Pondering with a Purpose - Punishment part 2

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This Week's prompt is:                          Punishments you've received

Last week we discussed how you punish those you love and what methods work the best for you. The responses were great ... thank you all!

So... this week I thought we'd turn the tables and discuss punishments you've received and what that did to you.... to make you who you are today, or to change the way you punish others....

In my case I remember three very distinct instances and they certainly formed me into the person I am and changed the way I punished my own....

First ... I must have been three or four .... Someone left a candy wrapper under a piece of furniture and my mother wanted to know who did it...so she lined the four of us up - I was the youngest - and asked each one of us if we did it. Each time all 4 of us said no we would be spanked. This continued at least three times before I fessed up that I had left it there --- in fact I did no such thing --- but I was done with the punishment. I learned from that instance that - well first - one of my older brothers is a liar! but more importantly, if you want to get to the truth of the matter do NOT line up all of your children in a row and threaten them together.. the weakest link will always break.

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Second ... Whenever (and I do mean whenever) my mother would get mad she would say, "Get out of my site." - - -  Now, do you have any idea what that does to a child? Let me tell you... I never knew how long that was for and all children adore the affection of their mother and this was like pulling the rug out from underneath me..... I NEVER used those words on my children, in fact, I was quite careful about what I would say when I was mad --- and if the wrong words slipped out, an apology was sure to follow.

Third .... I learned that my children were very good at the art of punishing me as well....

If they got mad they would threaten to take away their love --- I never believed that one!

but what was worse is when I would slip and betray their trust and the words, "I will never trust you again!" would come from their mouths. Inadvertantly it wasn't really true... or is it????

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How about you? What are some of the worst punishments you can recall?

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