Archived Adults Throwing Temper-Tantrums Could Be Suffering From Disorder (newyork.cbslocal.com)
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Archived Adults Throwing Temper-Tantrums Could Be Suffering From Disorder (newyork.cbslocal.com)
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[–] Doomking_Grimlock 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I know exactly what you mean. I learned from an early age that if dad said: "If you don't behave yourself, I will take you to the truck" that he meant if I didn't shut my mouth and do as I was told, I was getting a spanking. Dad always swore he would never use anything harder than his bare hand on me or my brother, and he held to it. Mom was the one who threatened to use rulers and switches. Never dad.
[–] MetalAegis ago (edited ago)
Bare hand? I've gotten the belt on the bare ass about two dozen separate occasions, with about 5-10 strikes per whoopin'; now that I'm a functioning adult member of society I can say with ease that all incidents were justified.
EDIT: Just to clarify I was out of fucking control, age 12 I had under my belt;
Arson
Breaking & Entering
Theft under $5000
Possession of a deadly weapon
Various forms of criminal mischief and vandalism.
And it only got worse as I went through my teens, I smartened up at around 20, my father never gave up on me and now that I'm 29, I have a decent house / mortgage, nice new truck, good paying job with pension and benefits and a healthy relationship with my old man.
Though it's true that after I'd get a whooping I'd just try harder not to get caught next time, so it's hard to say if it worked as a punishment, but I do know one thing, grounding didn't work and if they(my parents) had done nothing I'd likely be in jail right now.
[–] Doomking_Grimlock ago
I wasn't a bad kid. Little unruly, but I never had any desire to hurt people or destroy things that didn't have it coming. Plus, my dad was a blacksmith, it was his hobby. He'd been doing it for years by the time I was born. Working an anvil and forge will give you powerful arms and big, strong hands, but also a surprising degree of control. He never spanked any harder than he had to to get the point across. I think I remember him mentioning that his dad had always used switches, belts, and paddles, and didn't have much in the way of self control when it came to punishment. I can understand dad's reasoning, and once I grew past the point of needing spankings, I never really grudged him for it.