How were you disciplined as a child??

I was never physically disciplined, but my mother, wordlessly expressed her disappointment. Quite honestly that continued until she died. I felt a great sense of freedom then….just to be myself

My mother was a widow. She mostly punished by silence or slaps for annoying her. I can remember three frightening 'hidings' as they were called. School was being made to stand outside of the classroom or being shamed by the nuns.

It's very difficult to answer the post, my stomach is churning.

I was smacked once just before I was 3 for repeating a swear word my sister had picked up at school.My Aunt kept asking me to repeat it until my parents heard and I got smacked on my legs .
My lovely dad sat beside me and cried with me,
I have never sworn since and everyone who knows me won’t swear in my home .In fact I have shown the odd person the door for bad language.
In our house mum would say will you have a word with these girls,dad would lower his newspaper or book and day “that’s enough nonsense girls ,your mother is tired”
We had a neighbour who made a list of all her kids wrongdoings during the day and gave it to her husband to “deal with them” when he came home from work .Poor man had to use a slipper or a belt on them depending on the crime.Barbaric!!

Mum whacked me with whatever was handy. One I remember was a heavy wet cotton sheet straight out of the boiler (old fashioned version of a washing machine) right across my neck and shoulder. It was hot and heavy and hurt like hell. She believed in strict discipline.

My mother used to slap me at the top of my thigh such as to leave a red mark sometimes it was my hand my father never hit me

School was constant canings

Sago I feel for the child you were. How dare they treat us like that?

Beaten up by my 'father' and having to stay off school til my cuts and bruises healed. Only once though. My older sister didn't fare so well.

I only remember being smacked once by my Mum. She had left the teapot on the hearth to keep warm and I was walking across the room with my head in a book, kicked it over, tea all over the rug. She smacked me so hard on the leg that I had a handprint there for days. I think she just reacted. Dad never disciplined any of us.

I was slapped across the face by a teacher when I was 8 years old for something I did not do. She did it in the yard just after the final bell, I knew she didn’t like me…but still, I hope she is rotting in hell.

Sago

I had two abusive patents and a bully for a brother.
I couldn’t begin to tell you of the beatings and cruelty.

Our children were brought up in a safe and loving environment, we praised and encouraged them and still do

Yes- I was very careful not to treat our children as I was treated. Possibly a bit too ‘ soft’ but they’ve grown up well and are all successful in their lives and are good parents to their children.

I had two abusive patents and a bully for a brother.
I couldn’t begin to tell you of the beatings and cruelty.

Our children were brought up in a safe and loving environment, we praised and encouraged them and still do

Greenfinch

I was only ever verbally disciplined. There was never anything physical.

Same here. No physical discipline.

I was hit by a Head Teacher once for something I did not do.
My brother was caned excessively at Grammar School, just for forgetting to take in some homework. My mother rarely interfered in school matters but she went into his school and complained.

I was never punished physically at home. My parents wouldn’t have dreamt of smacking me. A reasonable talking-to would have been the worst that would happen. Anyway, I was never really naughty, so it didn’t arise. Not a goody-goody, just happy.

At infant school, I was once hit on the hand with something we called the “iron ruler” for not knowing my seven times table. I can’t express the depth of the scorn I felt for the teacher who did this,

Just a telling off from my Mum

When I was only 8ish at Primary school I was given ‘the slipper’ on my bottom by a male teacher in front of the whole class. It was the boy sitting next to me that had misbehaved. I was far too shy at that age to do anything wrong.

I didn’t tell my Mum until I was an adult and she was absolutely livid!

I was only ever verbally disciplined. There was never anything physical.

Am sorry nanna8, this is one reason why I am glad smacking children is no longer done, or at least shouldn’t be, because sone parents don’t know where to draw the line.

I got a clip from my Mum I don’t remember ever being hit by my Dad.

Mine were very nasty, more my mum than dad. I had permanent bruises which I thought were normal until I spoke to other kids. I loved my Mum but she was very erratic and sometimes I didn’t know why I was being hit.