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Did you ever get the slipper at home?

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austinsmam · 26/04/2009 16:29

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?

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PinkTulips · 06/09/2009 12:44

born 1984 btw

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austinsmam · 09/09/2009 21:03

Blimey Pink everyhing but the kitchen sink

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emmx · 09/09/2009 23:33

My parents had two levels of punishment - for just being normal naughty we got the wooden spoon and for being "really naughty" there was the plastic spoon. My dad also once smacked my sister on the back of her leg so hard he left a complete handprint there. I was born in '73 and my sister was born in 1976. Sounds like this was pretty common for that time - I don't think I've been particularly scarred by this - worse was the mind game/emotional stress my mum in particular used to put me under. I would get the blame for everything even when my little sis was to blame, she once told me I had hate in my eyes the day she brought my sister home from hospital (how old was I to be able to express hate? 18 months....), another time when I was 7 she put me out of the car onto the side of the road and drove off and left me (obviously she came back, but left me there a good 10 minutes so for that time I thought she'd abandoned me), plus other horrid things too numerous to mention. I've tried to bring these things up with her since becoming an adult but her standard response is either "no I didn't" or "I don't remember that happening".

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junglist1 · 10/09/2009 08:29

I used to get slapped round the face by my dad. What really pisses me off is my mum never tried to stop him, she wasn't in the room most of the time, but she knew. Just because he was breadwinner. That's quite sick IMO and I don't really respect her TBH

Divvy · 10/09/2009 08:42

I used to get smacked on the bum, over the knee on a bare bottom. We used to have to sit there through dinner, then after dinner it happened.

She would tell Dad that we had naughty when he came home from work, then we ate dinner, then...

I ALWAYS eat my food cold now, and it wasnt until a few years ago that I realised why I did it

admylin · 10/09/2009 08:46

I also had a chalk throwing teacher at secondary and we got the ruler over our hand at primary school if we made a single noise in assembally. The good old days eh...imagine if any teacher even touches your dc nowadays what trouble they'd be in.

candyfluff · 10/09/2009 20:13

my mum was the disiplinarian in our house,she had these slippers that had a concrete sloes on them and when we had been naughty she would give chase shouting you'd better run and if we didnt go fast enough we would get a slipper around the backs of the legs. or an hand and then between sobs me and my sister would compare hand prints .
did us no harm at all ,we were never in trouble as teenagers

suzybsue · 10/09/2009 20:32

My Mum was the main disciplinarian in our house. Dad was the soft touch

Hulababy · 10/09/2009 20:36

I was born in 73. No slipper or belt used in our house, on any of us. My parents rarely (if ever?) hit at all and would never have used anything to actually hit us with.

So, no changing times regarding punishment in my family.

Hulababy · 10/09/2009 20:39

Ooops just realised this is an old thread and I had already posted back in April!!!

ciforjif · 10/09/2009 21:47

My Mum & Dad used to have a wooden stick in iur living room-when you went in it was the first thing you saw. I had several beatings with it which used to leave terrible marks-not noticed or commented by anyone at school.
My Mum once rubbed my face in my dinner when I tried to stick up for my brother over something. I shall never forget the shock or disgust of it. My dad used to like a drink and several times after a bender he used to pick a fight with my younger brother. Again I would stick up for my brother and then he would turn on me and beat me up. I have school photos of me with bruises down the side of my face.

They are now the best Grandparents ever and my DC's think the world of both of them but if they EVER did anything to either of my children-that would be it, they would never see them again. OR ME.

ciforjif · 10/09/2009 22:03

I was born in '68 btw.

Beauregard · 10/09/2009 22:10

Sometimes we got a good slap with the wooden spoon and there was always the threat of the black hand( a solid wooden ashtray)
Those were the days

suzybsue · 11/09/2009 16:25

Seems the wooden spoon were very common

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austinsmam · 12/09/2009 11:56

Pelvic the black hand

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bodeniites · 12/09/2009 12:13

chased into the toilet with the slipper by my mum also got a slap across the face on one very bad occasion my dad never hit me and i dont blame my mother either i was a cheeky so and so when i was young and i had 4 older bothers must have been a nightmare at times

tots2ten · 12/09/2009 12:34

my mum hit us with a slipper, then would tell my dad when he got home from work what we had done, so we would get hit with a belt off him.

My dad threw a remote control at my brothers face when he was about 5 (he had a huge bruise) the school never said anything though.

suzybsue · 12/09/2009 17:23

tots that soumded pretty unfair. It was Mum who would wallop us.

tots2ten · 12/09/2009 20:29

suzy it wasnt really fair, if we played up when we would go out for the day, we would have a belt off my dad when we got home, along with a full recount of why we were being hit.

I also remember being naughty, (well being silly by sliding down the stairs inside a sleeping bag) and my mother walking out of the door and getting in the car and driving off, all because she had had enough of us messing about.

I remember the belting stopping when I got to comprehensive school and we had a talk off someone from the NSPCC and I went home and told my dad that it was abuse and if he hit us again I would tell the school nurse. Although my sister doesnt remember being hit at all, but she was and still is daddys little princess kiss ass

suzybsue · 12/09/2009 21:13

tots If we played up when we were out for the day. Like you we got a full recount of why we were getting punished. Never the belt though either the slipper or wooden spoon.
I cant recall NSPCC at school when i was there.

tots2ten · 12/09/2009 22:17

I think the NSPCC talk was after we raised money for them, and they came into talk to us about where the money would be going and what they do.

LadyOfTheFlowers · 12/09/2009 22:21

We would get the slipper, wooden spoon or spatula and on one occaision, I got the back of a hair brush - that really hurt!!

suzybsue · 13/09/2009 08:40

Were you all born in 60s/70s?

oopsacoconut · 13/09/2009 08:49

We got the belt or leather flip flop (which wrapped its way right around your butt) from my mum and stepdad. I was on bare bottom bent over. At school we got the cane on our hands although out RE teacher had a leather strap he used. Boys were caned on the bum. It was always done infront of the whole class and for any reason e.g. talking in class, forgetting books in locker, not finishing work in time.

I was born in 1975 and went to a South African private school.

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