Catturd: I was 5-years-old in 1969 …
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I love that story, except maybe the stick bit.
I dunno, even Katie says I deserved it though she sure didn't seem to mind the attention.
1969 the Dean had a huge wooden paddle with big 1in holes drilled in it, I know because it was a shop class project. Always pissed me off getting "swats" from something I had a hand in making!
hahah what a great story. Gives me an idea maybe we can get Hillary and he cohorts making rope at Gitmo
What a great thought! LOL!
That is super cool you married someone that was in 6th grade with you!
Perhaps she wanted to see you get paddled for her. It was a test and you passed!
She actually did witness that, LoL, too funny! And she still remembers it!
The Catholic school I went to in the early 60's, the principal, Sister Mary Justin, had a paddle kind of like that, only it had lots of smaller holes (and was 1" thick oak)! We would have to bend over, hold our ankles and, SWAT!!!!! Man, did that sting!
Oh man, exactly! Our dean had two different tile squares from all the others right outside his office in hallway, put your feet on each square, bend over and grab your ankles! (Must have some universal training? I don't know but you are not the first that describes it perfectly, just the way it happened)
And Yes, "the STING!" OH MY GOODNESS! LoL! I remember dancing in the hallway rubbing my butt try to ease the pain!
Of course it was done in the hallway corridor so the sounds of the swats would echo through all the classrooms. They didn't let other students witness it but atleast half the entire school damn sure heard it!
I had a social studies teacher that would stop, count out the swats by rapping his wooden pointer-wand on the chalkboard and then pontificate over the severity of the crime according to how many swats we all heard!
Ahh, the joyous memories of youth!
Thanks for smiles!
Last week on the Internet cover stories; there was one about the most dangerous things we used to do in the 1960's. I couldn't believe it when one of those things was getting your butt whipped. I shook my head thinking; this is what is wrong with society now. This is why we have our jails and prisons filled up. This is why we have smart mouthed kids. I got my butt whipped plenty of times. I think I turned out to be a good person. But these Liberals seem to think that whipping our kids is torture and so now you can't. I say, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." The Liberals wouldn't know what that means.
All the kids in my neighborhood in FL ran behind the mosquito fogger trucks in the 1960's. They burned oil to create smoke that was mixed with the pesticide. It was probably DDT! Our parents were so clueless regarding such things. Later, the truck quit using the oil smoke and just sprayed a mist of pesticide, and us stupid kids STILL ran behind it! (and the truck driver would yell at us to get away; at least he was smart enough to know how stupid it was, unlike our parents :) )
Some of us kids followed the gang. We had no idea we were doing wrong. We did not have any trucks fogging mosquitoes in my town, but if we had, we would have done the same thing.
In south Louisiana, our parents had hand pump mosquito sprayers that they'd spray throughout the house, including bedrooms while we were sleeping in them!
Agree 100%!
I would never condone child abuse but there's a huge difference between "discipline" and abuse.
I never got a whoopin I didn't deserve, including the second one when I got home and had to tell my pop what I did!
Some adults don't know where the line is between discipline and abuse, even when they're looking in from the outside, because their own experience colors their opinion. They'll see a 10 year old get punched in the gut, and think there's nothing wrong because their father punched them in the gut too. No, that's some very bad physical abuse. My parents treated me and my sister like shit. I know what abuse is.
He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly
Amen. I deserved all mine too. I always hated it when my Mom would say, "Just wait til your Daddy gets home." Whew! You knew you were going to get it. But it taught us never to go back and do that same thing. It taught us 'common sense' which is what the LEFT do NOT have. And yes, there is a difference between a beating and an old fashioned disciplined butt whipping. Amen.
See, I think the Liberals who started the whole “you can’t spank your child nonsense” knew exactly what would happen if you let young, impressionable kids be “free spirits”. Liberals who grew up with this brainwashing might not understand how they’re really harming their child by not disciplining them, but the ones who started us down the idiotic path of child psychology knew, IMHO. I got plenty of spankings growing up, I deserved every single one of them, and there were some spankings that I didn’t get but I should have.
Amen. I know I needed more than I got. But in the end, I think I'm okay. I'm not a murderer or a thief or a liar. I go to church and believe in God and his Word. I tried to raise my kids that way and to respect others; especially old people whom I taught them to visit and remember on holidays and such. So I believe that scripture of "spare the rod" and what will happen if you don't use it. Amen.
Good kids respond to non-violent forms of discipline, and violence just makes bad kids (psychopathic, personality disordered) worse. What kids usually had more of in the 1960s was parental and family attention and community. Mom was likely home with them, the neighbors' mothers were home, too, so kids could easily play together outside or at each other's homes, families tended to live near each other and had regular get-togethers with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, and everyone wasn't always on the computer or their phone.
That's your opinion. I go along with what the bible says. I do not consider getting your behind whipped as violent; what I consider violent is when it is BEATEN. That's what took punishment from the hands of the parents. I do agree with you on Mom being home and the neighbors mothers plus playing with neighbor friends. I agree with all of the cousins and aunt and such and not having computers or phones to play on. It is a mixture of many things, but a spanking on occasion for something severe that a child did wrong, I disagree. God bless.
Dad? Is that you?
But I up dooted you twice Dad!
VH were lovers, not fighters.
And the he'll!