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[Observer]

Hard Ass!!!
Some may recall being clouted with a wooden spoon. Mothers favourite choice of punishment weapon.
Just so I wouldn't be hit with those, I took 3 of them out to the shed and put a slice on the underside near the head with a hacksaw blade.
She broke many a wooden spoon on my butt and kept cursing about breaking them all the time.
So I got the nickname Hard Ass.
To this day, she never knew why they kept breaking.
After a while, she then started with the flying slipper, which I managed to duck most of the time.

 

[Dennis]

Dennis R's Morning Joke. Do these stairs take you to the third floor? No, I am afraid you will have to walk.

 

[Leenie]

Hard Ass!!!
Some may recall being clouted with a wooden spoon. Mothers favourite choice of punishment weapon.
Just so I wouldn't be hit with those, I took 3 of them out to the shed and put a slice on the underside near the head with a hacksaw blade.
She broke many a wooden spoon on my butt and kept cursing about breaking them all the time.
So I got the nickname Hard Ass.
To this day, she never knew why they kept breaking.
After a while, she then started with the flying slipper, which I managed to duck most of the time.

A little bit of that medicine today would do wonders.

 

[RieTreesSilver]

I know of at least 2 houses where when the large Kitchen Cabinet/sideboard was finally moved after 40-50 years a treasure trove of missing wooden spoons was found

 

[Still Ebby]

Hard Ass!!!
Some may recall being clouted with a wooden spoon. Mothers favourite choice of punishment weapon.
Just so I wouldn't be hit with those, I took 3 of them out to the shed and put a slice on the underside near the head with a hacksaw blade.
She broke many a wooden spoon on my butt and kept cursing about breaking them all the time.
So I got the nickname Hard Ass.
To this day, she never knew why they kept breaking.
After a while, she then started with the flying slipper, which I managed to duck most of the time.

l used a wooden spoon on their bums but the children kept hiding it.The next tactic was ''wait till your dad gets home !''.
lf there was a fight between them they both got hit which soon stopped them doing it again but they were pretty good really.

 

[Observer]

l used a wooden spoon on their bums but the children kept hiding it.The next tactic was ''wait till your dad gets home !''.
lf there was a fight between them they both got hit which soon stopped them doing it again but they were pretty good really.

After the whopping's we may have gotten as kids, I for one can honestly say I probably needed it on occasion and in the end no real harm was done. It was all a part of discipline but too many do-gooders would say, "Oh no. You can't lift a hand against a child".
From what I have seen over the years, a lot of the do-gooders have had more troublesome children than those that gave a spanking now and again. Discipline in moderation is the key.
I never had to raise a hand on my kids. I had them bluffed. After all, as an adult, you have a lot more knowledge and wisdom than any child.

 

[Still Ebby]

Like to hear from members on how you were punished at school.
We were hit over the knuckles with a board rubber .

 

[Still Ebby]

After the whopping's we may have gotten as kids, I for one can honestly say I probably needed it on occasion and in the end no real harm was done. It was all a part of discipline but too many do-gooders would say, "Oh no. You can't lift a hand against a child".
From what I have seen over the years, a lot of the do-gooders have had more troublesome children than those that gave a spanking now and again. Discipline in moderation is the key.
I never had to raise a hand on my kids. I had them bluffed. After all, as an adult, you have a lot more knowledge and wisdom than any child.

How many children did you have? You don't have to give them a hard wack l think l did more threatening than hitting.
l got the leather belt on my bum for something l didn't even do.

 

[PattiB]

My parents didn’t ever use a wooden spoon, or other implements on us, & neither did I when I had my son. My mum nagged & threatened which in a way was worse, she’d still be reminding you several months later. I’ve always felt that hitting a child with some sort of implement is cruel, there are better ways to manage their behaviour. My son, & now my great nephews, learnt very quickly to not make Aunty Pat too annoyed, because they come off second best.
l did love this joke I screenshot it & sent it to my boy, another thing he missed out on.

 

[Mactavish]

In the 1950s I attended Parramatta High School. The physical education teacher was an old fellow named Nicholson who walked around all day with a cane in his hand - wound at one end with string for a better grip. When he considered you had something wrong, he would say: "What do ya want - up to the boss or justice a la Nicholson". You would opt for the latter, then "Bend over." Whack! Ow!

To him, every student was a "wretched child", as in the following scenario. For sport's afternoon I attended a nearby Olympic swimming pool. As I had a cold I brought a note from home asking to be excused. I went to the staff room to request exemption from sport and Nicho was also the Sports Master. I told him I had a cold and proffered the note. This is how the conversation went:
"Are ya spittin' blood and bitsa lung."
"No sir".
"You haven't gotta a cold. Get outta me sight, ya wretched child".
So I just walked to the station and caught the train home.

However the kids loved him. It was all a put on. He would make the simplest of tasks entertaining. To get four boys to move a large gymnasium mat, he used his cane as a pointer - "Here you, Sin, Sam, Sorrow, Sore Eyes, move that mat over here".

The uniform for work in the gymnasium was shorts only. We were all in the gym when three fat boys emerged from the dressing room wearing "Persil white" singlets. From the other end of the gym he roared: "Get those filthy singlets of ya skinny, Rickety bodies".

He would never get away with that these days.

 

[Lilibet]

Not a wooden spoon for mum, she had a belt from a Singer treadle sewing machine, the belt was doubled , ends offset with a loop at the other end which she put over her wrist, then she would aim for my legs and then pull it back which burned as well as stinging from the hit, I thought she was cruel but I tried to make sure I was careful to try and not annoy her again, it happened more times as I got blamed for things the other 4 did as I should have stopped them!!!!

 

[Leenie]

l used a wooden spoon on their bums but the children kept hiding it.The next tactic was ''wait till your dad gets home !''.
lf there was a fight between them they both got hit which soon stopped them doing it again but they were pretty good really.

When my grandies were little and they were naughty I would get the wooden spoon and whack the kitchen bench ,the noise was enough to make them behave until one day the spoon broke in half the kids thought it was hilarious, they have never let Me live it down ,it comes up in conversations at times .

 

[Still Ebby]

Not a wooden spoon for mum, she had a belt from a Singer treadle sewing machine, the belt was doubled , ends offset with a loop at the other end which she put over her wrist, then she would aim for my legs and then pull it back which burned as well as stinging from the hit, I thought she was cruel blut I tried to make sure I was careful to try and not annoy her again, it happened more times as I got blamed for things the other 4 did as I should have stopped them!!!!

 

[Leenie]

Like to hear from members on how you were punished at school.
We were hit over the knuckles with a board rubber .

We were hit over the knuckles with the side of a ruler, also he thumped us in the back of our shoulder , he was a cruel B and his son got worse.