Were your parents nuts when you were a kid?

[BehindBlueI's]

My mother was nuts when I was a kid and she's nuts now if she's still alive. I wouldn't trust her to raise a puppy. The most reasonable thing she ever did for us was to give me and my sister away.

 

[Expat]

No pins in our house. Dad would use the belt when called upon but it had to be really serious for him to get involved so it was only a couple of times over the years. Mom used wooden spoons, spatulas, flyswats... whatever she could grab. She like to make us go out and cut our own switch too. So when not in school, I would eat a bowl of cereal and head for the woods, creek, neighbors... and stay gone until supper.

 

[Phil502]

If you would have asked me as a kid, I would have said, "Yeah".

Now? Nah, not really.

what he said

 

[churchmouse]

We had those yardsticks at our house too, when I was a kid.

We always hid the yardsticks. Dad would bust them on our backsides and legs.

Mom had a left hook from no-where. Never saw it coming....ever.

 

[MrsGungho]

We always hid the yardsticks. Dad would bust them on our backsides and legs.

Mom had a left hook from no-where. Never saw it coming....ever.

I know a Mom who may have busted a yard stick across a boys fanny.

 

[churchmouse]

I know a Mom who may have busted a yard stick across a boys fanny.

I have warmed up a few fanny's but never drew welts.

 

[Bunnykid68]

I have warmed up a few fanny's but never drew welts.

Pansie

 

[PwrCruz]

My mother was the sadistic parent, my brother and I would get a beating with what ever she could find usually it was a extension cord or a garden hose if we were out side but she had a way with a coat hanger that would make us shake with fear. But I still would take that than what she would do to my sisters. Her favorite thing to do was to drive them to JC Penny or Sears and give them their spankings there so not only did you get spanked but you got teased by all your friends at school.

 

[red46239]

I am the oldest of 4. My parents usually used just their hands.... Until I really did something bad.... then mom had a wooden paddle hanging on the wall about 3/4" thick with a cutout of a heart on it. I ended up with a few heart-shaped welts on my backside in my day. Looking back, I deserved every one of them and am a better person for it. I was a real pain in the rear to my parents for a while. It took going off to college for me to realize just how great my parents were (are).

Unfortunately my youngest sister (13 years younger) was not spanked growing up and it shows. She does not show my parents the kind of respect they deserve. I only hope she matures soon before she does something really stupid. She's 20 now...

 

[Bigc177]

My mom was like a ninja with a wooden spoon.

So was my Mom... She loved the wooden spoon w/ the three little slits in it, and she still loves chasing me around the house with it just to cut up with my kids. But in all honesty, I'm still petrified of that damned thing!

 

[gunsisgood]

Did everyone else have crazy sadistic parents or is it just me? And what is wrong with me that I now UNDERSTAND why they acted like this???

Both my parents were city police officers (IPD),
so you tell me ?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

When we got too big for mom to intimidate us, she outsourced the disciplinary actions to dad. I remember, more than once, "hiding" out in the bedroom when it was time for dad to come home. Sometimes he never came looking for us--I don't know if mom simply forgot or if she was playing psyops on us...and we never asked.

 

[churchmouse]

Pansie

Well, considering all the boy's are as big or bigger than I am and my daughter has laid me out on the ground more than once in Force on force training I feel pretty lucky they hold no malice..........

 

[KG1]

I learned hotwheels track stings like a biotch.

 

[Sgtusmc]

My dad gave me a big cigar to smoke and a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon to drink on my 6th birthday. I thought it was great at the time.

 

[Mark 1911]

I never felt that way about my parents. But I have often felt sorry for them, I can't imagine having to raise a kid like I was. I once asked my dad how it was that he didn't lose his temper with me more often when I was younger. He just grinned and said, "self defense".

 

[Mark 1911]

My dad gave me a big cigar to smoke and a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon to drink on my 6th birthday. I thought it was great at the time.

Are you related to this kid?

 

[Cozy439]

I learned hotwheels track stings like a biotch.

We had Miles of that track growing up and I swear much of it crossed our butts (when needed). We also had the SWITCH. The small flexible tree branch. And the swat was not the bad part; the bad part was watching mom walk ALL the way out to the tree to get it and then to watch her walk ALL the way back. There was a lot of time to think about consequences there. We tell this story at family get togethers, Mom denies it all. She says we make her sound like a child abuser. Three things make this untrue 1) We (almost) always deserved it. 2) It was not a daily thing, just enough to remind us we didnt want it often. 3) We are NOW reviewing this thru todays eyes, not in the context of when it happened. We have great folks.

 

[KG1]

My dad gave me a big cigar to smoke and a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon to drink on my 6th birthday. I thought it was great at the time.

Speaking of cigars. My dad caught me and my brother sneaking a cigarette and made us smoke a cigar and eat some chilli for dinner. I swear we both turned 3 shades of green.

 

[RedneckReject]

OP:

I know times are/were different... But honestly, to me, that sounds more like abuse than loving discipline. Maybe that's just me. Stabbing/poking with a pin? Seriously? Throwing dishes in a tantrum? Not cool.

In my life: I know there were plenty of times that what I'd done didn't deserve a swat or two...but that balances out quite well with as many times as I didn't get swatted when I probably should have.

A lot changed one day when I told my mom: "You know, just because you have a bad day at work doesn't mean you should take it out on me." I was 6 or 7 when I said that.

-J-

My mother was and still is a truly amazing woman. Yes, she had a pin in her visor. A diaper pin. It was so dull you could barely stab butter with it. She never drew blood, but the thought of a huge pin was still scary. I wouldn't say her throwing the dishes was a "tantrum" either. Four little kids running in and out of my kitchen screaming at the top of their lungs, pulling each others' hair, and tracking crap all over a newly mopped floor? Yeah I probably would have thrown down the dishes too. And yeah if I had told my mom not to take her bad day out on me my butt would have met the back side of that pink hairbrush. Then again when I was a kid my mom stayed at home. That might be another reason she was fed up with the way we acted. I've been a stay at home parent. I can be very frustrating