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@sweetchic: My mom did the cold shoulder thing, too and it always caused me so much stress and anxiety! I always swore I'd never, ever do that with my kids.

@caffeinated: Ditto on the Korean beatdown :T

My mom did all the disciplining. She is super southern so I would get spanked with her hand, hangers, wooden spoons...you name it. We even had to go outside and pick our own "switch" off the tree. That was the worst because you knew if you picked one too small she'd make you go back

Needless to say we're a no spanking home now!

@MungBean: I hated the cold stares and deep aggravated sighs while they mutter your name under their breath (shudders)

My mom was so bad with discipline and I will def not discipline the way she did.

My mom spanked us with a metal rod. It wasn't very thick but it did hurt. My dad never did the spanking - at least not for the day to day mishaps. Same with you, whenever my dad got involved, I was in big trouble.
It's ironic because now they're big softies with the grandchildren and claimed they were never harsh on my sister and I.

Sent to my room. But my sister would always come and talk to me and make me feel better.

Spanking, getting grounded and having privileges taken away. My mom was strict and she had a short temper - probably not helped by the fact that she was raising the 3 of us on her own and (as an adult I can see) under a considerable amount of stress.

While I am lucky to not be in her position, I will discipline LO in a similar way. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I'm "pro" spanking, but I'm not ruling it out. It's obviously something I would reserve for an extreme situation, though.

An aside: my brother got spanked by a nun in second grade and then the nun called my mom to apologize! My mom was like, "Oh, I'm sure he deserved it." And knowing my brother, he probably did