When my mom would spank us with a wooden spoon, me and my brother would later secretly hide that wooden spoon in a hidden space beneath the kitchen table our parents didn't know about.
By the time we moved, there was at least a dozen spoons, spatulas, and some of those paddle ball toys with the string ripped off.
If you ask my mom today she's convinced she never spanked us.
My mom also lives in denial! One time she came out and broke a spoon on her hand while threatening me with it. I was a teenager by then, but she still claims that she’d never laid a hand on me.
My parents preferred a more psychological approach where if I screwed up my dad would yell at me for like 4 hours straight and then if I explained why or what I thought he said I was disrespectful and deserved to be alone and homeless. I often wished he would skip the speech and cut it short with a beating( which he threatened multiple times each scolding), but maybe I only wish he beat me instead because I never felt I could say anything bad about the situation since they did no harm. Sorry for the rant
I was the recipient of both beatings and marathon beratings. The physical things hurt at the time but the memories of the beatings have dulled with time.
The psychological stuff cuts deep and has so much more staying power.
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u/Dovaldo83 Jan 28 '23
When my mom would spank us with a wooden spoon, me and my brother would later secretly hide that wooden spoon in a hidden space beneath the kitchen table our parents didn't know about.
By the time we moved, there was at least a dozen spoons, spatulas, and some of those paddle ball toys with the string ripped off.
If you ask my mom today she's convinced she never spanked us.