Ah, nostalgia.

Folmz · 1 month

As a child of the 80s, I was beaten with a studded belt. Good times.

drajax · 1 month

Go cut me a switch!

TheLastBoyScout · 1 month

Yes, i was one of the poor kids...

I too had the flip flop sail boat, spoony the talking spoon, and a leather belt I was led to believe was a flat snake.

SoHurDurLulz · 1 month

Coat hanger anyone?

TX_TOAST · 1 month

Never a flip flop. But the spoon and belt... Whew!

brumbrum21 · 1 month

to this day, the smell of whiskey makes me flinch

bisp247 · 1 month

I used to get hot sauce in my mouth when I was little, I got it so many times that now I love hot sauce. Your move Mom

internet_earplugs · 1 month

I was exclusively paddled, by my mother, with a wooden spoon as a child. It was old, worn and had a crack running down the left side. I hated that spoon. Fast forward 8-9 years, I was helping my Mom cook play dough for her preschool class. I was stirring the green dough with the very same spoon that used to leave my butt bright red. As I lifted the dough with the spoon, I heard a crack like the sound of spaghetti noodles being broken. I looked down, the end of the spoon submerged in the dough, the broken handle in my hand, the spoon was dead. The wooden spoon was dead.

To this day I maintain the spoon died of old age and overuse but my mother does not believe me. She insists I broke the spoon on purpose out of spite. She is welcome to believe what she wants to believe, but all I know is: on that day I beat the spoon, the spoon did NOT beat me.

Null_Reference_ · 1 month

You forgot the hotwheels track.

Taodyn · 1 month

Who the hell beats their child with a flip flop? If you're going to do it, do it right.

Kridder25 · 1 month

Someone should add a flyswatter to this one.

InternetsSpokesman · 1 month

My mom tells this story of how I stole the spoon from her and she then realized I was bigger than her. She then started taking me to church MULTIPLE times a week... I wish I never stole that spoon

Rushm00re · 1 month

Warning: The following comments will be very sad and depressing, and a little funny.

OrigamiTrail · 1 month

Honestly, who throws a shoe

Congzilla · 1 month

I got the wood spoon, and my childhood was still awesome.

etrebug · 1 month

When i was 9 i skipped school and decided to ride a bus throughout the city (which is a big city). When i went home, my mom was desperate, and she sent me to the shower. I was there, all nakedy, happy because i thought nothing would happen when suddenly she grabs the hose from the shower and then slaps me in the back with the fucking hose.

RidiculousIncarnate · 1 month

Big family, 6 kids and Italian.

We knew the wooden spoon very well but it was never overused. Only when we deserved it and every one of us kids grew up understanding proper punishment and why it was administered.

So, while being punished sucked, our childhood was pretty awesome and not at all marred by a good swatting when we were being little shits.

flooid · 1 month

Throw in a brush and I'm there!

rawdikrik · 1 month

If you were hispanic, the sandal was wooden... But the idea is the same.

JaySwell · 1 month

Being of hispanic decent, the very sight of a flip-flop (aka chancleta) strikes fear into my heart...

ThatSpuds · 1 month

I kinda shuddered.

When I was a kid, and you got in trouble... (which could have been for anything with my mother) -- you got a choice... 10 lashes with the cord from the iron (which hurt like a motherfucker) or she would hit you with that wooden spoon until it broke.

Talk about a goddamn choice.

ragemaker2012 · 1 month

my ass remembers the belt and the spoon, but what the fuck is with the flip flop

fate3 · 1 month

apparently the flip flop was not for white children

puzzleia · 1 month

Did anyone notice the link name thing to this? Best one yet.

Ka1ser · 1 month

Ah yeah I remember them: my mom used the item in the middle to cook and my dad wore the thing on the right. And because we are German, we all constantly wear flipflops while wearing socks

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Rushm00re · 1 month

Going to the beach, cooking with my mom, Quailman from Doug... Ah childhood!

JWL1092 · 1 month

oh god no..... not the wooden spoon!

lannielan · 1 month

Being from an Asian family, I used to get beat with a bunch of chopsticks. I still get made fun of from my non-Asian friends.

Sergeant_Walrus · 1 month

Only ever got hit with the belt once. After that Dad only had to reach for it and you stopped whatever the fuck you were doing.

klahaya · 1 month

Chanclas... the horror of my childhood.

intoon · 1 month

That spoon is missing some holes.... -My Ass.

L0stInthevoid · 1 month

Oooo, the wooden spoon.. How you broke over my ass.. Checks of steel right here ladys!

invisibleman4884 · 1 month

yup, yup, and yup. I regret nothing.

apocal7964 · 1 month

some kids need those my mom told me of how she was at the store and saw a 7 or 8 year of saying very loudly to his mom "Fck You, You Fcking C*nt I want this Cereal If you touch me I will call 911 on You" the mother just looked sad and put the cereal in the cart and kept going.

captainblammo · 1 month

I got the wooden spoon all the time and I had an awesome childhood. Eat that internets.

Basstissimo · 1 month

My grandfather would either use a belt or if he didn't have one he would just hit the shit out of them.

My dad told me a story about him and his brothers climbing around on their front porch. My dad tripped off the porch and landed on his face, so his face was red and there were tears in his eyes. At this time, my grandpa comes out, wearing his overalls (so he didn't have a belt I guess?).

"Which one of you did this to him?" my grandpa asks. Everybody runs but my dad's eldest brother, so he said it was an accident; but my grandpa cut him off there and hopped down off the porch then punched him in the face.

"AIN'T SO NICE WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU, HUH?!" He had my dad fetch his belt for him so he could belt him too.

When my dad told me that story for the first time, his eyes teared up. This is a man that's been poisoned by insurgents, has chemical burns on his back and is numbed to violence from being shelled by mortars every day in the Gulf War.

CatchThisDrift · 1 month

Never a flip flop; it was always my own shoe, and I always felt like I had the most solidly soled shoes in the world. And, of course, the wooden spoon. But if the wooden spoon was not available, a plastic spatula was also an option.

Irishman_reddit · 1 month

My mom had to upgrade to plastic after too many broke on my ass and don't forget the shoes or cleats.

Dat_Wizard · 1 month

My mom called her wooden spoon "Mr. Manners"

el3kt2ik · 1 month

Ah the "love paddle".

Fallingdamage · 1 month

If you remember these, your childhood was probably not that awesome.

...and you also probably didnt throw a tantrum when your parents wouldn't buy you an iPhone.

MathewMurdock · 1 month

Don't forget about the bare hand. That shit hurts. Especially when your dad was a boxer.

StarChow · 1 month

If you were Asian...

tracklete95 · 1 month

God forbid if you tried grabbing the belt

SaffaLad · 1 month

Grew up in South Africa in the '80s. Mom never hit me, but used the "when your dad gets home..." trick. Then after dinner I'd have to go wait in the "buitekamer" (outside store room) and my dad would belt my arse where my mom couldn't hear it. This probably started when I was about 7 or 8 (just one or two light licks), and continued right up to me leaving for university when I was 18, by which time it would be 20 or 30 on the bare (when I was about 15 I tried wearing about 5 sets of underwear and lied about it when asked, a lie I regretted that night (spanking of my LIFE) and for 3 years after due to the newly-instituted bare-arse rule). Didn't happen often, but it sure kept me in line!

"Lyfstraf" (corporal punishment) was just part of life for boys back then and we all got it, and never thought to complain. I think it only became illegal in schools in the late '90s! So, in my youth, I was spanked with

belt (by my dad)
wooden paddle (by various teachers)
wooden paddle with holes in (by one or two teachers including the rugby coach whom I will run over with my car if I encounter him today -that man was a sadist)
a cane by two teachers, but the traditional "six of the best" was reserved for repeat offenders and I never experienced that although it looked absolutely hellish. Boys where always very proud of their "cuts" ;-)
a cricket bat as part of an initiation ceremony at university that left me so bruised I had to sleep on my stomach for a week and couldn't go to class.
regular beatings with shoes and flip-flops in "koshuis" (a dorm) at university in what was called a "tekkiepartie" (sneaker party) or "bakoond" (baking oven) which was basically all the seniors lined up holding flip-flops or sneakers (some with a bar of soap stuffed in front) and then you had to crawl on your hands and knees under their legs while the swats rain down. It was a favourite to punish first years for wrongdoing or just generally being "slapgat" (no direct translation but in context meant not being a team player). If you were lucky you could keep your clothes on, but more often than not we were instructed to take our shirts off (they got in the way) lower our trousers and pants (SA used to be British colony - trousers!) to our knees which I used to think was to make it more painful and difficult to crawl fast. When I became a senior I learned the real reason was to keep an eye on how bruised the poor guys were getting so you could ease off on anyone who looked too raw. It was brutal but there was an honour code and everyone got the same - if a senior beat a first year too bad he could suffer a disciplinary from the "HK" (house committee) which often included the indignity of having to take part in the next tekkieparty like a first-year, which was the ultimate humiliation for a senior.

[deleted] · 1 month

I got the flyswatter or hairbrush on bare cheeks.

DIRTY_CRAPPED_BRIEFS · 1 month

belt ;(

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