Poll of the Day > Did your dad used to whoop your ass?

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He actually punched me in the face.

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But we were playing boxing, so I guess it's fair game.

Just once... probably no more than five times
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i'd have to do something really awful, so it was very very rare, but yes, ok?
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Nope, just got spanked when I was younger, and looking back I deserved it
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No but my mom would.
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Oh yeah. Got the full on hand to bare ass spanking.

He shoved me into a wall once, but my parents were divorced he didn't have much of a parental role for me at the time where you would actually spank someone.

No, my parents were smart.
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Nah, we were rough-housing once when I was 12 and he gave be a black eye with a stray elbow, but nothing intentional.
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No, never received any beatings. HE was too busy at work and my mom usually just took away what she knew I loved most.
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Every opportunity he had

Would only dish out physical punishment for misbehaving - spankings turned into a stick turned into a jockeys whip, holding me and my little brother underwater when we got into a fight during a camping trip.. now that I think about it, I remember him slapping my face when I burped at a BBQ..

But mentally it was all the time, everything from being a loser, idiot, failure all the way up to 23. There was no pleasing that man.

Didnt support the family, wouldnt let my mum work.. her role was to look after 3 kids and feed us on welfare while he spent thousand and thousands of dollars on himself

Once the kids were done with school she got a job and has been there for 17 years now, now my Dad is telling her to quit so he can get more welfare money

Anyway, yeah, wish my brothers would move outta there and grant him the only thing he's ever wanted from us - to leave him and mum alone
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If I did something I knew was wrong then yeah. Worst one I ever got was when I was eleven. I let all my step brothers chickens out of their pens and then made up a story saying some guy came out of the woods and did it
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GanglyKhan posted...

No, my parents were smart.

lol if you don't beat your kids for misbehaving, the world will do it for you.
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I deserved it nearly every time I remember and the ones I don't remember I'm sure I did.
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My mom would smack me if I did something bad and my dad would pop my hands whenever he caught me lying about something. I got more smacks from my mom but they weren't really painful, I would feel bad about whatever I did afterwards though. However, my dad's hand poppings, while infrequent, were absolutely brutal and I made sure never to lie to him again.
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Lokarin posted...

Just once... probably no more than five times

This. The threat was usually more than enough, and even when I did get a beating, it wasn't much more than a traditional spanking (occasionally with a belt). I was a little bastard as a kid, but I was also extremely well-behaved unless I thought it was an absolute lock I wouldn't get caught doing whatever it was I wanted to do wrong. The worst he ever did was basically choke-slam me into a laundry basket when I was a teenager because I was really pushing boundaries hard.

If my father had ever actually beaten me legitimately, I would have been dead. For the first 15 years or so of my life he was a hard motherfucker, and I probably wouldn't have stood a chance against him even if I had a gun. But he wasn't one of those guys who always feels like they have to prove themselves - he knew damned well he could kill most people he met, so he didn't start fights, and he was generally pretty good at defusing them.

The fact that he could put a fist through a wall (or a door, or break a chair) when he was ultra-pissed helped keep that fear fresh, though (not that he was doing that constantly, but it happened a few times). If I'm honest, if he'd been a total pushover or the sort of parent who absolutely insists on trying to reason with kids and not hit them in any way, I would have been an uncontrollable little shit.


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My dad tries to mentally and emotionally abuse me until this day. My grandfather did the same before he died. These are the only two people I ever laid hands on; both of them I grabbed by the neck and pinned them to a wall because it was the only way they would listen to me. And on both occasions I ended up running away from home right after.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The fact that he could put a fist through a wall

Ha, my dad did this once sort of - he slammed a door open but cause the doorstop wasn't doing its job the doorknob ticked the wall and put a hole in it
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My dad never whipped us girls but I saw him whip my brother for hitting my sister with a baseball bat when we were little. I was scared of him after that. When the phone rang for him he would snap his fingers and we had to sit and be quiet until he was done.
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I had the typical Asian parents so yes. Interesting enough, my mom did all the physical whooping, usually with a metal coat hanger or broom. My dad gave me that disappointing look and speech which hurt about as much emotionally as physically.
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minervo posted...

GanglyKhan posted...

No, my parents were smart.

lol if you don't beat your kids for misbehaving, the world will do it for you.

I think that's a really old way of thinking. There are plenty of ways to nurture kids into the way of the fucked up world without your kid getting beaten. Personal opinion.
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minervo posted...

GanglyKhan posted...

No, my parents were smart.

lol if you don't beat your kids for misbehaving, the world will do it for you.

Okay, man, I'm not one for humblebrags but I know that I can easily say I'm within the top 10% of my age group for "overall life quality" and not getting slapped or worse as a child probably helped a bit with that. By that I mean, never been in a physical altercation or fired from work or anything like that.

I truly, honestly feel bad for children whose parents are too impatient and too unwise to try and explain a situation or discipline without violence. Children mimic their parents as they grow older and while they may not resort to violence, they definitely will think that they can just brute force their way through life, which will nearly always blow up in their face.
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I got spanked as a young kid - Dad would do it mainly, but when he was out to sea (Navy), Mom would take up the slack. When I was older, they relied more on suspending privileges/grounding.
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Nope he was in the old mount gambier prison when i was growing up mostly my brother on the other hand ended up with a fractured hip after getting a kick up the arse when he landed on the carport cement mind you my father on his rare out of prison forays had bought us a rc car each and my brother smashed his.
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RedPixel posted...

minervo posted...

GanglyKhan posted...

No, my parents were smart.

lol if you don't beat your kids for misbehaving, the world will do it for you.

I think that's a really old way of thinking. There are plenty of ways to nurture kids into the way of the fucked up world without your kid getting beaten. Personal opinion.

Dude kids are getting away with too much today than when i was a kid 25 years ago.
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No just my mom
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Yea, and I deserved it each time. I was a stupid kid
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GanglyKhan posted...

humblebrags

This word is the literal definition of an oxymoron.

GanglyKhan posted...

they definitely will think that they can just brute force their way through life, which will nearly always blow up in their face.

Lol.
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My dad left when I was 2 and my brother was born.

My mom didn't want to parent and was in and out of mental institutions.

So didn't have discipline, structure or any kinda parenting as a kid.

I certainly got hit alot for the first 10 years of my life or so, we moved from one project to another every 3 months or so (my mom always said it was to avoid my dad, but later in life I figured that probably was not the reason). Once I got to Jnr High though I started fighting back, took kick boxing and judo at the Police Athletics League and playing sports.

Sports changed my life cause before that I just read books and didn't have friend or interact with anyone pretty much. Got involved in a Pickle Ball tournament at my jnr high and came in second and that started me down the path of both playing sports, and actually making friends.

Still read though, almost a book a day until I got married.
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Where's the option for right up until I whooped his?
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Revelation34 posted...

This word is the literal definition of an oxymoron.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that
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only when my brother and i misbehaved big time. he had a belt.
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No my dad died when i was 6. And if he ever punished me prior to that i do not remember. And my mother did not either.
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my mom used hangars
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Nooo i aint bein a bad boy here but he found out years ago that if he tried he wouldnt make it. He doesnt try anything i wont give it back. I dont start fights like some little shit
Its weird, never told anyone this, not even my friends
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Twice that I can remember, only when I'd really gone too far. I was intermittently a little shit and totally deserved it both times.
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Spankings, belt, and slaps at first. Then it turned into groundings Butters style. Having had a terrible memory my whole life, they'd ask me to do a chore, I'd forget, and I'd get grounded. I've literally been grounded more than half my teenage life because I'm the kind of person that forgets how my middle name is spelled.

Oh, and when my parents caught me with porn they made sure everyone in the near family knew to intentionally humiliate me, because hell is a "serious" thing "serious" people take seriously.

Wow, look at how well we all turned out? We're all posting on gamefaqs. I'm just fighting off anxiety attacks 24/7. I was an asshole to 3 of my friends today, I have a second sociopathic personality, and I can't remember what I had for breakfast. I'd say hardass parents know what they're doing.
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Yes. He would beat me just because the sun rose that day.
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Belt to ass. The bruises were not something I wanted to deal with again, so I learned to not get caught for shit.

Define "whoop your ass?". If you just mean a light smack at a young age then nope. If you mean being picked up by the throat and slammed to the ground at a young age then yes. Despite this my dad is actually the best out of my parents.
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My parents split up when I was really young, and he died a few years later. If he got rough with a five year old, they probably would have split up even sooner.
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GanglyKhan posted...

No, my parents were smart.

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Honestly a lot of the people Ive known who never got any kind of spankings as kids turned out to be absolutely insufferable adults
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Having your arse smacked as a kid is fine but some parents take that way too far and basically use their kids as a punchbag for their own miserable existence. That's until they become old enough to beat the shit out of their parents back. With that said I've never actually smacked my dad at all. It's just simply something I wouldn't do. Not out of fear but simply because I'm against the idea of beating the shit out of close family members and I'm not a fan of physical violence to begin with. I think mental abuse is much more damaging anyway. My dad still tries to do that shit now at times but he's not smart enough to do it so.
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Dad had a boat paddle or wooden pizza peel he would use. Only if I really deserved it and did something bad. Honestly don't think there is a right or wrong answer to the spanking issue. It depends on the kid. If all my dad did was take something away or ground me I wouldn't care. Because of what he did I am a well adjusted, fairly successful adult. And we both get along great.
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Whoop my ass? If that means what I think it means then nope. He might have slapped my arm or something whenever I did something stupid, but that's about it.
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Locke90 posted...

RedPixel posted...

minervo posted...

GanglyKhan posted...

No, my parents were smart.

lol if you don't beat your kids for misbehaving, the world will do it for you.

I think that's a really old way of thinking. There are plenty of ways to nurture kids into the way of the fucked up world without your kid getting beaten. Personal opinion.

Dude kids are getting away with too much today than when i was a kid 25 years ago.

Lazy/bad parenting and child rearing are not mutually exclusive though.
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A few times but I'll always admit that I deserved it. Same with my mom. She's slapped me a few times but for good reason.
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