What's the worst form of discipline you experienced as a child?

[PartyPooper]

I was an angel, so I was never punished. ;-)

But, others in my family weren't so fortunate.

What about you?

[Roon]

1. My loony vietnam vet step-father..

came after me with a gun and tried to kill me for shooting an arrow in the air. It made the papers.

[mike_c]

2. this seems rather comical, and it certainly wasn't the worst...

...punishment imposed during my misspent youth, but when I was a child my grandmother whipped us kids with a switch cut from trees in the orchard when we pissed her off. That wasn't the worst part, however. The really terrible part was that she made us go pick the switches ourselves, with very real threats that if they weren't up to a real good lashing she'd go pick her own and give us a double whipping. Selecting those branches and bringing them back to the house was far more terrifying than the actual whipping was! The memory still makes my knees weak!

on edit: This was meant to reply to the post that started this thread.

[Union Thug]

3. My mom was like Indiana Jones...

...with an orange plastic hotwheels track!

Geezus, we'd step out of line and that track would start crackin'. We'd hide under our beds and there mom would be, blindly swinging that track in the darkness, hoping to land a random blow...

Oh the joys of childhood!

[alphafemale]

4. I survived . It's an on-going struggle to not pass the pain forward.

It was poison. It stops with me.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. All of it, cause it means I fucked up and got caught.

No one likes to get caught.

[Mizmoon]

6. "verbally admonish"

by having mom scream in my face with all the fury she could muster. She called me terrible names. It was horrible. I still have to try hard to tune her cruel remarks out of my head.

[cally]

7. Disdain

I know when judged against all the physical abuse that it seems like nothing, but when my parents had no respect for me I felt awful. It only happened once or twice, but it was enough. A few times I was obnoxious to someone who was younger or a new comer to my neighborhood. My parents were ruthless with their disdain.

I did the normal things that frustrate parents. I came home drunk once or twice as a teen. I skipped my curfew a few times. I dated a guy that any parent would worry about. None of that bothered my parents much but the few times I was mean scared them. Looking back, I was way more scared of my parents disdain than my friends who were beaten.

[Gothic Sponge]

8. I was neglected....

:cry:


but i'm okay today!......Yeah right! ;)

[roguevalley]

9. my parents' disappointment.

[Colin Ex]

10. My old religion teacher

says he keeps his daughter in the basement, chained to a cinderblock, and he burns her with a cigarette when she's bad.

My old religion teacher has quite the sense of humor.

-C

[unblock]

11. spanking is NOT a form of discipline

on the rare occassion that i was spanked, it was very obvious that my father got so angry that he himself totally lost HIS discipline and spanked me.

i was very well-behaved and getting my parents disapproval was the worst form of punishment. getting sent to my room was their way of making it clear that they disapproved, but it wasn't having to stay in my room that hurt, it was the disapproval.

just like the books say.


personally, i've noticed that parents who spank the most have the worst-behaving children.

hmm....

[pansypoo53219]

12. other

THE 3 FINGER DIG! and i still have the nail marks to prove it.

[Solly Mack]

13. Shame. My mom could cause you to feel ashamed for anything bad you did

and in such a way that you knew shameful actions were a burden and something you had to set right. She made you feel the wrongness of hurting another or not keeping your word.

Mind you, she didn't shame her kids for stupid shit or in ways that made you feel inferior.

[democratreformed]

21. Yeah, my dad was a master at this too.

All of us kids always said we'd rather be beaten that have one of his "lectures".

[flaminbats]

14. my parents were good to me...

we had a set of written rules. I was allowed no more than four hours of TV every week. If I broke a rule once I would lose those four hours. If I broke another rule, I could spend four hours in my room writing "I will not..." until this time was up. If I showed disrespect to my parents or teachers, I would be spanked or would be required to perform knuckle push-ups on our driveway.

As I got older my parents naturally eased up on the rules, and eventually there was no need for them.

[Race4Peace]

15. I'm still a kid, so I guess I should say "Well, so far..."

But I can't since the worst I have been through isn't on the list. What was it? I'll tell you...




I came home from school, I was slipping with some of my grades(fourtunately I recovered), but for some damnfuckhellassshit reason, my dad goes tearing through my backpack, like the soulution was in there. And as a Democrat that will never consent to any search under any circumstance and backs that up with the 4th Ammendment, I will never forgive him for that.

[InkAddict]

16. The Silent Treatment

Sometimes for days - Mommie Dearest

[Blue-Jay]

18. The silent treatment was the worst

Still is, and I'm 37.

[Angelus]

17. Writing.

Whenever my brother, sister, and I would get into trouble, my dad would make us write five or so pages of sentences like "I will not smart off to mom and dad" on each line, front and back. God...I hated doing that. I would rather have been spanked. At least that was over and done with in a couple seconds. :shrug:

[wickerwoman]

19. Hmm.

It's tough to say because "verbal admonishment" is pretty broad. Is that when mom and dad sit you down for a talk or when they shout so loudly your ears ring for hours? Do they say "We love you, but you shouldn't..." or "You're worthless and I wish you'd never been born."

The worst physical punishment I ever went through was being shoved into a wall a few times. But that isn't really the same as a beating.

I don't think you can look at the individual act outside of the context of the whole relationship. Otherwise loving parents who spank their kids now and again do less damage than psychologically distant parents who resent their kids for ever being born but never lay a hand on them.

[HuckleB]

20. Spanking was the worst, as in least effective.

It can't be tied to the logic of learning, and, besides, it's over quick, unlike other punishments (which don't teach anything either), so what kid with half a brain gives a rat's ass? I sure didn't. Kids who are active know pain, and it doesn't bother 'em.