[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Switching (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/19/2014 9:48:02 AM EDT
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A friend of mine who is in grad school got into a heated discussion with a classmate over the Adrian Peterson child abuse thing. My friend is mid to late 30s, and grew up in Mississippi and then moved to the metro-DC area of MD after his parents divorced. His classmate had never heard of being "switched," and she said it must be something only blacks in the South do. So my friend called me to see if I had ever been switched, and I have because was raised in the South.
So, how about everyone else? Is switching a regional thing? I have never talked to my friends from outside of the South about how they were disciplined when they were growing up so I don't really know if switching is a Southern thing or not. FWIW- his classmate went to a private school for undergrad, he thinks she was raised with a silver-spoon in her mouth, he wasn't really sure where she was raised, and they are both now at an HBCU working towards their M.P.P. degrees. Poll incoming... |
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Quoted: The worst part about getting the switch is having to go select it yourself. So you're telling me the worst part about getting the switch is, getting the switch? I always hated the part where the switch made contact with my ass after having passed light speed and going plaid!  |
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The worst part about getting the switch is having to go select it yourself. Old school! You had to think about all the way there, select one that's not too big or too small, and think about all the way back. THEN, you got switched. Yeah he did go overboard though. I never had blood drawn. |
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So you're telling me the worst part about getting the switch is, getting the switch? I always hated the part where the switch made contact with my ass after having passed light speed and going plaid!
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The worst part about getting the switch is having to go select it yourself. So you're telling me the worst part about getting the switch is, getting the switch? I always hated the part where the switch made contact with my ass after having passed light speed and going plaid!
Its psychological warfare at its finest. |
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I was switched in the mid west and the north east. Switches generally cause more pain then the belt or the hand because they are like a whip. They will cause marks very easily.
In school the teacher had us hold out our hand palm up and used a wood ruler. Those are worse than a wooden spoon.
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Dunno about regional...I thought it was fairly common in all sorts of places, although not across every socioeconomic and demographic spectrum.
Use of a switch isn't uncommon. Working a 4 year old over from his neck to his ankles with one like AP did, on the other hand, is. Quoted:
I was switched in the mid west and the north east. Switches generally cause more pain then the belt or the hand because they are like a whip. They will cause marks very easily. In school the teacher had us hold out our hand palm up and used a wood ruler. Those are worse than a wooden spoon. It's the application of force along a very concentrated area. In the old days in England they used rattan canes, which worked along the same principle. Here in the states you'd often see pictures of teachers with sticks they used to point at the board, but those sticks were often employed to whack misbehaving kids, too. The "benefit", if you could call it that, of these things was that you could inflict enough discomfort to get somebody's attention without having to use a lot of force like you would with, say, a paddle. |
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Old school! You had to think about all the way there, select one that's not too big or too small, and think about all the way back. THEN, you got switched. Yeah he did go overboard though. I never had blood drawn. Quoted:
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The worst part about getting the switch is having to go select it yourself. Old school! You had to think about all the way there, select one that's not too big or too small, and think about all the way back. THEN, you got switched. Yeah he did go overboard though. I never had blood drawn. Yep. You would almost be in tears before you got back with it. |
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Quoted: Yep. You would almost be in tears before you got back with it. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The worst part about getting the switch is having to go select it yourself. Old school! You had to think about all the way there, select one that's not too big or too small, and think about all the way back. THEN, you got switched. Yeah he did go overboard though. I never had blood drawn. Yep. You would almost be in tears before you got back with it.  |
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Dunno about regional...I thought it was fairly common in all sorts of places, although not across every socioeconomic and demographic spectrum. Use of a switch isn't uncommon. Working a 4 year old over from his neck to his ankles with one like AP did, on the other hand, is. It's the application of force along a very concentrated area. In the old days in England they used rattan canes, which worked along the same principle. Here in the states you'd often see pictures of teachers with sticks they used to point at the board, but those sticks were often employed to whack misbehaving kids, too. The "benefit", if you could call it that, of these things was that you could inflict enough discomfort to get somebody's attention without having to use a lot of force like you would with, say, a paddle. Quoted:
Dunno about regional...I thought it was fairly common in all sorts of places, although not across every socioeconomic and demographic spectrum. Use of a switch isn't uncommon. Working a 4 year old over from his neck to his ankles with one like AP did, on the other hand, is. Quoted:
I was switched in the mid west and the north east. Switches generally cause more pain then the belt or the hand because they are like a whip. They will cause marks very easily. In school the teacher had us hold out our hand palm up and used a wood ruler. Those are worse than a wooden spoon. It's the application of force along a very concentrated area. In the old days in England they used rattan canes, which worked along the same principle. Here in the states you'd often see pictures of teachers with sticks they used to point at the board, but those sticks were often employed to whack misbehaving kids, too. The "benefit", if you could call it that, of these things was that you could inflict enough discomfort to get somebody's attention without having to use a lot of force like you would with, say, a paddle. That is child abuse and looks like it was done in anger. I'd be surprised it the kid ever respected of loved his dad after that. |
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The worst part about getting the switch is having to go select it yourself. That's the third worse thing, behind the sting of the Mercurochrome put on the scratches afterward, and dreading what Dad would do when he got home. As my brother and I got older, Mom upped the ante with a riding crop, and Dad began taking away privileges such as desserts, toys, and movies. Bro and I were past the whipping stage by the time TV came around. |
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This isn't a continuation of my 2-way/3-way light switch thread?
But yes, I've been switched a bunch as a kid. The worst part was being told to go out and cut the switch, then being told no, that one's too little, get a bigger one. The agony of picking your own punishment tool. |
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Talk about mind torture. You have done something to deserve a punishment. Your mom says, wait until your father gets home and I tell him what you did. Father isn't going to be home for hours.......  reminds me of a time I got paddled in school. I was in 2nd grade and did something to warrant a paddling. Before the principal paddled you he always asked if there were any bruises on your bottom from your parents. I said that I think there were, so he called in another administrator and i had to drop trou and show them. I did have some. I was thinking "awesome, no paddling this time!" They delayed it a week to let the marks heal. I was on my best behavior hoping they'd change their mind and I still got paddled. That week was agonizing to me. The principal could swing a paddle too. He was drafted by the Braves and made it up to AA before he became a teacher/coach/administrator. |
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Switching is a tool for people who don't have any better way to discipline a child.
If a child can talk and reason, there is no rational reason to hit them with anything. Spanking is for children too young to understand logic and consequences, to keep them alive and healthy until they can. Humans "used to" do a lot of stupid shit, under the mistaken impression that it did some good. A guy at work always chimes in on these discussion about how his dad never held back with the belt or switch. I never do point out that he had a seriously fucked up life, so those beatings did jack squat to help him. Raging alcoholic for most of his life. Got into meth and nearly went to prison for a lengthy stay. I could go on...and on. |
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Born and raised in North.
I know what switching is, and I never got switched. I got cracked on the ass with a hand, a spatula or a wooden spoon when necessary. And yes, physical discipline is necessary and appropriate for raising children into well adjusted adults. |
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Born and raised in North. I know what switching is, and I never got switched. I got cracked on the ass with a hand, a spatula or a wooden spoon when necessary. And yes, physical discipline is necessary and appropriate for raising children into well adjusted adults. Should we let out the bad blood when they're sick? |
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did you see the pictures of that little boy? I have no problem with parents disciplining their children, but that was too much. I agree, individually I wouldn't get all upset about the mark, but the pattern bothered me. What was it 10+ evenly spaced marks? |
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Quoted: did you see the pictures of that little boy? I have no problem with parents disciplining their children, but that was too much. |
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Quoted: Dunno about regional...I thought it was fairly common in all sorts of places, although not across every socioeconomic and demographic spectrum. Use of a switch isn't uncommon. Working a 4 year old over from his neck to his ankles with one like AP did, on the other hand, is. It's the application of force along a very concentrated area. In the old days in England they used rattan canes, which worked along the same principle. Here in the states you'd often see pictures of teachers with sticks they used to point at the board, but those sticks were often employed to whack misbehaving kids, too. The "benefit", if you could call it that, of these things was that you could inflict enough discomfort to get somebody's attention without having to use a lot of force like you would with, say, a paddle. Quoted: Dunno about regional...I thought it was fairly common in all sorts of places, although not across every socioeconomic and demographic spectrum. Use of a switch isn't uncommon. Working a 4 year old over from his neck to his ankles with one like AP did, on the other hand, is. Quoted: I was switched in the mid west and the north east. Switches generally cause more pain then the belt or the hand because they are like a whip. They will cause marks very easily. In school the teacher had us hold out our hand palm up and used a wood ruler. Those are worse than a wooden spoon. It's the application of force along a very concentrated area. In the old days in England they used rattan canes, which worked along the same principle. Here in the states you'd often see pictures of teachers with sticks they used to point at the board, but those sticks were often employed to whack misbehaving kids, too. The "benefit", if you could call it that, of these things was that you could inflict enough discomfort to get somebody's attention without having to use a lot of force like you would with, say, a paddle. |
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Switched a few times. Not as many or severe as my brother. I had/have a high pain tolerance so whipping was less effective than professing disappointment in me.
He kicked me in the shin with cowboy boots when he was ~8 and I was~5. drew blood and I hit the floor. Mom drew blood on his legs that time and he never wore boots and shorts again. Hand, belt, switch and metal handled flyswatter. The flyswatter was the worst. Parents used to pull off of side of road on trips to our grandparents house at this same bush that produced optimum switches and cut a bundle, and them place said bundle on back dash of car for the remainder of the trip. Wes |
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As a Mississippi boy, I can tell you a switching or belting was the biggest play in the parents playbook.
I rarely fell victim because I didn't want to be switched, so yeah, I was a good child. Shitty brat children nowadays join the FSA, quite frankly. Interesting poll, I wonder how many of those on disability got properly disciplined as a child. |