Which spanking implement hurts the most? I must say the switch.?

Question

I have been hit with other implements, including the belt, but none seemed to have equaled the pain I experienced with the switch. I suppose it was because it broke the skin, and I often would bleed. I think back on those memories as being very traumatic. How can anyone hit a little child in that manner?

Answer 1

The worst spanking I ever got was with a belt on my bare butt but it was well deserved,I wasnt a little child either,I was around 12 and got caught playing near the railroad tracks with some friends and I sure as hell dont resent my father for his first reaction.I am a grown woman and mother now and although I may use spanking with my children I wont use implements or spank on the bare.

Answer 2

Spanking Implements

Answer 3

I do not think using a belt or switches from the tree are bad. My mom use to spank me with her hand, my grandmother spanked me with switches and belts, and my grandfather used a switches on me. I am still alive and well. Some kids need a good spanking these days to teach them from right and what is wrong. My stepfather has a son who is 7 years old in the 2nd grade and he lets him run all over the place. I asked why he did not spank him is because he is afraid that his ex wife is going to press child abuse charges against him. Spanking with implements are all right until they get out of hand.

Answer 4

At home I was smacked with open hand, slipper/shoe and a wooden yardstick, so cant comment on switch. The yardstick was used for more serious stuff and for repeated bad behaviour and hurt a whole lot more than open hand or a slipper.
Dad always gave the ones with the yardstick, but said that I'd never be smacked in anger and that all smacks from the yardstick would be on my bottom.
I copped some huge whacks from the yardstick, and dad had no worries giving me anywhere between 5 and 10 whacks as punishment. It used to really hurt, even as a teenager.

Answer 5

To answer your last question, it's just the way it was back then. I think my good memories from childhood far surpass any beatings I ever got. My mother did draw blood to the surface with switches on me. I didn't like the belt much either.
But by god, we learned didn't we? I remember when we had to go pick our own switches from the rosasharon bush at my grandma's house, because none of my cousins and I would tell on each other and we all got whipped by our parents simultanously! It's funny now...

When I think back to those days, I learned a lot more by the way of switches than by words. I wish I could apply the same humbling feelings to my daughter, that I gained then, minus the beatings with switches.

Times have changed so much and so have the children. I can't believe when I go to the grocery and I see a child defying their parents and the parents either ignore the child or end up buying he/she something to appease his/her demands. It makes me sick, that is when a child needs a good, old fashioned spanking not a reward! There are times when drastic measures need to be taken.
I have no doubt that spankings my daughter has received for lying to me and disobeying me will stay with her for awhile if not her lifetime. I never left a mark, scar, bruise or drew blood, but I know I left a mark in her memory and that was the point because just an explanation is not enough sometimes.

Answer 6

Well - you have to realize you aren't really talking about SPANKING you are talking about BEATING and you have to think about the mind set of adults.Now on another note - you have to realize that spanking though and beating are two different things - while they both are designed to cause harm, I think many parents still believe in spanking in some form. A slap or a smack from a mother to child when the child is doing something and words aren't able to convey their meanings seems to be justified. But the problem I think with spanking is that there is a FINE line between spanking and beating and some parents just don't know where this line is.

Hitting and causing pain has been acceptable at different times throughout the history of child rearing - some would say it is a representation of the pain of the real world and the kids have to learn it at some point. Some parents justify it because it's "the only way my kid will listen". I know my mom's personal favorite was "Spare the rod, spoil the child". (And she wonders why I'm pagan......)

Personally - I think BEATING a child is cruel. Beating an adult is cruel. Beating an animal is cruel. But people are capable of imaginably cruel actions at times and are often quick to justify their actions - Anyone see Roots? My name is Kunta - Kunta Kinte (sorry if I butchered the spelling - but you get my drift)

Now on which implement hurts the most? My mom was from the south and when we moved to Southern California in 1990 she put a peach tree in the yard and had us pick our switches... I have to agree - they are worse than the thinest of the leather dress belts.

I could go into a long rant here - actually write a paper, lol. But I will refrain. It's more complex I think though and not simply easy to say "parents should NEVER hit".

Answer 7

My mom used her hand, my dad, a wooden paddle. I spank my own kids but rarely and only for serious, life threatening kinds of things, and I only use my hand. I think the problem with children and parents today is that most parents are afraid to discipline because of constant worrying about being labeled as "Abusers" for spanking their child. There is a DIFFERENCE in Abuse and spanking. My hope for the next generation, seriously, is that these parents wake up and realize that you can't be your child's FRIEND, you have to be their PARENT. They have enough friends, or they will, depending on their ages. Kids need consistancy, and parents these days don't discipline. Not all mind you, but a lot of them don't.

Answer 8

I have been hit with a wooden spoon, a hairbrush, and lead-rope and a dog leash. The dog leash hurt the most, and left marks that were there for days afterwards. I don't know how so-called loving parents can mistreat their kids that way. I would never hit my son with some sort of implement. If some people think that kids cannot do without corporal punishment of some kind, they should only spank on the buttocks, with the palm of their hand. Anything else constitutes as child abuse and they should have their kids taken away from them.

Answer 9

Are you trying to inflict severe pain, or teach a lesson? I was spanked with a belt bare bottom and I didn't like it. It left welts on me. I've also been hit by fists in both eyes by my father. (and had to go to school that way) It's not fun getting a spanking. I don't spank my child, I just talk to her. She minds pretty well without the "switch"

Answer 10

Which hurts the most? The mouth.
Taking the child to a quiet area and talking to him/her and telling the child how what they did was bad, and how you now feel very sad, embarrassed about what they did. Tell the child that because of his/her actions that now everybody will be feeling very sad.
When a baby is little and getting into the electric outlets or something like that, it is ok by me to swat the offending hand and saying no! Baby's have to learn what no means and to listen to the parent. It may save the child's life. Age four is the time to stop swatting and start talking serious talk.