Anyone get the belt as a punishment?

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chaosrulz0310@reddit

Yep hated that damn thing. Big brown leather belt. It was always my mom, dad stopped spanking me when I was like 3.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

3? That's criminal. I was about 10-12.

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Well he went to spank me once and he grab my hand and I just danced around him. He found he couldn’t do it anymore. He found my dancing funny. My mom on the other hand had no issues with that belt till I was in my teens.

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

Dad - Belt

Mom - Wooden Spoon

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irmarbert@reddit

Yes! If we were in public, my mom had these horrible, leather-soled summer sandals.

I know the pain of la chancla!

I remember the last time she went after me with a wooden spoon and it broke on my ass. We both just kinda stopped and looked at each over, then she told me to go to my room.

My dad had this belt, he’d lift me up with a hand in my armpit, so my feet were barely touching the ground and all I could do was run in a circle as he whipped my ass a few times.

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

I had the poor sense to reach back with my hands when Mom was spanking me with the wooden spoon, bye bye nuckles!!!!

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irmarbert@reddit

I was stupid enough to put my hand back there the other way, so my open palm would get whipped. He’s warm me to move my hand or he’d whip it. So many times nod get sent to my room with a stinging hand.

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seathian@reddit

Yup, same here. Sometimes it was a plastic soon, til she missed and hit me in back and it broke. But dad always belt and started around age 5

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Necessary-Film7832@reddit

My dad hit me with a belt one time when I ran from him. He didn't usually discipline me. My mother would use a switch from a willow tree. That was really effective. But I was a really good girl and hardly ever had to be switched. My Brothers on the other hand would get the belt. My oldest brother and my dad used to get in fist fights because my brother was so obstinate and stubborn. No one was beaten or abused though. I smacked my son once when he was little and that was it. It just about killed us both. He was a really good kid though and grew up being really good man and the really good father and husband so I must have done something right!

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EyelanderSam@reddit

Man, my grandfather whipped me once, with the telephone cord back in the '70s for not folding my blanket in the morning.

That crap stung like nothing I've ever felt since then.

Needless to say, I never forgot to fold my blanket PROMPTLY every morning.

Guess it worked. I still am prompt with folding my blanket 😭🥹⏰

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

It's effective but shitty.

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Bartlaus@reddit

Never. That shit was already illegal here by then.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Not here unfortunately might be now.

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Bartlaus@reddit

Yeah. Hitting your kids is assault and should be treated as such. Been illegal here (Norway) since the early 70s, obviously it's still a thing that HAPPENS in some families but it's not supposed to happen and it can easily become a matter for CPS and/or police.

(Teachers using corporeal punishment against students was made illegal in the 1930s, well before my parents were even born.)

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Agreed. Hello from across the pond friend.

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Grand_Taste_8737@reddit

Once or twice. It worked.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Lol definitely effective but a bit like r stockholm symptom

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AnalFanatics@reddit

A large wooden spoon or large hairbrush from Mum, a belt or a cut and doubled over length of electrical cable from my Nan, the cane or the 1meter wooden blackboard ruler at school, and a closed fist to the side of my head from my Dad; the 70’s were good, but they weren’t necessarily the best of times in all facets…

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Relatable just how some of us were disciplined. I would never do it to a child.

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AnalFanatics@reddit

Yeah, when I was still a child, I swore that I would never do anything like that to my children when I had them, and I never did; I was obviously damaged goods (and still am), and perhaps I was not as emotionally affective with my children as they are with theirs, but I intentionally married a woman who came from an extremely loving and emotionally connected family, and I am proud to say that between us, we broke the cycle of abuse that was longstanding in my family.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

We're the same person. My ex wife was white picket fence.

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AnalFanatics@reddit

I can still remember the first time I met my future wife’s family some 38 years ago, I was talking to her father at a sporting club, when these two big blokes who had just finished a game of Australian Rules Football, came over and gave him a big hug each, I physically recoiled in shock, as I had never actually seen men be affectionate to each other like that before; those men taught me a new paradigm of what being a man could look like without compromising your masculinity, and I will be forever grateful to them for doing so.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Truth being a man means being human. My male friends and I always greet with bear hugs.

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CharmingChart635@reddit

My mother liked belts and the rubber stripping from the dryer door. Think that heavy rubber from 70-80s dryers.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Damn

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xtiaaneubaten@reddit

We got it at school if we were particularly bad.

I got threatened with a wooden spoon at home, but never actually hit.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Oh damn at school it was a ruler to the kuckles..

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Breklin76@reddit

Yup.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Fist bump.

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Much_Usual_3855@reddit

My mother never hit me, but she did hit my brother. She used to tell me afterwards how much he deserved it. She definitely wasn't trying to teach a lesson, she is/was just a mean drunk and drug addict.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Sorry man, yeah my father was an alcoholic. His father would punch him in the face so he probably thought he was going easy on me.

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Much_Usual_3855@reddit

Sorry about your father. Our generations parents may have been less abusive than their parents but they were still abusive.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)

Thank you kind soul, still loved him to pieces. Was devastated for two months after he passed. Destroyed my 13 year marriage to my wife. She was 10 years younger had no concept of the pain of loos.

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

Dad would belt me when he was sober... fists when not

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anotherNotMeAccount@reddit

Did you have kids and use the belt in them?

My pops used the belt on me only a few times, but he was hyper aware because his father was actually abusive (like he was hung upside down in a closet and beat with a hanger wire. Arm broken with baseball bat levels. REAL abuse, not just discipline)

I've never used it on my kids. Spankings a few times in dangerous situations only. The idea being: a sore bottom is better than a burn they would have gotten from touching the oven, but the pain lesson is still there.

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