What do you think was your parents most faviourite way of punishing you lol.

Taking away my computer time >.>

I haven't been punished for something in like 7 years XD

the used to take the cables for my SNES, or N64. That was hard. Lol.


I think the worst thing they could do now is take away the keys to my car.

A swift smack to the top of my head.

It didn't hurt much.
Either way, I trembled.

Trembled with a cold fear.

I'm in the same category. Good thing I know how to get internet any way possible. They'd have to asplode my room to keep me from getting on the internet.

A lot and a LOT of yelling and constant bitching.. hell, use to scare the f**k out of me and I'd run outside for a few hours hiding in the woods. Now if they know I'm drinking they take hte keys from vehcivles.

Well i dont do anything bad so i've never been punished.

^^not even I believe that, I just never got caught :P

Lets see I got rulered, chairs thrown at me, books flying past me, got my hands whipped with a back scratcher, the occasional psychological yell, and many others. Favorite method for them now is to make me feel guilty (I see an evolution of physical pain to psychological pain going here now lol)

My Mom threatens to take away the internet. Yeahhhhh, but she never does because she uses it too.

My parents always enjoyed taking away my favorite toy, my favorite game or something among those lines when I was younger.

My parents have never punished me. Not that i havnt done anything wrong, they just dont care what i do xD.

taking away the internet. they KNOW it kills me.

Beatings. That's what I got when I was a kid. Or they would try. My dad wasn't all that bright. He'd tell us to go outside and find him a stick and we just wouldn't come back. Or they would tell us we were grounded for the entire summer. Which was pointless. They left to work at 6:00am and didn't come home until after 6:00pm, and on Saturdays they were at their friends place until three or four in the morning. So all we had to do was be home before they were.

Same here.

They take away my Computer~~

My mother uses psicological torture, she makes me feel bad, really bad.

Well when I disagreed with my father we used to fight.

Deazy doesnt get Punished :P

Heh, same here. Or at least they used to. Now they just use emotional blackmail to make me feel really bad.

They threaten to take away my computer. D:

My parents didn't need a "favorite" way of punishing me, because I so rarely got in trouble with them. When I was younger and I did, I got a good spanking, and *gasp* I didn't do bad things any more! That's why I hate it so much that everyone nowadays says spanking is child abuse. Part of why I have such a good sense of what's right and wrong is because of that!

Grounding never did much to me, because I didn't leave the house very often to begin with. XD I got a lot of threats of having my computer privileges taken away, but that almost never happened, because I'd be so bored I'd drive my parents nuts.

Got a beating and bitching for hours, when I say hour I say many hours. Lefted with some bruises. But it doesnt happen anymore.

I'm a good kid i really dont get ounished, but my older sister is BAD and she only gets grounded

Oh This....

....evil....

While I'm at a bad person (dispite my over use of 'Mhahaha' <--evil laugh)

I'm am punished by technological means:

1) They Hide my Memory Cards
(I torture my brother when he does this to retrieve them, little sh*te he is)

2) Hiding My PSP
3) Hiding my Joypads
4) a NEW weapon, Not letting me play WoW O_o "NOOOooooooo!"

I think I'm developing Withdrawl syptoms when not playing WoW but I'm not 100% certain....

I have NEVER EVER in all my 21 years have I ever been grounded. Why?
Because it has no effect on me.

Though one day my parents will punish me and the next day find the cars wheels missing XD.

or maybe.... the brakes... MHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

I'm just kidding....

or am I? :ph34r

I get grounded plus no tv or internet plus no video games or anything fun but it doesn't really affect me i'm like whatever bring it i'll take anything u dish out lol but i kno how to get out of trouble I usually do but i don't think before i do things so I get into trouble pretty much all the time but some times I do think but I just don't care if I get into trouble so....yea lol but i don't mean to it just happens lol some times my sister bugs me until i cus her out or slap her etc. etc. btw my sister is almost 21 and she bugs me still so annoying but it's what siblings do to each other lol

lol. i rarely got punished...since my parents won't acknowledge the existence of grounding. they find it unnecessary. if i really piss them off, they usually take to incredible psychologically damaging lectures and venomous words. or, if all else fails, get something hard to smack me with. or throw something. lol.

Now, lets have the imput from "The Other Side" on this matter.

As a parent, sometimes it is necessary to impose punishment when trying to teach something to your children.

I know I do need to act from time to time.

Most times words and lectures can work, but the young seems to try and test their limits, and sometimes those limits are sound and healthy ones. We all live within certain limits and we need to learn how to steer ourselves within them, or learn how to expand them using intelligence and not sheer force. When our sons and daughters learn the lesson well it is rewarding, but sometimes the limits are transgressed in a serious and not very good way, and when such happens, we need to assert ourselves. Actually punishment when due can help learn where the boundaries are and teach the young how to see the best path to a given situation. That also shows that we as parents do care for our children. By showing our worry and decisive action we demonstrate we care. Just letting our young ones do whatever they want shows lack of care. It is easier to let things go, but to really care we sometimes need to be restrictive or we need to dispense the right amount of punishement to show that something is not correct.

My own case, I never raised a hand to my children. My wife only 2 times actually slapped our son and daughter, and believe me, those two times (one each) were really necessary.

Oh, I did dispensed punishment, but I never neded to resort to phisical. Grounding? I did ground my son, and you know, he learned his lessons, not by abbiding to wathever we say, but by learning his boundaries and how to expand them in a wise, intellingent way. We are open for talk, but there are limits as I said before.

I am happy to say both our children are our friends and they trust us, and after the punishement, when it happens, they came to talk over what happend without anger (anger they show at the time of the punishment, but only at the time, later they understood.

By acting and noticing our children we show them we care. Just letting them run free without any real care we show lack of real attention, which is not good

I do not condone with senseless violence and groundings without reason. I just think that sometimes we need to take action.

An example. My son was giving problems at school with behavior and his grades were really degrading due that and his lack of discipline with Internet and guitar lessons. Between Internet, his guitar and friends he was not caring about school much. I talked with him about that, and he was not accepting the facts I already knew, even though we did had an agreement after the last Parents Meeting at school, when his grades were not good and I talked to him that he needed to improve his studies. He was not with a real problem with a given subject, but actually he was not studying at all, and he agreed to improve but did not really work upon that as I saw with the tests and the word about behavior at school.

Well, I gave him some options: Internet or Guitar. One of those would stop until his grades improved. And meanwhile I would check with the school about his behavior. Was it not to improve, he would quit guitar lessons altogether.

He had a month to organize himself until the next tests. He made his choice. He loves guitar and so he would carry on his lessons, stopping internet for the time we agreed. He did not liked it but he carried with it. It was his choice as he did wrong.

In the time alloted he improved his grades, did improve his behavior at school (I checked) and in the end, when he got the net back after his tests, he learned how to organize his time between school, friends, guitar and internet.

Point taken, he learned his lesson, and the medicine taken had his own hand on it, as he had a choice at the time of the necessary punishment.

Blind punishment never helps, but conscious one helps development.


Aww well...come the flames.


I know some may not agree with me, but I tell you, being a father or mother will tell you what it means to be "On The Other Side".


See you Minna san!

I know you're married but I didn't know you had kids.

I really need to start asking you more questions :D

Please do :D

I am always open for questions :)

Yeah same here. :D

Yeah same here. :D

My mom used to pinch my inner arm, twist her nails, and pull up.
My dad yelled at me and basically told me I couldn't ever play video games during the weekday.

That was when I was in 5th grade.
I'm a senior in HS now and I still listen to the "1st Commandment".
I think that's why I got into anime, loophole.