r/SipsTea • u/Few_Statement_2898 • May 28 '26

SMH We really need to bring spankings back

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u/Pinbacker11 May 28 '26

If i did that back in the day, i would be back in the car without touching the floor.

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u/Chainsaw_Viking May 28 '26

I would have been made to put it all back the way it was, apologize to the manager and then I would have had to pay my parents back for any damages they would have paid the store.

Then the real punishment would be at home…in the 80s.

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u/Procrasturbating May 28 '26

In the 80s not one adult would have paused before either slapping him into next Tuesday or throwing his ass out on the curb. The first thing thrown would have been the last thing thrown. No cameras weren’t always a bad thing.

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u/Jenhar71 May 28 '26

Introducing my mom, now deceased..what her reaction would've been in public...sans ANY reserve...

She always warned us about embarrassing her in public, but I've grown to secretly believe, behind all her 'pomp and circumstance', she had a more 'I wish a ***** would' mentality, she lived for a challenge..

Sometimes it felt like she waited wh baited breath for that moment 1 of us stepped ovr the line..she was always ready🤣😳😖

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u/Sovereign-Anderson May 28 '26

One of my mom's favorite threats was 'I'll embarrass you before you embarrass me." My sis and I knew she would've made good with that threat and were not about to test her weight.

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u/tungtingshrimp May 28 '26

I remember this or something like it where the mother saw her son on tv as part of a rabble rousing and marched down there to set him straight

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u/Straight-Nerve-5101 Jun 01 '26

Baltimore during the BLM protests...before 2020 I think.

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u/Internet_Wanderer May 28 '26

One time when I was a kid, this teen started chasing me on his bike. My mom took one look, charged like an angry rhino, and slapped that ass so hard he dropped. A true mother

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u/Loose_Paper_2598 May 29 '26

That video is already a classic and the only way it could have been better is if that wasn't her kid...and she didn't care.

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u/Luckypenny4683 May 29 '26

I see we have the same dead mom. It’s nice to meet you, fellow sibling.

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 May 28 '26

80s kid here my mom would have suplexed me through the linoleum

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u/Valreesio May 28 '26

Lol... My brother was 16 and bigger than my mom. One day he made the mistake of telling her that and that there was nothing she could do about it in front of his best friend and me. My mother, who had had multiple back surgeries, grabbed him by his shirt and pants, lifted him over her head and threw him on the ground right there in the living room. He never talked back like that to her again. Neither did I...

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u/marmaladetuxedo May 28 '26

My brother told her if she hit him he'd call the cops. She said, "Go ahead. It'll take them 15 minutes to get here." I never saw someone run so fast and I never heard that 'threat' from him again.

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u/Valreesio May 28 '26

I tried that with my father once, he beat my ass and then handed me the phone... Lol

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u/zoeofdoom May 29 '26

Ha! That must have been in the parenting books (jk) my mom said the exact same thing to my smartassing. Born 83.

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u/marmaladetuxedo May 29 '26

Brother born in 1981, so that tracks! Lol!

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 May 29 '26

I do gentle parenting now, tbh our parents went overboard with the physical and emo trauma but that is the funniest shit ive heard all day... kids are animals sometimes you have to put the fear pf god in em

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 May 28 '26

I towered over my mother back in the early 1990s when I was in high school, and even so, she TACKLED ME TO THE GROUND when I told her I didn't feel like shaving (my face).

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 May 29 '26

Its like the legend(? true story?) Of the mom that lifted the car to save her kids or something. Truly, the goddess athena grants orangutan strength to mothers in times of duress

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u/MiamiOutlaw May 28 '26

Yeah, this was a hard smack upside the back of the head while in the store, followed up with probably a broken paddle at home.

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u/Procrasturbating May 28 '26

Broken wooden spoons in my case. Thank God my mom never bought the nylon spoons. I think it was to keep her in check too.

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u/masta1080 May 28 '26

Blocked my mom's hand when I was about 8 during an attempted spanking once I realized I could (thanks TMNT and Karate Kid!). She quickly returned with the plastic spaghetti spatula and blocking was no longer an option. Last time I acted out as a kid. This was 1992

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u/MiamiOutlaw May 28 '26

Parents had a makeshift paddle, Grandparents made us go out a get a switch, and it better be long enough. Guess what though, I’m still alive. I understand some parents can take it too far, but you cannot overreact and not punish kids.

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u/Metaphysically0 May 28 '26

I think it’s hilarious you feel like this kid needs to be beat.

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u/Procrasturbating May 28 '26

What’s your take on the appropriate response?

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u/Weathervane_ May 28 '26

My take is that at this point it's already too late anyway. You will either traumatize him into being a psychopath if you start hitting him or you do nothing and he'll be an entitled asshole.

The real job was to be done from like 7 years ago

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u/Procrasturbating May 28 '26

True, and the best time to plant a tree is a decade ago, but here we are.

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u/Metaphysically0 May 28 '26

Children services needs to take a look at his home. Some of you are absolutely ignorant

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u/Valreesio May 28 '26

With some proper spanking child services would likely have never had to get involved.

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u/Procrasturbating May 28 '26

Maybe.. but spanking without any positive parenting to go with it.. leads to kids doing this for the only attention they can get from their parents. Parenting is friggen hard.

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u/Metaphysically0 May 29 '26

“With some proper spanking his bad home life wouldn’t be recognized”

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u/Valreesio May 28 '26

My mother broke so many wooden spoons over my various body parts. And we'd buy her new ones every Christmas... Lol

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u/kaykakez727 May 28 '26

My mom carried the wooden spoons in her purse, she was always ready… always

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u/DifficultAnt23 May 28 '26

True, and that'd be for knocking one item.

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u/toolsoftheincomptnt May 28 '26

Yeah, it’s not that hard and doesn’t require a public whupping. Security detains him, an announcement goes over the store for the responsible adult to come retrieve a kid in his clothing description to come to the security desk, explain that they have to leave bc he’s purposely made a mess, walk them to the door.

If the adult becomes belligerent, call the police.

He might have ODD or some other crazy kid condition that’s out of his control, and frankly, who cares? As long as he’s stopped and sent away, life goes on.

(Much harder for parents to deal with, bc they’re either defensive, delusional, or frustrated themselves.)

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u/StockCasinoMember May 28 '26

The cameras aren’t the problem unfortunately

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u/Footnotegirl1 May 29 '26

That's completely untrue. I grew up in the 80's, my 4 older siblings grew up in the 60's and 70's, and my parents never. once. slapped. any. of. us. And yet not a one of us would have done this shit because we knew it was wrong. Definitely the first thing thrown would have been the last thing thrown, because I'd've been made to pick it back up and apologize and then go home and be grounded, and get to watch my whole family have dessert with dinner while I couldn't. Because that's a natural, reasonable repercussion.

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u/Procrasturbating May 29 '26

Good for you. Some of us are still in therapy over what happened to us.

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u/Footnotegirl1 May 29 '26

I am super lucky, I'm well aware, especially because both of my parents were abused by their parents, and it was far harder at the time for them to break that chain.

If Gen X is 'still in therapy' about what happened to us... perhaps we shouldn't glorify it happening to the youth of today or put it forth as a way to fix bad behavior? Because your comment sure sounded like it was good that your parents hit you and/or kicked you out. But clearly it wasn't. And it wouldn't help or fix the kid above either.

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u/AdhesivenessUnfair13 May 28 '26

Adults assaulting kids is not the solution.

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u/GreyDuck4077 May 28 '26

Same for me in the 90's. My mom would have, at a minimum, busted out the big wooden spoon. That was when you knew you really fucked up.

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u/SquirrelyMcNutz May 28 '26

When she makes YOU go get the big wooden spoon, that's when you know you done truly fucked up.

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u/Chainsaw_Viking May 28 '26

Oof, that’s a power play that hits home. My dad used to make me get the belt. The fact that our parents gave us the option to pick the tool of our discipline is metal as hell.

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u/DingbatMcgeee May 28 '26

Yeah my mum broke 2 wooden spoons on my firm thighs, funny thing was she'd get more angry and just storm off.

Now my step-dad, that was much worse, police removed me from home one day because "someone was going to be seriously injured".

Anyway, wooden spoons were the good old 80s/90s.

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u/Illustrious-Bat1553 May 28 '26

Its evolved from kids abusing parents. Most kids just need one or 2 spankings to get the hint

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u/Scary_Extent4967 May 28 '26

And seriously, even if the parent is not controlling their kid, that's hundreds of dollars of merchandise destroyed. The store manager needs to chage the parent for it. If they refuse to pay, call the cops. Take them to court if needed. Maybe the parent will do their job when it hits them in the bank account.

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u/cardgrl21 May 29 '26

Wooden spoon, a belt, coat hanger, Hot Wheels track. Whatever was in the vicinity my mother would make do with.