A Thread On Physical Discipline

[aurelemsrealm]

My sister and I got plenty of spankings for misbehaving as children. I don't like pain and discomfort, so it was an effective deterrent for me.

My sister was the openly stubborn and rebellious child. She usually got into more trouble than I did because she was willful. I was the quiet and sneaky child. I got into my share of trouble, too, but usually for being a smartass or picking on my sister when she'd pester me for attention.

Grounding was only effective if I was confined to my room and everything of value to me was removed because I was one of those children who could easily entertain himself. Sometimes I'd forget I was even being punished after a while. Of course, that was usually enough to stop the behavior that my parents wanted stopped because I was occupied doing something else, and so they let it go at that point.

My parents' solution to cleaning our rooms was simple. They only told us once or twice to clean our rooms. After that, they made us wait outside our bedroom doors and watch as they went through with a garbage bag. Anything that went in the garbage bag would disappear for good. That was more effective on me than my sister. It only took a few times for me to get the point and keep my room sufficiently clean without being told. After that, the only thing I got in trouble for was laughing at my sister when she got in trouble for not keeping her room clean.

[blas87]

I was never allowed to have a messy room. My brother was and still is allowed to have a biohazard for a bedroom.

Occasionally, mom and dad put on a show when I'm around for my morning visits after work, such as saying "If he doesn't clean that room by tomorrow, we're taking garbage bags up there while he's out of state for work!" or stupid threats like that. They never do.

The only time they ever intervene is when he's taken so many plates and cups and bowls to his room that there's hardly any left to be used otherwise.

I used to use his computer a lot during laundry days. He had yogurt containers, plates with syrup and pancake crumbs, all kinds of sticky gross shit piled up around the computer, and they never forced him to clean it.

Meanwhile, I remember many incidents growing up with the bedroom thing....the last one was when I ended up grounded for a month or better when the cat ran and hid under my bed, and my parents saw how messy it was under there. I was not allowed to go to bed until it was all clean, and I was grounded until they decided I had learned a lesson in keeping a clean room, if I wasn't allowed to do anything, I'd appreciate things more.

Yeah. I keep telling stories like these, and I beg anyone anywhere to ever question me as to why I moved out at 19, or ever dare say it was a bad decision to move out.

[Andara Bledin]

You should totally dump a colony of ants up there sometime... >_>

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[Mytical]

I never really had to be disciplined as a child. If I did anything, my parents never found out about it. Up until like 13 I was the independent/trustworthy/dependable child. Never got in trouble, read a lot, the only thing I did they didn't like was get low grades (homework bored me to tears..but normally I made up for it in tests). I've been spanked, didn't really hurt me. Heck I was more worried when they used my middle name then when they broke out the belt.

[blas87]

Andara, it totally amazes me that there was never an insect problem at my parents' house, save for spiders in the basement and ants that tried to get in from under the back porch. The only real problem they ever had was those damn Asian beetles that we get every year.

I live right by a park, and I have to spray the hell out of this place once in the spring/summer, and once again before winter starts, unless I want problems.

That reminds me, I need some Bug Stop and better get a spraying before it starts to stay warm out.