2000’s kids did you get smacked by your parents? If so how did they do it? Did they use an object?

[EllieBeeeeeee]

Hi my name is Ellie. I was talking with my family about growing up the other day and the decision of discipline came up. Now mum being mum said the same old “I never really disciplined you kids” and “you wouldn’t survive when I was a kid” 🤣🤣. But when we were talking she said she got a lot of her methods from super nanny but also did smack us a lot and was wonder if anyone else from around the time I was born had a similar experience

Super nanny didn't smack

I grew up being smacked (80’s) I didn’t snack my kids (2000’s) their dad did occasionally

I was a 90s kid, I was probably only smacked about two or three times and always with huge regret from my mum afterwards.

My DH was a late 80s/90s kid. He was smacked often and with objects, which I find appauling. However, he retells these stories with humour and has a genuinely good relationship with his parents.

I had my dc in the 2000’s and absolutely did not use violence with my children!

I was a mother in the 2000s and I didn’t smack, and didn’t follow supernanny and ’naughty step’ either. Although unusually for the 70s/80s I wasn’t smacked by my parents either and only occasionally was sent to my room.

This has been discussed several times on here lately. Yes my parents smacked us.

Born 2001.
yes (belt)

Tbf when it has been discussed in the past it’s been about the 80s or 90s

My kids were born in early 2000s … I only smacked one of them once and felt dreadful after. I don’t think any of my friends smacked their kids … it was quite unusual by the 2000s IME

I had my kids in the 00s and no, I didn’t smack. Actually, I once smacked my son (palm of my hand) and felt terrible about it.

Smacking kids was definitely frowned on by then - it certainly wasn’t suggested by Supernanny, Dr Tanya Byron or any of the other parenting experts around at the time.

I was born in the 70s. My father never smacked us, our mother did (very rarely) and told me in the 90s that she regretted doing it. I don't think DH's parents ever smacked them. My children were born in the 2000s, we never smacked them.

To put that into cultural context, Sweden was the first country to outlawed all corporal punishment in 1979, Scotland was the first country in the UK to do the same in 2020.

It just seemed barbaric and cruel to me. So we never smacked ours . It also seems ridiculous to use violence on our children because what does it teach them !

Yes smacked alot born 78 with slippers wooden spoon, id never of done that to my children

Born early 90’s and my parents smacked us. Usually with a wooden spoon. It seemed fairly normal back then - most of my friends in primary school were smacked too. My parents have since said they wouldn’t do it if they could go back. I have a great relationship with my parents, so I don’t think it’s done damage in that sense. But I do wonder what impact it has had - like is my fear of failure or getting something wrong linked to it. Who knows.

I’ve got young children and wouldn’t dream of smacking them. Doesn’t make sense to hit a child to punish them for hitting another child!