Both my parents spanked me on the rare occasion I merited it. I honestly think it helped make me a better person. I don't feel abused, but I obey them as I ought to. I didn't turn me into a deviant or an unquestioning drone. I think it comes down to there being a right amount of discipline for most effectiveness.

We were hit with a strap. We didn't have to drop our pants. I don't remember getting the strap more than once, I learned quickly not to anger my father.

My dad would put his hand in a fist with his middle knuckle sticking out and whack me right on the top of the head with it. Ouch! Man, it hurt so bad. I learned to obey my dad. I had great respect for him. I never felt like he abused me. I deserved some form of punishment. I especially had to be careful with the tone I used while talking to my mother. My dad would come unglued if he even sensed a saracstic, rude tone in my voice while talking with my mom. I love him so much for teaching me to be obedient and respect my mom.

Thanks guys for giving me feed back. My brothers and I never felt like we were abused either. We were roudy boys and Dad acted as referee. He taught us respect, self-discipline and self-reliance, he wasn't perfect by any means and on occasion really let us have it! I remember one time all four of us got into a big fight and he had to drag us a part. He took us out back and mad us drop our pants and lean agaist the side of the house, then he took off his belt and gave each of us a whipping. No lie... I was not able to sit comfortable for a week! However that was the exception not the rule. We also were taught not to disrespect our Mom... he mad good on his threat to blister our backsides if we did!

No, he'd yell a lot, but never spanked me.

My mom used a wooden spoon. She used to threaten us by smacking it on the counter. She must have broken about 2 dozen of the things.

I guess I'm asking this question cause you hear so many bad things about spanking kids... but my experience was that it was a good thing for us and gave my Dad an effective tool for raising his sons. As a kid, I must admit I thought it was unfair, but as an adult I can now see how much it helped make a good man out of me. We didn't get punished often, but when we did it left a lasting impression. If one of us got hauled over my Dad's knee for a spanking it was only when we had really earned it and he would make sure he left you with a very bright red & sore backside. We grew up in the 1970's and our Dad was pretty strict with us, but he had to be, because me and my brother were quite a handful! We were subject to corporal punishment up until the age if eighteen and though used much lest often in our teen years dad mad it clear we were not to old to get spanked if we got out of line. I only got spanked a couple of times in my teen years, the last time when I was 17. I was just wondering of other guys felt the same way about corporal punishment?

not enough and could use one today but when he did it was the strap from his workpants he should have used it more

Yes! Paddled, strapped, and flex-rod flogged and for less serious offenses hand spanked, almost always bare. Especially severe episodes due to getting suspended from school for using and possessing illicit substances and fighting, both in my senior year. Thought for the most part my parental spankings came to an end with my leaving home for college, I managed very recently to get a long, hard,-and deserved-flogging recently (at 21 years of age) for getting a speeding ticket going more than 70 MPH over a 45 MPH posted speed limit while street racing . I think the whole neighborhood heard me catching the flexible rod, howling and out and out screaming through much of it, as did several former high school female classmates who were apparently amazed and exited by the prospect of my getting a severe hiding. This after getting ticketed and billy club spanked with my hands on the hood of my car and my shorts lowered and kicked off my feet in front of everyone there. for mouthing off. I'm getting teased about that a lot now. It took days for the welts to go down so I could sit comfortably. My girlfriend meanwhile is dreaming up scenarios relating to my recent transgressions to role play punishment spankings for me when all soreness has gone away.

Man, he'd spank me hard. I'd get it first on my pants, then on my briefs, and finally on my bare butt with a wooden hairbrush. I couldn't sit down for a week. And what always made me mad was that he wouldn't spank my little sister, just me and my brother!

I'm a girl,and yeah my dad used to spank me,always standing and with a belt,since I was very little only a few swats,what's weird,never over the knee or with hand and I don't remember bare,but even so he spanked me often because I was naughty,but sometimes he didn't punish me because he's the only person in this world who is just like me and understood me doing some things,I cna't say I learned to respect my mom thought because when I was 6 or so he died and my mom never understands me,I'm telling you if my loved daddy was alive I wouldn't mind him spanking me in the hashest ways ever,I love him and miss him so much,but without him being here to punish me remembering him does make me wanna try to be a better person...

My mom did (didnt have a dad)!

OOOhhh yes he did!!. My (adopted) Dad would discipline me. He would spank my bare bottom!! but also had another way of guarateeing a very sore bottom!, he would put me across his lap and would rub my bottom with a small piece of sandpaper, hard, for 30 seconds, it didn't hurt much as he did it but as he stood me back up my bum felt like it had been set on fire!!-VERY sore!, then a sound telling off before being put in the corner with my hands on my head and bottom on fire!...oh the pain!!...i can still remember it!. After half an hour he would call me and i had to stand infront of him with my bare botty turned up for him to rub cream in.....oh the embarrassment! having my Dad rubbing cream into my bare bottom! but ANYTHING to ease the stinging!. Although it was still sore for a good few days after it taught me to behave and worked a real treat!...GOOD ONE DAD!. (still red-faced)!

You bet your ass I got spankings. Was the middle bro , my older was always getting me in trouble, next we'd both get taken to the woodshed, there hung the dreaded razor strop, it was my Granddads, and Dad always reminded us how he used to get it, so- he'd have me drop my jeans, I got it first- bend over the wooden horse, he'd pull down my jocky shorts, and wham, he'd lay the strop across my bare ass-never less than 10 times, usually 20-30. After the whipping ended, I'd pull up my jeans, crying from the burning pain, and be sent to my room. Didn't go, waited till my bro went in and got his ass busted, he'd usually get twice as many strokes, and yell like a squeeling pig! I enjoyed that. Our younger bro also got his, but seemed to have far fewer, but he doesn't believe that. Also, have 4 boys of my own, and yes I do whip their bare butts. Also, we all loved Dad, he passed away last year.