Birthday whipping | TheaterFire

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Illuminated_Lava316@reddit

Birthday spanks were common in my school… In all grades, K-8… for both boys and girls… done by the teacher… In front of the class… in a Catholic school… My 3rd grade teacher was a nun.

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Wapiti_whacker82@reddit

(MT for location reference) I was just wondering the same thing at a kid's birthday over the weekend. I haven't seen a birthday spanking for a long time.

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threefeetofun@reddit

It was wide spread enough that an episode of Buffy mentions it. I remember it. I think just any hitting of someone’s ass outside the bedroom is frowned upon now.

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BatFancy321go@reddit

was that anya? cos she meant orgasm friend spanking

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Few_Improvement_6357@reddit

Yes, that is exactly the most appalling thing you could have said.

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BatFancy321go@reddit

what? tact is just not saying things that are true

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threefeetofun@reddit

It was Xander in “Surprise” Xander: Buffy, I feel a pre-birthday spanking coming on. Jenny: I’d curb that impulse if I were you, Xander.

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81FuriousGeorge@reddit

We had "birthday bumps". You were punched you age.

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andthrewaway1@reddit

My camp did it with a paddle but like rarely anyone got it hard and even then it wasn't so hard if one person. but never from parents....

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illini02@reddit

I'm in Chicago. We definitely got "birthday licks" as they were called.

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PlaneLocksmith6714@reddit

We had teachers who would do this to us and the parents just let it happen. I was in a different school entirely before I learned that was not okay!

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OllieFromCairo@reddit

My first time even hearing of this is now.

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Dude! Memory unlocked: a teacher (yes, a teacher!) in elementary school would call us up on our birthday, take us over their knee, and pretend spank us our age when it was our birthday. WTF?! How was that allowed to happen?!

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UnwillingHummingbird@reddit

Same here. I was so happy my birthday was over the summer so I didn't have to deal with that.

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thelaststarebender@reddit

Same!

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thoughtfractals85@reddit

This happened in my elementary school too! It's absolutely crazy to think about now! I hadn't thought about that in decades.

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UnwillingHummingbird@reddit

There was a teacher at my elementary school who did that! I haven't thought about it in years. No way you'd get away with that now.

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Flow-tentate@reddit

Definitely a thing in East TN

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East_Kaleidoscope995@reddit

The general idea is still out there. But kids now will do birthday punches (usually on the arm). I’m a high school teacher and a lot of the boys will avoid mentioning when it’s their birthday to avoid it because of course some jackasses take it too far.

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Beenooner@reddit

Yes, in elementary school we’d line up and the birthday person would run through the line and we’d all try to smack their butt. Very odd to think about now. This was in SW Michigan in the early 90s.

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AndreaKristin8@reddit

It happened to me and my classmates in first grade. The class would stand with their legs open and the birthday boy/girl had to crawl under them getting spanked.

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scarred_but_whole@reddit

It was called the "spanking machine" where I grew up. Always hated it.

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Quixote511@reddit

You didn’t go to MPB did you? We did that with Mr Mathes in Gym

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AndreaKristin8@reddit

No, I went to DeForest Elementary in Wisconsin. It’s funny and all around weird that it was happening in multiple places.

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WheelOfFish@reddit

I'd be curious to see the responses mapped out. I've never heard of this.

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chaz_patrick@reddit

Grew up in Indiana. I can clearly remember the birthday spanking. Happened at home and at school. It was always in fun and never a hurtful way. And if your birthday fell on a school day you always brought cupcakes or cake cones (cupcakes made inside of ice cream cones)for the class. Then you got to go to the principal’s office and they made it seem like you were in Trouble but he was super cool and would wish you happy birthday and give you some kind of generic “certificate “.

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AlisonSandraGator@reddit

I think about this all the time but at Showbiz Pizza the bear would spank the birthday kid and they made a big show of it. I never wanted my birthday there for that very reason, I would die of embarrassment if that happened to me, yet the birthday kids always seemed excited about it.

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spirit_of_a_goat@reddit

Not in class, but at home.

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malibuklw@reddit

I remember hearing about birthday spankings but my entire family (except for one uncle) were very anti-spanking.

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Opening-Bank@reddit

And a pinch to grow an inch

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kalamity_katie@reddit

And a punch to grow a bunch.

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ShadowAnimus81@reddit

And a smile to grow a mile.

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Writeforwhiskey@reddit

I never liked it but it stopped when my cousin tried it. My mom would do maybe 2 swats but my cousin's family did like a beat down. He came at me and all I had near was a bottle of bleach, I threw it at his face, kneed or kick his balls and ran. And I didn't get in trouble. It ended up a being a good day.

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Sunshineal@reddit

When I got older and around my friends as a teenager we did birthday spankings.

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getdownmakelooove@reddit

I got birthday spankings, but they were always lighthearted and done in jest. I was always laughing by the end of it.

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Appropriate-Divide64@reddit

We used to have the birthday bumps. You'd grab the birthday person by the arms and legs and launch them into the air for the number of years old they have. Usually you would let go at the end and the birthday boy would have to spin around like a cat or crash into the floor. At kickboxing we did birthday beats. Where everyone gloves up and stands in two lines. The birthday person has to run between the lines while everyone beats them as they pass. It got stopped after someone got punched in the balls.

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Britney4eva@reddit

My family would joke about birthday spankings , like “oh you ready for your birthday spanking? It’s 9 this year harharharhardyharr”

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RosaAmarillaTX@reddit

Same, I thought it was just one of those family "jokes"/intimidation tactics.

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LordLaz1985@reddit

Happened to me as a kid.

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Rhianna83@reddit

I grew up in the SF East Bay and it was a thing at my house and my friends’ homes.

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Zerostar39@reddit

I have never heard of this. Kinda sounds horrible to do that to someone on their birthday

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blueyedwineaux@reddit

Heard of it, never knew anyone that it happened to.

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Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit

Slaps, punches, spanking. Also don't forget about the extra for one to grow on. Must have worked because I reached my full height of 6'2" at 14.

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NickLoner@reddit

I remember people joking about it, like "Are you ready for your birthday spankings?!" but nobody ever actually did it. Maybe it wasn't acceptable anymore by the time I got to that age, idk.

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iwantmy-2dollars@reddit

Definitely a thing. It was a joke in our house but used the paint stirring stick from on top of the fridge as a prop. The paint stirring stick was used for actual punishment. Uneasy joke?

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katiespecies647@reddit

My parents called them "birthday bumps."

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Bay-Area-Tanners@reddit

Birthday spankings were always mentioned but rarely followed through, although you might get a couple of light slaps. This may be more regional, but we also had the tradition of buttering the birthday kid’s nose. My daughter got me twice this year.

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Oldpuzzlehead@reddit

I remember my friends parents doing this and all of their family was cheering it on. My family didn't do it so it was weird to see it.

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BatFancy321go@reddit

widespread. it's in the little house books. my 2nd grade teacher (the oldest teacher i had in my life, horrid old battle ax) subjected us to a choice of birthday spanks, tickles, or i think birthday kisses?? hugs?? something that'd get you arrested today. i didn't want her to touch me i think i picked tickles bc it seemed like ethe least amount of touching. i was wrong.

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Ejigantor@reddit

Nope; it was just something I saw on TV. I vaguely recall someone trying aggressively to pinch me for not wearing green on St Patrick's day - a tradition with which I was unfamiliar - and I did not respond well.

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