I was spanked as a kid, but not often enough for it to be memorable, and not hard (but more than a swat). I did have my mouth washed out with soap when I was 15 or 16 for calling my mother a bitch.

Who here got spanked by their parents?

Not in my memory. My father used to threaten us with a belt by snapping it, but he never ever used it. My mother slapped me once when I told her to shut up. I was 11 or 12. Given that my parents never even raised their voices with us, I'm sure I deserved that.

I wasn't ever spanked in my memory. Might have been at some point as a toddler, but I don't remember it.

I got spanked as a child, alhtough I don't remember the last time or how often.

We have occsionally spanked Ellie - usually for outright disrespect/disobediance. Since she's not wearing diapers anymore, it's a bit harder than before, but honestly, it never seems to phase her (which is part of why we don't do it that often). Time out is much more horrible to her.

I think I was spanked once when I was pretty little (pre-school age), but that's it.

We got spanked in a getting a swat right when you got caught doing something sense, not in a formal now-for-your-spanking get put across the knees way. Eta: that probably stopped some time in elementary school, though I don't really remember. I was rarely naughty, though, so it's hard to say what the parameters were.

Corporal punishment was allowed in my schools right up through high school - in high school you typically got to choose between getting paddled and calling your parents, lots of kids preferred the paddle.

My parents were adamant about not spanking.

Last night I popped my dog on the butt and my doorman said "Aww... don't hit her. Just tell her to stop." and I felt like a monster. He's probably right, when she makes that high-pitched yip there is just something so satisfying about the coresponding "whap" on her little tush (which does make it stop immediately)

But, yeah, I'll likely stop doing that.

My Mother's parents didn't spank at all. My Father's parents I think did a little with their older children -- they certainly never barked about my parents not spanking us though my Father's one brother did.

Happy birthday, CaBil!

I remembered it was Guy Fawkes day mostly because I watched V for Vendetta Saturday night.

Random question: Who here got spanked by their parents? ::raises hand:: Not too often, though. The last time was probably when I was eight-ish.

I wasn't spanked as a kid because my dad was supposed to do it and he would just hit the bed and tell me to cry like I'd been spanked when I left the room. He did have a way of holding my elbow or pinching the skin on my upper arm to get me to pay attention. Mostly he just had to look dissappointed in me to punish me.

Mom did slap me once a la FNL's Tami, but I'm sure I was doing/saying something fairly Julie-like.

Charming puppy with big paws and big ears.

Looks like a very substantial fox.

I hope I didn't suggest that my dad was a monster about it. I think he did the best he could, all things considered (and those things being that his parents were almost certainly very cruel punishers, that he was still in his very early 20s when they had me, that he's not much of an independent thinker at his best, and, especially, that his only-slightly older brother abused his kids so much that it's taken years for them to have any sort of relationship with him).