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Gisela (for Alfred)
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Date Posted: 15:11:57 04/20/25 Sun
In reply to:
Alfred22
's message, "Re: Plausible punishment spankings" on 23:11:08 04/19/25 Sat
Thank you very much for your sympathy, Alfred. Yes, he was a wonderful man, and yes - I miss him.
"And some of them already know that the wooden spoon doesn't have to be the end of the punishment."
The sentence actually alluded more to the fact that it is rather unusual here (in our family, but as far as I can tell in Switzerland as a whole) to put a child who is already in the teens over the knee and tan their bare bottom with a brush or wooden spoon. What is obviously a great fascination in the States seems a little artificial to me as a Swiss woman, perhaps even “silly”. I don't want to judge this type of punishment when it is used on older, perhaps even almost grown-up children - it's just not common here for that age.
In Switzerland, anyone who decides to still physically punish his children when they are already in their teens will usually have them lie down across an armchair or a table and carry out the punishment with a cane, a belt or something similar. When I was a child, the blows were either actually administered with a cane or occasionally with an old, braided dog leash. We have kept it very similar with our four children. Our eldest grandchildren are 13 and 14 now and also get their spankings now with either a cane or a belt, which should explain the sentence above. Our second eldest son uses the power cable of a radio for this purpose, which really causes a nasty pain. However, my skepticism in this regard was disproved by success - and in the end it always depends on how hard you hit with it.
“Writing an apology while sitting bare bottom on a hard wooden chair or church pew?” This is not a tradition in my family either. But I remember a friend from school who, after a spanking, always had to justify to her family the next weekend why the spankings she had received were necessary and deserved. A very humiliating practice!
Oh God, now I'm getting chatty at the end. Enough for today. A heartfelt “Fuerti” - Your Gisi
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