolls by his old-ass driver. Talk about embarassing!

Assholes. I hate my parents. I've never lose those scars.

[PartyPooper]

16. I'm sure you deserved more punishment than that!

:spank:

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. I think that was enough! The humiliation was awful.

And taking away a kid's butler? What the hell is up with that? No kid should have his butler taken away.

It was cruel, and traumatic.

My towels weren't warmed up when I showered. I had to go to the kitchen for my breakfast. AND make it myself. My room got all dusty that week.

Oh, it was awful. I can't even say any more.

[WMliberal]

18. my butt met my dad's fraternty paddle once.

I swore in front of his parents.

"Delta Chi" was visible on my ass for an hour.

[progmom]

20. wouldn't it have been ihC atleD

:shrug:
Just asking.

[WMliberal]

22. nah, it was the letters, but unfortunately, my inferior Compaq keyboard

lacks a Delta key.

Come to think of it... if I had seen it, it would've read normal. The mirror would've righted the letters. If only I could see my ass without a mirror... sigh.

[HEyHEY]

19. Spanked with a belt

[bettyellen]

21. I was slapped CRACK right across the face, on my street corner, no less

in front of a quite a few friends... by my Mom, who is the least violent person I ever met.
She was upset I did not come home the night before.

[fortyfeetunder]

23. Had a wet washrag thrown in my mouth

I recall my mother was torturing me about continuing my French studies. It was right after my older brother graduated from high school. Someone at my brother's high school had won an award for taking French from elementary school through senior year.

Recalling I was at one end of the kitchen and she was at another, she was harping at me that if I only continued taking French in high school (at the time I was in 8th grade), and I had finished the sentence, "that I'd win some award". The next thing I knew I was tasting a wet dirty dishrag. My mother bassed at me, "don't you dare interrupt me"

Thus began 10 years of hell that ended when I moved cross country to start my career.

[Nicole]

25. Beaten but not by a parent

it was the babysitter. My mother promptly delivered the same punishment to babysitter when she found out.

[Nicole]

27. grounded by parents

was the worse.

[Skittles]

30. Good for her!

when my uncle saw a man beating a donkey with a whip, he took the whip away and beat the man with it for a few strokes

[Nicole]

49. Good for him!

There is no excuse for beating an animal.

[Ladyhawk]

26. Beaten with belts and tormented in myriad other ways by my father.

I know how it feels, PartyPooper. I was a really good kid, too. My father had no right to treat me like that, even when I did do something wrong.

When my father died, the only emotion I could summon for a long time was great relief. Then I felt guilty for feeling relief.

My whole family is pretty fucked-up and every time I go to counseling, my psychologist comments on how much better I seem since I told them all to shove it. It's a damn shame, but toxicity is impossible to live with. :(

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. I was spanked with a belt until I confessed

to something I didn't do. This happened 3 times...the first was because I had some rags that my mother had given me to make clothes for my dolls. My dad insisted that I'd taken good clothes and torn them. He kept yelling at me to not lie. I think I was about 3.

The second time, he was pissed because someone had broken a large rubber band. He spanked my sister and I every 5 minutes until one of us confessed. Yeah, he could really be an asshole. I despised him for years.

The last time I'd taken an egg to school to show my friends a trick I'd heard about...that applying pressure to both ends of the egg would not crack the shell. I was showing a friend in our carpool, and naturally, the trick didn't work, so there was raw egg spilled all over the back seat of Mrs. A's car, and I was too scared to say anything. Of course, my mother was called, and my parents wouldn't accept my explanation of what happened. I was accused of taking an egg to school to throw it at somebody, and I was spanked until I told them what they wanted to hear.

I don't like to think about these incidents too much...I don't want to forget that I've forgiven my parents.

[tjwmason]

29. Smacked - no ill effects

It was never excessively violent or abuse by any reasonable definition.

That is why I believe in smacking (though I have no children of my own), as long as it is reasonable and within the context of a loving relationship.

[ze_dscherman]

31. Spanking

Not that often, but sometimes pretty bad, and I'm still furious about some. Never did that to my kids.

But worse were ENDLESS moral preachings, some for hours. Not only occasionally, but constantly. No way to stop it but to go away, which I did as early as possible.

[RadicalMom]

32. Belt, back of a hairbrush, wooden spoon spankings, three or four

days of overpowering glaring silent treatment for virtually nothing.

[Dzimbowicz]

35. My mom found a lid in my room and flushed it !

Damn!!! x(

[noonwitch]

37. I got my mouth washed out with soap once, otherwise, I was a good kid

My brother and sister got it, however, especially my sister. My mom used to beat her with a wooden spoon on a daily basis, and my dad hit her with a belt once or twice. My brother claims dad smacked him around, too. When they asked me if dad ever hit me, I just said "Are you kidding? He used to hide Ding Dongs in his closet for me when Mom put me on a diet at 7". I was his princess.

[LibDemAlways]

47. Me, too.

Soap tastes terrible.

[da_chimperor]

38. I got the time-out chair. It was terrible. I asked my mom for a spanking

instead, but she didn't believe in physical punishment. Sitting along in a room for 30 min when you're 9 is a horrible thing.

[underpants]

39. No one else had to "Go put your nose in the corner"?????

God I hated that. I was right there I could hear everything and couldn't say anything.

This was, I believe, a forerunner to "time out" and man did it work.

[Lerkfish]

41. you left off psychological abuse as a choice...

I was spanked frequently, and beaten a few times, but the most damaging was the psychological abuse. I was constantly told how worthless I was, would never amount to anything, no approval was ever bestowed, and I was made to feel lower than whaledung most of the time.

Which would have made sense if I were actually a screwup, but I made straight A's, was class president, and never got into actual trouble. In fact, I was an overachiever, trying to obtain approval I never got.

[Nikia]

50. Me too

Except that sometimes I got compliments that were insults too. "You are so smart and talented, why didn't you do better?" or "You could be such a pretty girl, why do you let yourself be so ugly?" That was my mother.
My stepfather was more like you described including "You don't really have any friends. The better ones you seem to have are actually just being kind to a loser like you. Those trailer park and farm scum aren't really your friends either, they are just trying to use you."
That hurt me then, but strangely as a young adult, those words hurt me more because they stayed with me. I am seeking counseling.

[loudestchick]

51. Same here...my mother was the queen of the backhanded compliment

as well as the backhand, that is until I grew taller than her at age 14. She went to backhand me (wearing rings, as usual) when I grabbed her arm and smacked her first...we went to straight verbal abuse and threats after that.

[Lerkfish]

60. yeah, I hear ya. I remember one time I got a sportsmanship award

and my dad said "oh, so you got an award for losing?".

I won a national scholastic magazine art award, had my drawing on the cover of scholastic magazine, and the only thing my dad said: "don't get a swelled head."

If I got a report card with all A's and one A minus, I'd be punished for the A minus, and never congratulated for the high scores.

the football coach asked me to be the trainer for the football team, and he pointed out only losers are asked to be trainers and refused to let me accept.


stuff like that.

that kind of stuff stays with you a LOT longer than a beating.

[Bertha Venation]

42. besides being beaten, I was made to eat Safeguard soap once

I told a lie and they caught me in it. This was during their "good parents" stage -- they were giving me loving discipline. At least I think that's what they thought they were doing.

The "good parents" stage lasted as long as it took for me to get the taste of soap out of my mouth.

[ScreamingMeemie]

43. Spanking had nothing on getting grounded at my house. A spanking, I could

live with...and I usually deserved them. Getting grounded for days and days? I'd take the spanking anytime. And, oh my goodness, I'm well adjusted even!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

46. All of the above - but the worst

wasn't the spankings, the beltings, the paddlings or even the screaming (although the screaming was very bad):

I got in some trouble at school and my parents had to meet with the teacher.That mortified them, and I was punished more for their embarrassment than for the transgression. For three months I had to come straight home from school. Nobody was allowed to speak to me and I wasn't allowed to say a word until my father got home from work three hours later. During that time I had to write "I will not do (what I did)" fifty times. Every afternoon. Even weekends, when I was grounded except to go to the library. Of course, all that was after the initial beating and screaming.

I was around 9 years old. It was really shitty treatment, and what I did didn't warrant it. There was another kid in the family who got in enough trouble to suffice for all five of us, so when one of the others did something wrong, my parents went into overkill to "nip it in the bud."

[cmf]

48. Did anyone else have to kneel?

I was spanked sometimes, but rarely. Their punishment of choice was making me kneel for a long time (seemed like hours at a time, but who knows?) and to "think about what I had done".

[B0S0X87]

52. Nothing major

I mainly got sent to my room for an hour or so (usually after fighting with my bro), and occaisionally my parents would come up with something more creative like "No electronics for a week."

[AuntiBush]

53. Awww... Sorry to hear that!

:hug:

My grandmother came after me with a rose twig one time. She couldn't catch-up with me but when I realized she could actually get that mad at me, rather then let me have my way all of the time, my behavior changed dramatically, soon after ;)

[blonndee]

54. If you get "spanked" with a belt, is that "beating"?

[elperromagico]

57. "Go get a switch."

:scared:

[Piperay]

58. I was spoiled rotten

really my parents never did any of that stuff to me. :-)I was a good kid but even when I was bad they didn't do anything to me. My parents were so nice that I felt guilty for being naughty and that was enough for me to be better. I guess I was really lucky...I loved them so much (my mother is gone now but my father is still here). :loveya:

[St. Jarvitude]

59. My father was extremely vocally abusive until a few years ago

It went way beyond the normal "father yelling at kid" thing. Way, way, way, beyond.

He started working from home after he had major surgery, and he's improved considerably.