Did you ever get a 'switching' as a kid?

[freedomcash11]

yes, don't want to talk about it.

[heypeg]

My Dad didn't have to spank us, we knew better than to get out of line, it only took a look.

[melissaotto1982]

Oh we got the belt in my family and I think we all turned out good. To bad true abuse happens though!

[mjoseph1]

lol on more than several occasions

[inertia4]

I was a bad kid. Believe me. I was hit with the famous belt. When I was growing up that was what they did. The belt stopped when I started to fight back. And all the punishment stopped as well. Like I said, I was a bad kid and a spiteful one.

[mgint]

yes probably did something told not to do.Kids today need discipline but you can't take it too far.

[nannycoe1]

Yes I got switched, but I would not call it abuse.

[jkhanson]

My siblings and I got spanked.   Sometimes it was just a swat on the behind with their open hand; sometimes with a spatula or wire end of a fly swatter.

Pretty much just one swat and that was it.

I think a spanking---a swat on the behind--- is abuse. 

Unfortunately, some adults don't stop at one swat or control their anger or strength and a "spanking" becomes a beating.

[lywb2168]

I never did, my mother the most she ever did was slap once for lying really bad about something, but if we behave badly, she would punish us, by grounding us with not going outside or to the movies or to a friend's house, she knew that grounding would hurt more, a beating of any kind happened at the moment and then will go away, but grounding us for a week or two would be something that we will feel every single one of those days.

I have never done anything like that to my girls, some spanking when they were little, and know when they really do something bad, which is almost never, I give them a look with that look they know better than to try me.  My hubby would probably treated to use the belt and they both just run to their rooms but we have never used the belt either.  My hubby usually never does the yelling or punishment it is me, with the exception of 1 time a few years back when someone egg our house and he discover why it was done, he sat me oldest down and had the youngest listen to him, and later during the day when they talked to me the youngest told me "holly cow, I have never since daddy that mad it was really something scary" and my oldest told me "I would have preferred a whooping than go thru that, never again", and that was that.

[BMaston12]

I got a switching several times. I don't feel like I was abused. Some kids mind their parents better than others. I was a bit on the incorrigible side. My mother would make me pick out my own switch and it took me a couple times to realize that the smaller the switch, the more sting it had.

I got the belt more than a switch.I do remember a switch, though. I don't think being disciplined with a switch , belt, or paddle is a bad thing. All children need discipline. I can't say I did not deserve some of my spankings. But I do think that using your hands sends the wrong message. No one wants their kids to cower down from the raised hand, just like an animal.
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[quietpal]

I never got spanked with a switch, but I did get spanked with a hand or every now and then a belt. It wasn't often because I was usually to scared to try to get in trouble. Most of the time it had to do with my mouth more so than other behavior. I never was abused and my parents have always shown me love.  I think I remember my dad tapping me twice in my whole life, and I say tapping because they were not hits at all. Most of the spankings were done by my mother.

[bowrunner]

I didn't usually get a switch but I had to lay across my dad's legs and I got a real beating on my butt with his hand.

[Skyisbluetoday]

I did get switched a time or two, but I think it was for the better

[LenoraMinogue]

I never got a switching as a child, but I did get spankings sometimes, or a light hit on the hand when I was about to touch something I shouldn't. They did that sparingly though. Often they would try to talk to me about what I did wrong, and give me a chance to make it right.

[yaayme]

Yes, only 2 or 3 times. Did I deserve it? No, actually I didn't...The times that I did get "switched" a younger sibling lied on me, so...Me and my siblings were good kids though. We hardly ever got spanked/hit/disciplined.