Did any of you ever get slapped as a child?

My mother didn't need to be physical. The look and the verbal lashing was enough to give me nightmares.

Often, wooden spoon on the bare arse many a time and never did me a bit of harm, in fact...

Oh crap, gotta go, have an appointment at 6 with dominatrix debbie, it's the only way I can achieve pleasure.

A reminder that slapping a child is now illegal in Ireland. There is no good reason whatsoever to slap a child. 50 years of research cannot identify a single positive outcome. If you’re slapping your child, you’re not teaching them to behave appropriately. In fact, you’re teaching them that an appropriate action when being annoyed is to slap someone. Then a child is likely punished for taking the same action and hitting a sibling. You would press charges if another adult slapped you. Hence why it’s now illegal.

Parents used slapping as a final resort and I always deserved it. In fact, the times when I didn't get a slap I found worse because that meant disappointment rather than anger with me. Was very rare though and I can't remember any instances clearly so obviously meant little to me except to put some manners on me

Teachers at national school used to get the ruler, usually quite deserved. When I went into the headmasters class though he was a fairly vicious bastard and metre stick was used on the hand. Was disproportionate to the crime usually, he should have been pulled up on it but small village etc... only slaps that I have a bit of grudge about.

Secondary school time it had been banned but it didn't stop one old lad giving you a clitter or two around the ears - always fully deserved though so I have no bad memories of it

Saw a twenty something in pyjamas outside a shop in Dublin 1. Her unruly small kids provoked an horrendous, unjustified foul-mouthed tirade, and when that failed to restore order, she issued a beating that a medieval christian brother would've been ashamed of. A part of me wonders if she got the same as a kid. I can think of no other reason for her acting like that.

yes. not a hugh amount in comparison to some and yes maybe it did me no harm physically or mentally but who really knows these things.

have never raised my hand to my kids. how hypocritical would it be for me to tell them its wrong to hit and then hit them for something.

wakka12 wrote: »

I did. Only when I did something wrong, and it was effective way to make me stop doing that thing. I see nothing wrong with it at all

You like the bit of spanking

"It never did me any harm."

Someone countered that to me on boards once with "yes it did it made you think hitting a child was okay".

Still not entirely sure where I stand on the subject but it did make me think.

got a few ,but this was classic, my mother was a housekeeper for some Swedish people here in the late 60's [i was born 1960] they always had loads of Carlsberg in the house [don't think it had even came to Ireland then?] + loads of cigarette's so one day me and their youngest daughter decided to have a drink and a smoke,[we're only 8 or 9] so off we went into a room and opened the window[no ejits eh] next thing we heard my mam coming up the stairs so behind the wardrobe with the beer and out the window with the fag, sure she could smell the smoke a mile away, she grabbed me and started to slap me while the swedish lassie ran for the door, [her father was a giant of a man] at this stage the slapping had stopped but then i heard her father laughing out load and he shouted up to my mother 'They were drinking also ha,ha, ha,[ the little bitch had hung me out to dry], well the legs were red for the rest of the night.[my mother was a non drinker.]

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

"It never did me any harm."

Someone countered that to me on boards once with "yes it did it made you think hitting a child was okay".

I was hit with the wooden spoon and mums slippers, it taught me to have respect for my parents and do what they said, never done me any harm. Giving a child a small snack is ok although grounding or no games consoles would be better.

Be interesting to see the statistics. Someone add a poll before I dish out slaps.

My dad never hit me but my mother slapped me once but it was totally deserved.

Wooden spoon. Many, many times.
Like Batman I became skilled in the art of the dodge technique and developed a strategy for holding one end of the wooden spoon and refused to let go of it (obvious reasons) until I could successfully maneuver my ma away from the door and I could make a run for it.

Yes. My mother slapped us. Also used a wooden spoon. Got pepper or tobacco on the tongue for cursing.

Teacher in high infants smacked the sh1te out of us.
Principal did too and would hit with a Bamboo stick.
Vice Principal would jam her boney tumb into our backs but didn't slap.
5th and 6th class teacher smacked and would smack very hard across the face, it was a male teacher and he didn't hold back.
One teacher in secondary school did too bu then by 2nd year, it didn't started becoming an issue and pretty much became taboo