Did you ever get the belt?

FameHungry · 24-09-2013 02:24AM

Nope. I got the wooden spoon though...

Allyall · 24-09-2013 02:24AM

The Wooden Spoon.
Always. Loads of them broke over my legs.

Chased around the kitchen table or the dining room table, always to eventually get caught, she never gave up.:( She was good

Although i don't hold it against my mother, on more than one occasion my brother got involved and caught me. :mad:
One time i got the thing for turning fried eggs etc.. (Spatula?) steel one.. Owww.. That stung like bejaysus, i never forgot it, i didn't speak to anyone in the house for a week, and it was never used again.

ronan45 · 24-09-2013 09:27AM

My Mam used the wooden spoon but when my dad couldnt find the belt he used a wire hanger, Hated the wire hanger. He would twist it up into like long shank and give you three of the best ! :mad:

gobnaitolunacy · 24-09-2013 09:30AM

The wooden spoon, for some reason was the weapon of choice.

Snapped it in two once, all hell broke loose.

whiskeyman · 24-09-2013 09:35AM

We got the potato masher.
Mum kept losing the wooden spoon.

Stojkovic · 24-09-2013 09:41AM

The Flying Slipper in our gaff ;

http://youtu.be/IGkNzbRDvKs

Savoir.Faire · 24-09-2013 09:48AM

ronan45 wrote: »

My Mam used the wooden spoon but when my dad couldnt find the belt he used a wire hanger, Hated the wire hanger. He would twist it up into like long shank and give you three of the best ! :mad:

That sounds horrific.

Dyr · 24-09-2013 09:53AM

I got many belts

But never with a belt

24-09-2013 10:04AM

I got the slipper and wooden spoon, I was a brat though so I wouldn't hold it against me ma. I'd do something just because I was told not to !

I don't think a slap is bad at all. We live in too much of a politically correct society where we're afraid to upset the do gooders when we should be more concentrated on doing what's best for the Children.

Beating is unacceptable and slapping for no reason or when another way can be found.

Also the most important of all, slapping a Child is wrong if the parent does not know how to correctly discipline a child or allows the child to do whatever it wants and that being the result of it's bad behaviour , this is the key difference and what the do gooders fail to understand.

A lot of problems today though is because parents don't care what their Children get up to and allow them to hang around in gangs or let the streets rear them ar allow them to hang around friends that are not so nice.

The do gooders may have been beaten as Children and see slapping as unacceptable and this whole movement of no slapping may not always be in the best interests of the Child.

I don't think anyone including the state has the right to question a parent in the way they bring up or discipline their Children unless it's clear that there is Neglect and/or abuse, this is different, but in most cases others, including the State should mind their own business.

BeerWolf · 24-09-2013 10:09AM

No, but I got the wooden spoon!

Dyr · 24-09-2013 10:09AM

Stojkovic wrote: »

The Flying Slipper in our gaff ;

http://youtu.be/IGkNzbRDvKs

My ma once flung at a wooden clog at my brother

In fairness he was a college student at the time and a poxbottle

cletus van damme · 24-09-2013 10:20AM

was battered all through my childhood.

father used his fists and the spoon or anything that came to hand.
mother used the spoon sparingly cos she preferred hairpulling and pinching.
She had a great technique (kinda marvel at it now in a weird way) where she would pinch your arm , twist it and lift.
It was a fcuking killer.

often thought about giving my dad a kicking just to get revenge but never seemed fair on him being older now , sounds odd must be my martial arts training.

plus we get on better , never forgiven them but kinda tolerate them now they seem better people.

Think they have their own mental issues and oddly for such a violent family they rarely drank.

BeerWolf · 24-09-2013 10:23AM

cletus van damme wrote: »

was battered all through my childhood.

father used his fists and the spoon or anything that came to hand.
mother used the spoon sparingly cos she preferred hairpulling and pinching.
She had a great technique (kinda marvel at it now in a weird way) where she would pinch your arm , twist it and lift.
It was a fcuking killer.

often thought about giving my dad a kicking just to get revenge but never seemed fair on him being older now , sounds odd must be my martial arts training.

plus we get on better , never forgiven them but kinda tolerate them now they seem better people.

Think they have their own mental issues and oddly for such a violent family they rarely drank.

They're sadists...

24-09-2013 10:26AM

No, never

5starpool · 24-09-2013 10:26AM

The sally rod was my mothers weapon of choice way back in the day. Mostly it was just threat, but occasionally if we didn't shut up and go to sleep (I shared a room with my brother) she would leather the hell out of us, but considering we were under about 5 heavy blankets it was mostly the noise of it as you couldn't really feel it. The noise was terrifying though to a kid. The occasional whack on the back of the legs with it was the actual worst of it. The threat was usually enough to send me running and stop whatever I was doing to incur wrath.

niallb · 24-09-2013 10:41AM

whiskeyman wrote: »

Mum kept losing the wooden spoon.

My mum kept losing the wooden spoon too...
I got into fierce trouble when we moved house and they realised the old piano had half a dozen wooden spoons dropped down inside it :-)

anncoates · 24-09-2013 10:42AM

Occasionally got the slipper or my ma's Scholl sandal but never to a beating extent: just a few whacks on the arse or leg. It was always heat of the moment (I really was a bold, cheeky little bollocks at times) which actually seemed better as I'd hate the idea of that premeditated, methodical Gonna Give You a Paddling type of punishment.

Don't hold it against her at all although nowadays she hates the thought that she ever did it.

I have two pretty high-spirited/boisterous boys and would give then a smack on the arse/hand/leg the odd time as a last resort but as they get older, I rarely do it as I find withholding their treats: swimming, trips, tablet/N3DS etc which sits better with me because no - normal - parent is exactly going round feeling ecstatic because they smacked their child.

biko · 24-09-2013 10:45AM

No, but I got a pair of gloves one Christmas.
And I wanted Lego

wmpdd3 · 24-09-2013 11:06AM

yes. all of the above. didn't work.

if i was going to get the belt for a minor thing then i may as well duck off school and get the bus to cork for the day. same punishment.

seamus · 24-09-2013 11:20AM

tadonnen wrote: »

http://www.crimecouncil.gov.ie/statistics_cri_crime_table3.html

# of crimes per year. Unfortunately it's raw numbers rather than per capita.

Volume of crime does indeed appear to be trending downward from the mid 80s on.

In graph form, attached. The proportion of headline crimes (murders, etc) has remained fairly static since the mid-80's, but crime overall since then has been on a steady downward trend.

It's still hard to draw any solid conclusions from the data since the method of recording and public attitudes to reporting crime will have changed a lot over time; people will be more likely to report crime now than in the 80's or the 50's; individual Gardai would be more likely to record small incidents than they would previously have been.

Shane-KornSpace · 24-09-2013 11:24AM

I got the hand a few times. No spoon or belt.

Sir Humphrey Appleby · 24-09-2013 12:44PM

seamus wrote: »

In graph form, attached. The proportion of headline crimes (murders, etc) has remained fairly static since the mid-80's, but crime overall since then has been on a steady downward trend.

It's still hard to draw any solid conclusions from the data since the method of recording and public attitudes to reporting crime will have changed a lot over time; people will be more likely to report crime now than in the 80's or the 50's; individual Gardai would be more likely to record small incidents than they would previously have been.

The other problem is that many things that were recorded in large numbers in the past as crimes are no longer recorded at all, for intances they were in the 40's through to the 60's tens of thousands of crimes recorded for both failing to possess a dog licience and for no light on bicycles (truth!!).
Another thing is that the CSO figures do not record crimes prosecuted by agencies other than An Garda Siochana, for instance fare evasion on public transport (CIE and Veolia are the prosecutorial agencies)/ No TV licence (An Post is the prosecutorial agency).
It is very difficult to compare Irish Crime Statistics for many types of crime over any period because of changes in public or prosecutorial policy.

old hippy · 24-09-2013 12:52PM

The belt, the spoon, the hand. Up until I was 16/17.

That was my Victorian style mom trying to instil her own set of "values" in me. It stopped when I finally slapped her across the face. I'm not proud of that but I did what had to be done.

o1s1n · 24-09-2013 01:11PM

No, my parents didn't beat their children thankfully. And I turned out fine (see, I can use that argument too)

Henders · 24-09-2013 01:15PM

ronan45 wrote: »

My Mam used the wooden spoon but when my dad couldnt find the belt he used a wire hanger, Hated the wire hanger. He would twist it up into like long shank and give you three of the best ! :mad:

I have to say I am a traditionalist in this debate and don't see the harm in a leather belt or a slipper used sparingly, I know a lot of people out there would disagree with me on this issue. I would not however condone the use of a coat hanger in disciplining a child. I don't see how a coat hanger could be used in discipline without causing marks and injury.

sparksfly · 24-09-2013 05:41PM

I got beaten regularly by a "christian" brother in secondary school. I turned from being a reasonably bright student in primary school into a nervous wreck in secondary school. I reckon it affected me for the first 15 years of my post school life.

remsburgsgirl · 24-09-2013 05:45PM

It makes me very sad to think of a child getting hit/smacked by any adult...I'm pregnant & have a toddler & a 9 year old & when I think of what power adults could hold over such little people by raising a hand to them it makes me very sad

I don't know why, and I've often thought about the reasons why, but for some reason treating a child with abusive power just because you're an adult really makes me tear up just thinking about it...and I wasn't really smacked/hit much as a kid, more threats of a wooden spoon and maybe the very rare smack on the arse from my exhausted frustrated mother (more emotional abuse from my loser of a father)

I'm not saying my kids can't be little sh*ts just like a lot of kids (holy god my 9 year old is trying at the best of times) but they learn their lesson in a million and one other ways without me or their dad having to resort to violence

fryup · 24-09-2013 06:17PM

lkionm wrote: »

I got the Hurley and the wooden spoon and this was off my mother in the late 90s

in her late 90s??

Did you ever get the belt?

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