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?

I was smacked occasionally as a child but never with an implement, just a hand. It's not affected me at all.

I used to get the hairbrush and a couple of times the wooden spoon!

I still remember being really naughty one day during the summer and my mum hitting the backs of my legs.

We all laugh at the fact that I as running about with my shorts on with a hand print with the fingers clear to see and nobody batted an eyelid.

We only got smacked if we were really naughty.

We only ever got it, if we had been really naughty too.

No. Just smacked occasionally when parental tempers were fraught.

Comewhinewithme - are you related to me?? My mum was a whizz with the Scholl throwing. She was also keen on making us pick a shoe from her wardrobe for punishements...that what a barrel of fun!! In all fairness though, she didn't favour using her hand over the many other implements she regularly employed (b. 78 btw).

I got the slipper at school once, aged 7, for some incredibly mild offence. Bent over in front of the entire class

Mum lashed out randomly, so you had no idea whether she would hit you or not. 'Just' slaps mostly, though she would pull your pants down to do it on your bare arse - even in the street. Dad administered proper beatings and would lift you above his head to throw you on the floor etc.

I do not agree with any violence towards anybody, ever, and particularly not children. It did nothing to improve our behaviour whatsoever but was just a a symptom of my dad's mental illness and mum's total lack of parenting direction. It was just temper. All it did was humiliate us and make us wish we could hurt them back, although we never would have.

God I'd forgotten about the use of the Scholl sandal! Hand, hairbrush and School were common. But my mother's piece de resistance was a riding whip and when in a really foul mood it would be the wrong end. The worst thing you could do was cry then she would hit harder and for longer - guilt I suppose

provincial

we were smacked but never with an implement.

Sounds like i was lucky my Mum, never owned a pair of Dr Scholls

Has any one had a pair of Scholls? i prefered birkenstocks

Not slippers, just fists really.
Oh, and my father did use his shoe but, silly him, he forgot to take it off first.
Oh how we laughed

onepiece, beatrix and madamec, and others who are not finding this so 'Oh how amsuing our paretns were when they beat the shit out of us' the main thign to remember (and I tell myself regularly) is that you know it's wrong and you shouldn't, which is a good lot more than our parents did, and it is this that will stop you.
I have lsot it a few times but I know enough to leave the room and stomp up and down the stairs a few times until I calm down.

sorry Jack to hear of your bad times too

I was born in 87 and I think hitting your kids had more or less gone out of fashion by then. But I do very distinctly remember my sister getting smacked by my mother and knowing it was because she was angry and not because my sister had really done anything wrong - which is why I won't smack my kids.

DP was born same year as me though and when he started secondary boarding school (in 98 and in England) the prefects were still allowed to hit the younger boys! I couldn't believe it when he told me.

I was born in 81 and my dad hit me a couple of times (just with his hand). It made me terrified of him and I still don't have a great relationship with him. I would never hit my own children. He did mention once a couple of years ago in conversation that I was smacked as a kid and 'it never did me any harm'. I didn't have the balls to say anything to him and ended up getting really sloshed after he'd left

I've come back late to answer austinsmam's question...I'm early 30s.

TheProvinicalLady - image of you being thrown from over your dad'd head is truly shocking. I was thrown around by my dad but I was a teenager.

Beatrix were you parents older than most?

we did , a hard heeled gold mule. also the hairbrush.

hifi How old are you?

No they were very young parents. My mum had been brought up super strictly (with a much older father,my gf). The thing with my dad developed because he was having a terrible time and I became the scapegoat.

Beatrix sounds like your Mum used what she learnt for your GF

I was born in 1958, and my mother was adamantly against any sort of corporal punishment and never hit us. Dad toed the line except once when we woke him from his afternoon sleep (tropical childhood and the afternoon kip was sacrosanct - and the bane of our existence). He hit both of us twice. I was 5 and have never forgotten or forgiven it.

Never hit at school, either; so far as a I recall none of my many schools hit girls.

By comparison, a lot of my contemporaries were walloped by their parents. It never seemed to modify their behaviour much. Although the worst offenders I remember were a family of JWs, where the mother especially was incredibly heavy handed. They are all now pretty odd as adults.

I was never hit by my mum or dad that I can recall.
My parents are both Irish and born in the 1930's. Both mum ( she was beaten very badly/ by her mum and nuns/ still has scars @ 75+) and dad (he was forced to stand on tables when his teachers beat him).
There is no way beating is acceptable

That's so sad EleanorRigby.

Sometimes. Usually just a smack with a hand though