What's the weirdest punishment you got as a kid?

Our TD teacher scared everyone, and he gave out punishments like this. I was a goody two shoes, but I remember other people having to write essays on "life inside a tennis ball" or "why I want to be a butterfly".

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CyndersParadigm@reddit

Did you just write ' "Ow!"' 500 times?

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Gent415@reddit

My Chemistry teacher 😆

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Trick-Station8742@reddit

Mine was an essay on the inside of a rice crispie

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Luke_Nukem_2D@reddit

I remember once having to do a five minute presentation on 'The sex life of a Smartie'. I can't even remember why. 😂

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No-Extension-2378@reddit

Similar punishment to OP, I came home drunk at about 16 and my stepdad punished me by taking me out the following day to the pub and buying me pints with vodka chasers. My mum questioned the punishment and he said I'd be so hungover I never drank again.

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pickindim_kmet@reddit

I got made to trampoline. During PE I didn't take part for some reason, I don't know whether I was uncomfortable or not feeling well but the teacher didn't like it and made me stay back after school to trampoline for him.

He did let me bring a friend which I think was probably a bit of a chaperone looking back as he's since been convicted of things...

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Murfiano@reddit

I hit a kid it school for calling my mum a bitch. I got suspended for 3 days and my dad said he was proud for sticking up for my mum but had to punish me so I pealed potatoes for dinner that evening

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pdp76@reddit

Getting your dinner again later in the day warmed up and you still don’t like it. Then sent to bed for not eating what you don’t like anyway. Different times !

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Fickle-Fox-9071@reddit

We had to sit at the table with the cold food in front of us for hours if we either didn't eat or didn't finish our dinner. Eventually you just got bored enough to eat it and it didn't kinda work. Although there are 4 boys and none of us eat anything our parents fed us when we were younger.

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lovesorangesoda636@reddit

My mum used to do that to me. I really hate peas, always have. One night I just point blank refused and we stayed up till past midnight. I did not eat the peas.

After that she finally relented and agreed that I could just pick any veg I wanted to have instead of peas.

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pdp76@reddit

Yeah it’s pointless. I have a 3 year old grandson. If you put him down stuff like chicken nuggets and chips he just doesn’t want it. Stuff you would wallop down in your own childhood. He prefers spaghetti bol, lasagne, chilli, curries. Give him that and its plate empty ! Then on the lookout for cakes ! Again, different times.

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boycey0211@reddit

Core memory unlocked of being forced to sit in the kitchen crying all Sunday night with a Brussel sprout in my mouth I chewed, thanks for that :(

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pdp76@reddit

I’d still be sat on the floor now though mate to be fair if that was my choice !

My grandma was a kind old woman. Good god that lady changed if you didn’t eat what she made. They came from rationing and war times though, so it’s understandable. Still hated it as a kid when she got strict with food i definitely wasn’t eating !

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greens1117@reddit

Then having it warmed up for breakfast

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DB-DanCooper@reddit

That's a good punishment. Make the day at school as unproductive as possible.

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Financial-Base-8070@reddit (OP)

Luckily, it was a Friday.

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TeriyakiNoodleBox@reddit

In that case it sounds like a Dad making a core memory with his son rather than a punishment.

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automatic_shark@reddit

It was only Tom Zenk matches. No Bret, no Shawn, only the Z-Man

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ManIsready@reddit

Not so much weirdest..but funniest/turning point In life was at 16 In year 11 at School, I got suspended for smoking weed. Went straight to my mates house to have a smoke, get a call from my Mum as of course year head or someone from school has called her, she half hearted just said "Err go home and go to bed" I just laughed and said no, last time I was ever sent anywhere by her as an order In fear lol

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robdelterror@reddit

My mum didn't wake me up christmas day, told my brother to get up and not wake me up. She left a present next to my pillow. It was wrapped up crunchie chocolate bar. When I got up, I got screamed at and kicked out for "ruining christmas".

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

Well, this is really weird, the teacher should have been arrested.

When I was about 6, a girl in my class did the classic “de-bagging”, her friend distracted me and she creeped up behind me and pulled down my trousers. Everything was in show. Classic childhood prank.

I wanted revenge, so me and a friend lifted up her skirt in the school field. 1-1 and a worthy tie. Or so I thought. This was at lunch break.

It got back to my teacher. After lunch we did that weird thing that all kids did and sat on the carpet looking up at the teacher sat in a chair.

She called me up, what did she do? Pulled my fucking trousers and pants down in front of the whole class. Weird lady just have been 40 odd and she thought it acceptable to do this.

The early 90s were a very different time.

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OutlawHavok@reddit

Kids doing it is weird but you're a kid. An adult doing it has no excuse. Would be a sexual assault charge these days.

Pretty much every teacher I had in primary school was a woman. Most of them good but a few had it out for the boys in general. It was weird.

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First-Lengthiness-16@reddit

Yeah, I’m not proud of what I did, but i lose no sleep because I was a kid. My daughter is 5 and a boy she knows got his willy out in front of her recently. We were at his house and my daughter was using his toilet. He really needed to go so he prepared himself. He went into the toilet with her and was patiently waiting with his willy out.

No worries from me (and I told his parents not to worry) because he was 4.

Some stuff is acceptable from a child, and an absolutely not acceptable for an adult.

I think about this incident from time to time (a couple of times a year, sometimes when on Reddit) and think “what possessed you to think that was an acceptable course of action”. I’m not in any way angry, just think it’s weird

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ac0rn5@reddit

Having to sit in absolute silence, and with my finger on my lips, so my Mum could listen to something on the radio. I think I was about 7 or 8 at the time.

Having to sit at the table with a pudding I didn't like, until I ate it all.

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spacegirl2820@reddit

Got caught smoking with my older cousin, so we were made to smoke a bunch until we felt sick.

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DIPPYD0R1S@reddit

Pick all the flowers out the lawn, daisies, dandelions etc.

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IFightSpinosaurs@reddit

Forgot my PE kit for school and was made to participate the entire hour in just my pants and vest. I was 6

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iamDEVANS@reddit

I did the lo down on my brother when our beds were next to each others when we were younger.

Put him through the bed completely broke😂

We couldn’t watch wrestling for a while, and I had to sleep in the massive dip of the bed 😂

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Davski88@reddit

Many a bed were lost to me and my brothers doing wrestling moves to each other. Best one was when my brother powerbombed me and completely destroyed my parents double bed. Safe to say they were not impressed at all.

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iamDEVANS@reddit

This is the way.

😂

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cheesytola@reddit

Went out with friends aged (F)14 to local park. Someone had stolen a half bottle of whisky from their parents drinks cabinet. Met up with some lads and I proceeded to neck the whole lot of neat whisky trying to “impress” them then couldn’t stand up. Someone had to call a parent to pour me into their car and drive me home. My Mum received me at the front door and gave me gallons of water. Then she made an extremely ill and hungover me get up and go to school the next day so my Dad wouldn’t find out. Never did anything like that ever again and still to this day cannot stand the smell of whisky.

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Mu99az@reddit

Maths teacher made me write out something like 279 to the power of 20, show all working.

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WilliamP90@reddit

The punishment for saying even mildly rude words was having our mouths "washed out" with soap by our Mum. I can still taste and feel it like 25 years later if I try. Not fun, wouldn't recommend, and don't think I swear any more or less than my peers as a result of it

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Financial-Base-8070@reddit (OP)

My parents used that as a threat but never did it.

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Fickle-Fox-9071@reddit

The weirdest one I guess in terms of how it played out was if you left a toy out it went in the bin, but he didn't say ever so there wasn't really a lesson. Kinda mad really because I was one of 4 boys, we all left stuff out, and it would just go in the bin wasting so much money.

My dad had some really weird methods of parenting because his dad was born in the 1890s so my dad growing up in the late 50s and 60s basically had a victorian childhood and then my dad did the same to us growing up in the 90s.

There were obviously lots of other weird things, but as a consistent "punishment" it was that.

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Decard_Pain@reddit

He was teaching you why you need to go to sleep.

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Financial-Base-8070@reddit (OP)

Definitely

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Hitonatsu-no-Keiken@reddit

Surely it was a bigger punishment for himself? He'd have to stay awake to make sure you stayed awake AND he'd have to watch WWF!

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Financial-Base-8070@reddit (OP)

He's not he biggest fan of WWF but doesn't mind it. He made me sit on the foot stall in front of him so I couldn't drift off to sleep and would ask every half an hour the names of the wrestlers to check I was still paying attention. Also he had a few days off work so could sleep afterwards.

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Kizaky@reddit

While I was in 2nd year (12-13 age) my Spannish teacher had enough of me being the class clown and sat a desk outside her class for me for basically the entire year with a textbook and paper.

This 'punishment' was basically just a free hour to either fuck off to the shops or go find a mates class, chap the door and ask "Mr/Mrs X, is Kizaky's mate in this class, year head wants to see them" then go fuck around until that clsss was almost over.

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CAElite@reddit

Most of my punishments involved unpaid labour, generally helping my uncle out who ran a small construction business (who we stayed with for a few years well I was a kid).

Weirdest one, when I was about 11/12 my uncle let me loose in a mini excavator, uncle ended up joking that I did a better job than the guys he was paying good money for. Well, that summer my cousin and I decided to break the bathroom door (we where chasing eachother through the house, I locked myself in the bathroom & jumped out the window, he shouldered the door & burst the lock). Uncle said we where coming to work on a project he was doing for 2 weeks during our summer holidays.

I ended up driving an excavator the whole time, cousin got hard labour with a hand shovel. Uncle ended up paying us at the end as we'd more than paid off him fixing the door... £50 each and a copy of GTA San Andreas for the PS2. Took me a decade to realise how much he made off of us :D.

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Leeeeeroy-Jenkins@reddit

Any time we were given lines to do in school, it’s a rubbish punishment that teaches absolutely nothing. The exertion aspect of it, is also effortlessly bypassed by writing one word of the “line” total n of times in sequence instead of multiple sentences - most kids realise this quickly.

I don’t know if they still do it in schools, but it was always ridiculous.

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GlitchingGecko@reddit

We used to have to copy from the dictionary. Ended up learning a lot of interesting words, and then got accused of having other people complete my homework when I used a weird one.

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CyndersParadigm@reddit

Was your headteacher Mrs Trunchbull?

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GlitchingGecko@reddit

Nah, my headmaster at that point was a solid guy. He was a Geordie and I supported Newcastle United (which wasn't common in the Midlands), so he actually liked me! 😆

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GeordieJumper@reddit

I still remember being given lines in year 3 because I told the teacher she was wrong. I had to write out "Mercury is the hottest planet" all break. I told her that Venus was the hottest but she didn't believe me because Mercury was closest to the sun sun. I'm still not over it

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Nuthetes@reddit

Somebody at my school got neverending lines. I was never sure what he did. But every PE lesson he just had to write neverending lines. Until the end of the school year.

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Financial-Base-8070@reddit (OP)

Someone at my school had 300 lines once. that was the most.

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GlitchingGecko@reddit

Probably had the audacity to have a doctors note excusing him from PE.

I had one for a couple of years, and I had to go with a girl in a wheelchair to the remedial class and partake in their lesson. 14 years old doing spelling tests and math for 8 year olds. If we didn't participate, detention.

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Financial-Base-8070@reddit (OP)

They did it in my school in the 90s. I only had to do it once, for forgetting to bring a pen to class.

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Spanner1993@reddit

I think we're totally different generations but...

When I was at school youd get a 'punishment exercise' which was writing out the schools code of conduct. Next step up was a 'conduct card' which was a mark on your permanent school record and needed to be signed by a parent as their acknowledgement youd been a wee prick at school but required no writing or loss of personal time...

The more savvy troublemakers would get into trouble, receive the stage 1 'punny' but then double down to upgrade the 'punny' to a 'condy' and avoid the hour of writing!

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jolittletime@reddit

I rarely got punished at school but I once (very unfairly!) Hard to write out a list of school rules. Just out of my head, not copied from anywhere.

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3_box@reddit

Testing felt pens as detention at 14.... I found it strangely enjoyable just sitting there scribbling with felt pens going yep or no & throwing the duds into the bin.

Don't think the teacher was impressed though, huge box was supposed to take 30-60 minutes & I was done in 15 😂

What they didn't know was this was a regular task at home cos as younger kids we hardly ever put the lids back on fully so had to do a check every 3-6 months or mum wouldn't replace them 🤣🤣

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ShiningCrawf@reddit

Not sure if this counts, but back in the days of four-channel terrestrial television:

I was watching TV one evening when my mum rushed into the room going "come on, we've got to go" (not sure where or why, but I remember it was nothing to do with me). I argued that I just wanted to finish the episode I was watching, to which she said "no, you can watch it when we get back".

Confused, I tried to explain the concept of scheduled television, but she wasn't having it and insisted that I could somehow pick it up where I left off in an hour's time (for those born this century, it absolutely did not work that way).

This went back and forth until frustration at not being listened to got the better of me and I raised my voice. The punishment for my outburst was...no longer being permitted to finish what I was watching when we got back from wherever she needed to go. Which I wouldn't have been able to do anyway, because of how time works.

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Alternative_Bit_7306@reddit

The belt

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Unique-Contract760@reddit

I said knickers in class and had to write it out 500 times in the reception area at school.

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LilacScentedStoat@reddit

Made to stand by a wall with my nose tip holding a piece of paper against the wall and a thesaurus balanced on my head.

If the paper or book fell, I'd have to start over.

I was maybe 9 and I'd called a girl fat because she stole my lunch pudding..

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Weak-Property4908@reddit

Not sure if its weird, but i got a bar of soap in the mouth because a kid lied and said I swore at him.

My parents still hate themselves for not believing me, they're absolutely horrified that I still remember.

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Financial-Base-8070@reddit (OP)

Not something you're likely to forget really.

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greens1117@reddit

I got the cane from the head teacher!

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Sad_Cardiologist5388@reddit

Did doing that teach you anything OP?

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Financial-Base-8070@reddit (OP)

Not really, but I did stop watching wrestling videos so late at night.

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jelinski619@reddit

For a while my mum ran an "eat it or wear it" policy. Dad would come home to find baked beans and coco pops in my hair.

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Miserable-Bobcat4455@reddit

Standing outside in the back garden in the snow without shoes or socks on was weird

Losing the door on your bedroom (my sister punishment not mine)

Being Ignored for two weeks at a time something I enjoyed

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bladefiddler@reddit

My single mam once lost her blob at me and my brother and locked us outside the house while she drove away, to 'teach us a lesson' (she was barely gone 20mins before guilt brought her back).

She was extra deflated to return and find us sat infront of the TV. Hadn't considered that as latch-key kids I had mine in my pocket.

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undercovergloss@reddit

My parents would punish me by banning me from reading… you heard that right. As a kid, my idea of fun was reading. So they’d strip my room from my books (and everything else) and force me to have nothing. Wild times

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Justboy__@reddit

When my sister and I used to argue, my dad would bang our heads together.

We don’t see him anymore for some reason.

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Flowerofthesouth88@reddit

I went to my sister's bedroom once to watch Eurotrash, that she caught me and banned me from entering and watching TV in her room again. 🤣

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Justboy__@reddit

That’s not a weird punishment though, what else would you expect her to do?

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Majin-Chris@reddit

Not the weirdest punishment cause I totally deserved it. Convinced my parents to sign up to a subscription channel called Television X (a UK channel) and told them it was a channel that showed anime like Akira and Ninja Scroll. Then they found out, they signed up to a porn channel for a whole year 😂. I got grounded for a solid 2 months but I also made a lot of money recording that and selling it at school. Me and my brother still laugh like crazy about this and it's been 30 years .

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GarethGazzGravey@reddit

Not so much an actual punishment, but my mum would threaten me with sending me to an orphanage whenever i misbehaved.

That was around 40 years ago and, even though my childhood memories are sketchy at best, I still remember her saying it

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Addendum_General@reddit

Had my desk and chair taken away for an hour for falling asleep in class

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Justboy__@reddit

Rubbish punushment if he didn’t even hit a stunner on you before you went to bed.

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coffeexcoffeex91@reddit

Came home to the cutlery drawer having been emptied on my bed (and then having the duvet put back to cover it).

My crime? My brother had left his cereal bowl on the sink... after i'd done the washing up and left for school...

🙄

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Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit

Suspension from school always seemed like the golden ticket.

I never quite made the cut, best I got was terms of detentions.

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Individual_Bat_378@reddit

I wasn't allowed a bed until I could keep my room tidy for a month. I slept on a mattress on the floor for well over a year when I was about 12. Yes I am now diagnosed with ADHD...

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Sustainable_Twat@reddit

PE Teacher insisted I do 10 pushups to avoid penalties for something and for each push up, in front of the whole class, he gave a running commentary on me doing it with the highlight being,

“He looks like he’s shagging the floor”

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No-Round-8241@reddit

Forced to watch younger brothers and sisters eat cake after a birthday party because we was 'laughing' as kids.

Madness.

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Petrichor_ness@reddit

This is one of my all time favourites my sister got:

She's 14, just been picked up from the police station again (for shoplifting this time). We're dirt poor but parents have remortgaged the house and cut back on everything to keep her in her private school.

Mum: I mean I just don't understand, is it we're not giving you enough attention? What do we need to do to help you?

sister: (Crocodile tears) You don't understand how hard it is for me, all my friends can have anything they want and live in such big houses with parents that drive fancy cars and I'm just stuck here

Mum: Would horse riding lessons help?

Yep, my mothers approach to my sister getting arrested by the police and having to spend time in a cell at the age of 14 was offering her horse riding lessons.

For context, we lived of tesco value food (I'd often eat paper in my room because I was so hungry), my mum once had a meltdown at a petrol station because she went 5p over at the petrol pump and didn't have the extra 5p. We couldn't afford a picture of a horse let alone riding lessons!

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Ravenclaw_Starshower@reddit

At 17 I got my car keys (to my mum’s car) taken away for giving a friend a ride home late at night. The next day my parents had to pick me up at midnight when my shift at my after school job finished. That lasted all of one day until they gave me the car keys back 😂

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JennyW93@reddit

I used to get sent to bed without dinner. This happened fairly regularly, and I’ve only recently realised that it’s insane to do that to a child anyway, but it was more insane when you consider I swam competitively so would have to skip dinner, then be up at 5am to train for an hour before school.

Not really surprising I ended up with… poor eating habits… when I moved out.

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thehoneybadger1223@reddit

When my brother and I argued we had to sit at opposite ends of the couch and look at each other

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tiorzol@reddit

This is smoke this whole pack of cigarettes energy.

We had a child minder who would make you eat mustard if you swore. I didn't know wanker was swear word and Chris dobbed me in. I got the mustard treatment and didn't really mind it but it was pretty traumatic. Fuck you Kim and Chris.

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lightzaiba@reddit

Me and my brother were fighting (again) we must have been about 7 and 8. Instead of telling us off my dad made us sit on the floor facing each other and told us we had to look at each in the eye - but we weren’t allowed to laugh.

Obviously that was impossible. It ended the whole situation in laughter. It’s one of my most vivid memories.

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MinuteAppearance5934@reddit

Common punishment at the time but being sent to bed with no food only taught me that food can be used as a means to control. I refused to eat for days after that to punishment my parents. Life long eating disorder now.

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markypatt52@reddit

6 stroked with the cane in secondary school and my dad beat up the headmaster

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qbnaith@reddit

I kept stealing bowlfuls of raspberries and eventually my parents stopped trying to stop me. I ate bowlful after bowlful, and then was very very sick.

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TraderNono@reddit

In my home country temperatures easily get to high 20s and mid 30s with clear sky for months.

During summer in my school, I didn't do my homework which was to to basically write pages and pages of boring essay. The teacher found out and made me do the homework our on the floor under the glaring sun for the whole of that teacher's class and one class is 45 mins, so I probably stayed good 40 mins in the sun trying to finish that essay. Whe I was finally allowed back in, my vision got dark for a while and I started seeing bright spots. It was fine after a while but I hated that.

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TapWaterDev@reddit

WWF wrestling... is that fighting Pandas?

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Chevalitron@reddit

How young are you?

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TapWaterDev@reddit

Nearly 30..?

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Pulsefire-Comet@reddit

It was called WWF when you were early teens

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TapWaterDev@reddit

Was it? 😂 shit well that's ruined my joke

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christianjwaite@reddit

:) The pandas won the lawsuit.

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comeonboro@reddit

Na the pandas sued and won. Hence WWE

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TapWaterDev@reddit

Those bastard lefty activist panda lawyers ruining our sports...

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GlitchingGecko@reddit

Getting grounded.

They usually had to force me to play with others, so I had zero issue with being told I couldn't go out for two weeks.

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Dr-dog-dick@reddit

No better punishment than watching the 1998 Royal Rumble. An all time classic in my opinion.

The same year where the undertaker threw mankind off the hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

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