Cutting a switch.

When your father told you to go out back and cut a switch, what was worse?

Walking outside with a knife looking for a proper branch to cut and skin in anticipation of the whup'n you were going to get?

or

The whup'n?

Discuss

Originally posted by Phlabibit
When your father told you to go out back and cut a switch, what was worse?

Walking outside with a knife looking for a proper branch to cut and skin in anticipation of the whup'n you were going to get?

or

The whup'n?

Discuss

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Discuss what?

sadism
child abuse
stockholm syndrome

Originally posted by Phlabibit
When your father told you to go out back and cut a switch, what was worse?

Walking outside with a knife looking for a proper branch to cut and skin in anticipation of the whup'n you were going to get?

or

The whup'n?

Discuss

Originally posted by Phlabibit
No, the 1850's.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
When your father told you to go out back and cut a switch, what was worse?

Walking outside with a knife looking for a proper branch to cut and skin in anticipation of the whup'n you were going to get?

or

The whup'n?

Discuss

Originally posted by Ice Cold
Where's GB when we need history? 🙂

Originally posted by Ice Cold
Where's GB when we need history? 🙂

Originally posted by Phlabibit
Red Night was good also. He could tell you about a baseball game from 1922 like he was there and it was yesterday.

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I read what a lot of you were saying about smacking kids and how it's okay to do it once and a while and "not so hard" (that's a laugh). And then I read about Crowley being all proud that his Dad hit him once and a while. I nearly threw up in my mouth.

My Dad used to discipline me a lot when I was young. I didn't get the switch, or the belt, or the paddle. I either got a swift kick in the ass or a good ol' hard spanking. He didn't hit repeatedly, just once, but I would always be in tears. Once my sister was crying somewhere in another room and woke my Dad up, assuming I did something wrong he just walked over to me and gave me a stiff one across the ass. He wasn't abusive. This didn't happen all the time but when I was bad it was rare that I'd get anything else other than a smack.

You know what I learned from all that discipline?

That my Dad wasn't patient enough to deal with his children in a civilised or even caring way. He only did what his Mom used to do to him when he was a kid. He thought it was normal. It's a shortcut to get what you want. Intimidate the child and it will listen.

To this day my Dad is still impatient, has a terrible temper and responds emotionally when challenged. I think had he not just always reared back and clocked us at a moment's notice and had actually taken the time to talk to his children, it would have made HIM a better person.

Think about that.

And Phlabs, is physical abuse easier for you to swallow than sexual abuse?

Originally posted by darvlay
I read what a lot of you were saying about smacking kids and how it's okay to do it once and a while and "not so hard" (that's a laugh). And then I read about Crowley being all proud that his Dad hit him once and a while. I nearly threw up in my mouth.

My Dad used to discipline me a lot when I was young. I didn't get the switch, or the belt, or the pad ...[text shortened]... o his children, it would have made HIM a better person.

Think about that.

Originally posted by darvlay
And Phlabs, is physical abuse easier for you to swallow than sexual abuse?

Originally posted by Phlabibit
How can you say your dad wasn't abusive if he was whacking you about?

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
When your father told you to go out back and cut a switch, what was worse?

Walking outside with a knife looking for a proper branch to cut and skin in anticipation of the whup'n you were going to get?

or

The whup'n?

Discuss