discipline.

[Kaak]

Were you disaplined as a child? How so?

I was well disciplined as a child. If I misbehaved, I was generally spanked by a belt if it was my dad, or a fly swatter if it was my mom. I'm glad they disciplined me as they did, and I think it made me into a "good" person... wattabout you?

[Bosh]

Got forced to hang around in the bathroom a good bit since if I was sent to my room I'd just read which I'd probably want to be doing anyway, got to love when a parent has to discourage a young kid from reading

[aaglo]

I got pulled from hair & ears and I got a lot of fillips

I was never beaten.

[Kaak]

comon people, i know you guys got beat as kids

[Dis]

not at all

I wish I was though.

my mother did try taking away tv privledges a few times. But that never worked.

[Pekka]

I never got hit as a child. Maybe that's why I now hit other people. I was disciplined with grounding for short time few times, and losing some of privilidges like 'no sylvester stallone movie for you this evening young man'. I had very liberal upbringing I guess. But I was basically a good kid, until I became a badazz teen.

Unnecessary to say I became a winner.

[Dis]

although I should admit here that I never really got in trouble. I was a good boy who always did as he was told.

I don't even remember getting punished when I got busted shoplifting when I was 8 or 9 years old.

But other than that, I rarely got in trouble. The laws I did break (under age drinking, smoking pot) I got away with.

My mom caught me and my friend looking at some porn once. I never got punished for that either.

But I like to think I turned out pretty good regardless

[Pekka]

However, I did get the hair pulling, but only small ones and only few times. And that was when I was BAD. I really didn't get yelled too loud either.. Iw as yelled few times, but not like mad yelling.

[Pekka]

Dissident, yeah I think I was pretty much like you, did what I was told to do and that's it. I've braken few laws,but nothing serious and these were when I was little older (a teenager still however). My mom found my porn stash once (when I was teen) and she took them away from me .. I would have protested, but I was too embarrassed . She left my few softcore magz though, I had few playboys too, those she left to my stash and took the hard stuff away.. no punishment naturally but she said 'I thought you'd have some of that porno like curious young men do, but jeesh I never new you had a collection like that!'. I was always kind of a perv.

[Dis]

she left the playboys!!

spoiled. Damn, and I thought I was spoiled

[Pekka]

Yeah she left the playboys

[Combat Ingrid]

@ Pekka and Diss.

Btw, I was never hit as a child
But they made me stay in my room when it was my favourite tv show

[Whaleboy]

Physical violence against your children is less acceptable than adult-adult assault. The reason being they cannot fight back. The argument for spanking is that otherwise the children would be out of control, yet that is not the case with people I know that were never hit. Indeed, those brought up with an element of violence are more likely to think it is ok.

When parents hit their children, it is rarely, if ever a rational, reasoned response, and usually when they have lost control of the situation, and the only way to reassert their power is to use their superior physical strength. That is a sad indictment on the parenting ability, patience, and communication ability of the parent in question, indeed any parent that routinely hits their children probably shouldnt have any.

[Gangerolf]

I was never beaten. My parents did yell a lot though, I don't think that's a very rational, reasoned response either.

[Verto]

Good ol' spankings.