Birthday Spankings | TheaterFire

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CheesyRomantic@reddit

Ohhh I was just thinking of something similar. Kids used to give "the bumps"!on your bday. They’d grab your arms from behind and knee you in the butt the amount of your age plus one for good luck.

Or later on (as teens) throw eggs at you (sometimes flour too).

That was the school kids.

At home we’d pull your ears.

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Automatic-Raspberry3@reddit

My boomer mother in law was always “joking” about birthday spankings with my kids when they were small to the point I told her to cut the shit

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elphaba00@reddit

My Boomer MIL got upset because I said she had to quit birthday spankings. When the birthday boy is taller and weighs more than you, it’s time to give up the “tradition,” which I never liked anyway.

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My kindergarten teacher gave birthday spankings (‘84). She would sit on the piano bench, take the birthday kid over her knee, and spank the shit out of them. She was a wretched old woman and I believe she thoroughly enjoyed it.

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chawrawbeef@reddit

I distinctly remember running away from my second grade teacher before she could spank me. Like, as if it was a funny thing. But she would have the birthday kid ‘assume the position’ across her lap and give them a spank for each year

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sneerfuldawn@reddit

Fuck, I completely blocked those memories. My dad's household did it and it's weird and he was cruel. I understand that it was supposed to be done playfully, but when you have a shit parent that likes to hurt you they get a bit too into it and now have the permission to do it in front of an audience. Not one person ever told him to be gentle or stop.

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sunchasinggirl@reddit

That’s terrible! I’m so sorry 🥺

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LastMonitor4274@reddit (OP)

Yikes! Sorry to hear that. I doubt you were alone on that. My parents grew up in similar situations and definitely broke away of the “normal” Boomer crap. I got lucky.

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Beliliou74@reddit

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PersianCatLover419@reddit

Yes we had birthday spankings and for the guys birthday punches on the arms.

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japanadian42@reddit

My Canadian grandmother would perform the “Royal Bumps” which involved two people (grandparents) holding the birthday victim by their arms and legs and gently bouncing their bottom against the floor as many times as they were years old. I had forgotten about it until reading this post..

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Yestie@reddit

Came here looking for this! We did this to each other at school. Thankfully I have no traumatic memories from it. I think it was more a fun rite of passage thing. Haven't thought about this for decades. Great post!

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Spartan04@reddit

We never had them at school but I think they may have had them at the daycare I went to. Though I remember somewhere, probably that daycare, having a birthday spanking "paddle" that was essentially a stuffed pad/pillow on the end of a short stick. So the spankings were very light.

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Notredamus1@reddit

I grew up in the ghetto in SoCal. I remember in middle school, kids would get jumped on their birthday if people found out it was your birthday. I was lucky my birthday was over the summer.

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Bobo_Baggins_jatj@reddit

My step-dad did that when I was a kid. They were BS spankings but I hated it because I got real ones for every little thing the rest of the year. Grew into actual fights when I got to my teen years.

Never did birthday spankings on my own kids. I think one of my daughters only got one real one from the wife. Hitting your kids anywhere is dumb af.

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poofandmook@reddit

I forgot all about this. Maybe I blocked it out.

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3kidsnomoney---@reddit

We never had this in an organized fashion in school, but your friends might decide you needed to get some 'birthday beats.'

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DiaDeLosMuebles@reddit

In middle school we had birthday licks. Where each of your friends get one good punch to your arm. We’d end up with huge bruises on our birthday.

Stupid but boys will be boys.

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Humphalumpy@reddit

This was a children's party game like pin the tail on the donkey.

All the kids lined up with legs wide to make a tunnel. Birthday kid crawled through as fast as possible and everyone took a swat as they went by. The aim is to get as free spanks as possible I guess. I was maybe 5 or 6yo last time I remember it.

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coffeegogglesftw@reddit

Yes, this! We called this a spanking machine.

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jambr380@reddit

We have an old family video where my 42 year uncle is spanking my sister on her 12th birthday. It seemed totally normal at the time, but let’s just say it didn’t age very well

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Remarkable-Power-386@reddit

Yes, my uncle birthday spanked me on my 16th birthday… 😒 I remember crying bc it had never happened before and it was a real big wtf moment… thinking about it now still gives me the ick…

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DeftTrack81@reddit

Yeah but it wasn't a real spanking. More playful swats. Except for the "one to grow on" that one kind of hurt.

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analogswampwitch@reddit

Yeah, my mom did it in a cute pat on the butt way, but the last one was the "hurt" one. I actually used to ask her to do my bday spankings! I think I just liked the attention. Haha. Yall unlocked a memory for me!

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LastMonitor4274@reddit (OP)

Yes. I should clarify it’s all mimed swats, not real.

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carlitospig@reddit

Wow I can’t believe I forgot all about this. Yes, this was still a thing when we were kids. In fact I remember being in junior high and it being totally normal to get spanked as you walked down the hall on your birthday.

So glad this is dead.

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LastMonitor4274@reddit (OP)

Us, too!

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carlitospig@reddit

Yah we weee told they were ‘good luck’ whatever the fuck that was supposed to mean. 😏

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supguy99@reddit

Kids would yell "birthday beats!" when you got to school and you'd get your ass kicked.

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5pens@reddit

We had them, but my dad would act like he's going to spank us really hard, but had his other hand in the way, so it was like he just clapped his hands together loudly. I just did the same style with my son for his bday last month.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

I never heard of bday spankings (well, not til I dated that one girl but that's a different story) but when I was a kid there was always stuff at bday parties like punch in the arm or hit you on the head with a balloon for every year (plus one to grow on).

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nojaneonlyzuul@reddit

Yep. We for sure did birthday punches on the arm for each year (plus one to grow on) too. But no spanking. I've never even heard of that.

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LastMonitor4274@reddit (OP)

I do remember that! It seemed more of a boy thing.

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NW_Forester@reddit

It was always a joke where I grew up. At young ages it was parents talking about it at birthday parties, as we got older we made the same jokes at school. Only spankings I remember actually happened was in college when the dorm manwhore decided he had been naughty and asked for spankings and he made sounds of pleasure with each spanking and called everyone daddy as it was happening.

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heresmytwopence@reddit

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

We had birthday spankings when I was a kid. I think at least a couple of my elementary school classes did this for the birthday boy/girl, but definitely not all of them. I don't think I've thought about birthday spankings since elementary school. We didn't do it with our kid, that's for sure.

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bokatan778@reddit

We definitely had these in elementary school.

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bcentsale@reddit

I pay a professional to administer mine.