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?

[Hassled]

I didn't get the slipper - I got the zori (Japanese flipflop - my father was born in Japan). I can only really remember it once though - for scribbling on walls aged around 8 (so old enough to know better).

[suzybsue]

Did we deserve it, just because we ignored warnings?

[funtimewincies]

My mum used to get my dad to smack us, but he never could. He'd shut the door, put us over his knee in case my mum came in and then clap his hands 3 times really loudly. I was bright enough to make the right noises and cry.

A lovely man but I still find it that he found it easier to be thought of as someone who would hit his own children than to stand up to my mum.

[atigercametotea]

Yes,(born 1978!)
Slipper(mostly when we were younger) and then progressed to belt (when we were a bit older), which if dad wasn't wearing one, we were made to go get one...pick it out, so to speak!
Remember coming into the living room with the belt and handing it to my dad and telling him I didn't want it, as it hurt too much and he shouldn't be doing it (I was about 13). He was incensed that I was arguing with him about it (probably over a minor thing as well).

Annoys me that my mum stood by and let all this happen.

Weirdly and maybe wrongly have an ok relationship with both parents? Do you think they have blanked it out and hope we have too?

Still remember the above incident as clear as day, have never mentioned it to them.

Would kill anyone who laid a hand on my children! I'm terrified of them having similar memories as I have smacked their bums occassionally...

[FairLadyRantALot]

well wasn't so much the warning of the spoon we used to ignore, more my mum telling us to NOT do xy or z, iykwim....
what I meant is, she wouldn't just randomly in a fit lash out....we were asked, than told, than told again, than told with warning of spoon than it was done...

[suzybsue]

Fair, you told and warned a fair few times
I dont think we got that many.

[FairLadyRantALot]

just thought I clarify, why I said my mum only did it when we generally deserved it....didn't happen often anyway....
althoguh, I am sure we did try her patience often...

[ShellingPeas]

We had the wooden spoon - once my mother hit me with it so hard that it broke and left a huge welt on my thigh. We also had slaps with the hand. I'm amazed at the number of other people who also had the spoon - I've always thought it was only me and my sister.

I don't smack my kids - it's unwarranted and it was always due to loss of control and rage when my mother smacked me.

[FairLadyRantALot]

Shelling...myy mum broke the spoon on my sister...or so she thought....what had happened was, she had knocked in on the kitchen side....
but I think that was the last time my mum ever used it, think it terrified her....

[suzybsue]

Shelling i was the same, i didnt know anyone else who got spoon.

[austinsmam]

did you all grow up in 70/ 80`s?

[suzybsue]

I was born in 74

[flatcapandpearls]

Born in 75, got slipper, hairbrush, belt and a walking cane, which no one needed to walk with so god knows why we had it. I was being hit like this until late teens.

I can remember once for some reason I was called into a room full of guests and told I was rude or thick, and my stepdad wrapped my head in parcel tape while everyone laughed. It hurt so much and was mortifying.

[canttouchthis]

yep, got the slipper, but very rare that it got used. probably twice at the most.

[flatcapandpearls]

I also got the strap at school, no escape really.

[differentID]

threatened with it once and that was for outrageous cheek to a neighbour when I was 7 I think. 7 or 8 anyway.

My parents rarely had to smack either of us and when we were it was always for something well deserved, like taking soemthing we did not own or direct disobedience and once for fighting on a very stressful day.

[flatcapandpearls]

I dont think chidren ever deserve to be smacked. I smacked my dd once in very desperate circumstances and have always regretted it.

[differentID]

I think I was lucky enough to be told by my parents why I was smacked. I think I probably learned my lesson far faster because of the physical association than if my parents had said no dear don't do that or that's not nice. I will admit I am one of those people who need a physical incentive sometimes.

Once I had been smacked and told what my offence was, that was it. We didn't drag it up again, we didn't need to. All my parents then had to do when we showed signs of repeating the behaviour was ask "What happened last time?" and that was it. We would usually desist.

[JollyPirate]

Hmm! Won't post my experiences here but sufficient to say I was smacked and could not ever imagine inflicting that on my DS. Never.

[ditavonbees]

I was often threatened with the slipper, but very rarely ever got it.

[insertwittynicknameHERE]

Not the slipper, but we got the belt born in 79.

Only very occasionally and when we had been particularly naughty/bad. I still remember to this day that my dad had a thick leather belt that had his name embossed on it. Once when my brother and I had been naughty we got the belt and we had bruises on our backsides and legs in the shape of my dads name.

I only remember getting the belt 2 or 3 times though.

[insertwittynicknameHERE]

Have to say that is the main reason that I hate violence of any sort to discipline DC, and can honestly say that I will never hit/smack my DC ever.

I will shout and do shout, but never hit.

[UndertheBoredwalk]

I was smacked a few times when mum lost her temper, was never a calculated punishment though, she always claimed that she never smacked her kids Was mostly just a hand on the backside or legs, although she did once wallop me across my arms with a hairbrush and I ended up with loads of tiny scabs on my arm - she thought it was funny.
My dad never even raised his voice to us though, was V laid back, in fact I don't think he was ever even aware that she'd hit us, she definitely never did it in front of him.
I was born '81.

[GentleOtter]

We got hit with the slipper, hairbrush or a hunting belt which held cartridges. If we had been 'truly evil' then we got the buckle end. I reckon that even in the 60's it was a sadistic hellish practice and cruel beyond words to a five year old.

I would never hit my own children.

[suzybsue]

So sad to hear your tales of the belt