Did you ever get the slipper at home?

[austinsmam]

How times change! Was all the rage in the 70/80s, with Beano characters being whacked on a weekly basis. My OH got it at school and my mum kept a slipper just for smacking (yes, social services have been informed!). I know it was used in schools, but did anyone get it at home?

Not the slipper but we used to get smacked with a wooden spoon! I was born in 1971.

I avoid the smacking discussion in the presence of my parents as I am very anti smacking but it came up the other night after my dad had a few drinks. He didn't realise I was against smacking and came out with "well you were smacked and it didn't harm you!" , I managed to change the subject quite quickly and diplomatically.

my sisters and brothers used to get the belt it was a leather one whith a very large buckle oooh it was painful! at school girls got the slipper (trainer)and the lads got the cane

I have never spoken to my parents about it. However, I have told my chldren and they just think it is hilariously funny.

How times change - for the better.

It was whatever mum had to hand in my house; the dog lead, a belt, a slipper, wooden spoon, the flex from the hoover (that one leaving a horseshoe shaped welt on my arm) and fairly frequently; like Hecate's mum it was lashing out in temper. My Dad, his hand, but very rarely, only once or twice that I can remember.

I never got the belt at school though it was used until I was in first/second year of high school in 1981/82 (this was Scotland). Our form teacher whose subject was latin had a belt called Boris that had two prongs with a square of leather on the end of each. Rumour has it that she had caused some boys to need hospital treatment for the injuries she inflicted.

Changed days indeed.

sounds like i got off lightly

My father never touched me, but my mother told me to hold out my hand then she'd smack my hand with hers. That stopped when I smacked her back when I was around 13/14.

I think my brother got the belt once from my father. He definitely got the slipper at prep school.

Yes, my mum used to hit me on the bum with her slipper or flipflop in the summer!

Very occasionally my dad would be tasked with smacking me and would get me to put a book down my trousers and he'd hit the book while I had to yell as if it hurt! He is still a softy now!

Actually always assumed I'd do the same with mine but when it came to it I realised there were better/more effective/less reactive methods.

lol i remember getting a flip flop too

I remember one Christmas, I was in a toy shop choosing a present for my little brother and threw a paddy because I couldn't have the toys I wanted NOW! So Mum took me outside and knelt down, pulled my pants don and put me across her knee and spanked me. No one turned a hair at all on the busy high street. I was about 5 1/2 at the time.

yup, slipper / flip flop in winter / summer respectivley from my mum, hand from my dad i think, but it was mainly my mum (born 74)
it seems very now even to think about it but it seemed normal at the time.

Seems like it more Mums who took care of discipline.

Slipper from my dad - 98% of the time due to his very bad temper/anger management issues.

Several frantic whacks on the (clothed) bum with it, up until my teenage years.

He was attacked disciplined more harshly by his parents up til the age of 22 years. obviously it "didn't do me any harm"

Born 72 btw, and brought up by my dad.

Got the pump at school and the wooden spoon at home.

No but giot the back of the hairbrush

Slipper, cane, wooden spoons and hands from my mum. She broke a wooden spoon on my head once (for getting out of bed), I saw stars!

Then in my teens I was attacked by my dad on a number of occasions. Horrible. I am against physical punishment but secretly terrified I will lash out in anger like my parents did.

Sorry to hear that Beatrix, May i ask how old you are?

Yep carpet beater also and a tennis racquet - Stepmonster wasn't coosey - if there wasn't anything at hand the back of her hand very hard across your face surficed!

My excuse for a father favoured his fists!

I am like you Beatrix completely against smacking and try very hard not to behave like my parents (said loosley) did.

sorry to hear of you bad times to Madame

Nope, used to get a smack on the bum if we really acted up off my father. I never remember my mother touching me. My cousins husband who is one of four boys, regularly used to get beat with anything to hand quite severely by his stepfather and so did his other brothers. Young boys obviously grow up, and they waited til he started on the youngest one day and beat stepfather very nearly to death, he still has a limp now and a disfigured face. Needless to say, i wont be putting a hand on any of mine!!

I got the wooden spoon, about 3 times in my childhood, with no warning, usually when me and db were drying up, Dad washing up.

We'd be fighting, bickering, barolling into the other room and suddenly, with no warning he would whip up the spoon from the draining board and come charging in and whack us on the arse with it. I rmember it was wet and covered with bubbles.

I have to say my db is exactly the same with his son.

Beatrix and MadameC, like you I am concerned that I might lapse into the behaviour exhibited by my father.

If I start shouting then I walk away as (in my case) there is a risk it could end very badly and I want to avoid hitting/attacking my beautiful dds.

My Mum whacked us with the heel of the slipper (the hard bit) when me and my DB were brawling in the front room, it was the only thing that would split us apart.

this wasn't the norm when I grew up in Sweden in the sixties

school teachers weren't allowed and parents didn't seem to need it

I was never smacked or hit and afaik most of my friends weren't either

as far as I remember we had quite a respectful attitude towards adults without this

I was born in England in 1966 and never "got the slipper". My DP, born in France in 1965, regularly did...