funniest memory from my non-gentle-discipline upbringing

[mommysarah5]

I remember watching Matilda when I was growing up, and there is a part where she puts something in her moms shampoo or something like that. Well, one time after my mom spanked me I put chemicals in her shampoo to get revenge. I think it was just rubbing alcohol or something. Probably didn't even notice, but it made me feel better. She didn't abuse me but I was always looking for ways to get revenge. There were some darker moments of that, but that was one of the funnier ones lol

[ASusan]

I gave my dad socks for Christmas and put a note in one of them that said, "I hate you." I can't remember the exact reason why, but trust me, there were enough reasons.

ETA - sorry I couldn't think of a funnier memory. maybe later.

[mommysarah5]

Originally Posted by ASusan

I gave my dad socks for Christmas and put a note in one of them that said, "I hate you." I can't remember the exact reason why, but trust me, there were enough reasons.

ETA - sorry I couldn't think of a funnier memory. maybe later.

you are my hero! I couldn't do anything she could directly catch me for lol

[Deer Hunter]

Oh, i have done plenty of things, and still to this day, they do not know it was me. I was the kind of child that was good to their face, but behind their backs, I was a little devil. If only they even knew of the tenth of the bad things I did. hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha Where do I begin? Hmmmmmmmmmm.

I hid my mother's shoes when she was not looking because she spanked me the nnight before for not going to bed. (She found out later in my teen years that i had a sleep disorder due to being blind, but she stopped making me go to bed long before that because she figured it was useless, and no matter how much i was disciplined, i was going to do it my way regardless.) When she was in a panic looking for them, I had to go in my room and laugh. When she asked if I'd seen them, I looked all inocent and said I did not know and hope she'd find them. I even put on a show and pretended to look, too. I had to have been around five then.

I also did the same with her keys on a number of occasions. When I felt like she was spending too much time with the babies, spanked me or yelled at me for something, or ignored me, I hid her keys because I knew that it was a matter of time before she'd need them. I thought it was funny to watch her go around in a frenzy, thinking she had put her keys elsewhere, when in fact, she actually did but I messed with her a bit. I started doing this at the age of six.

I dumped out the nasal spray and put toilet water in the spritzer instead. Oh, how i laughed. I added some salt to it, so they'd think they were getting nasal spray still. I did this on a number of occasions when I felt vengeful for them yelling at me or spanking me. I stopped when they no longer had nasal spray in the house. My mom stopped getting it because she said it was too dangerous and would ruin your membranes.

One day when my mom stepped away from making her lunch because the baby was crying, I spit in it, rubbed it in so it would not be noticed, and i ran off on my merry way. I felt like I'd fix her for always spending too much time with that baby and not me. I was six then.


I could go on for hours with this. Let me know if you want to hear more.

[mommysarah5]

I love hearing things like this. Unfortunately the rest of mine were more depressing. I turned most of my depression about the way she treated me inward, becoming suicidal and cutting myself when her and I faught (either her yelling at me or hitting me) I know I could have had it worse, one of those parents even the law calls abusive, but maybe I was a sensitive child. Hmmmm. I remember one time I sat out inthe rain because I wanted to get sick because she would be nice to me. The thing was, it's not that my mom wasn't nice to me the rest of the time anyway, it was just that she never hit me when I was sick, so it was like a guarantee she would keep being nice to me.

She was super nice the rest of the time though. We had a lot of great moments, just the hitting seems to r and register as stronger memories and so it's funny to think of the vengeful ideas I had and things I did...

[eunytuny]

I remember my grandmother didn't like me and when she came over
to watch us when my little brother was being born I got in her overnight bag and squeezed out all her toothpaste. I turned around and saw her standing in the door watching me and I thought "oh no! I'm caught." I was five.

[rhiOrion]

Not a story about me, but my good friend hated her step father (for good reason, the man was a complete jerk), so she dipped his toothbrush in the toilet. Actually, I seem to remember her peeing on it, too.

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I did two things that I can remember.

I cut the fringe off of her HUGE oval shaped floor rug. It took me an hour to do it.. and every time someone would walk through, I would try to look like I was just lying on the floor doing nothing.

She didn't notice for a week.

Then, I was REALLY mad at her, and I took a new thing of Chapstick and covered her entire coffee table with chapstick.

[georgia]

I could go on for hours with this. Let me know if you want to hear more.

Actually, this forum is set up to discuss Gentle Discipline, so we'll need to ask that you take further tales to Talk Amongst Yourselves which is our off-topic forum

[mommysarah5]

Sorry, I just thought it was appropriate here because it reminds me WHY I used gentle discipline. Well, not the only reason of course lol

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Originally Posted by georgia

Actually, this forum is set up to discuss Gentle Discipline, so we'll need to ask that you take further tales to Talk Amongst Yourselves which is our off-topic forum

I had no idea such a forum existed. LOL. I always wondered why MDC didn't have an off topic forum. Lazy me... never scroll down that far.

[Deer Hunter]

Sorry.
I'll be mindful of this. I do not want to make your job as a mod any harder than it is. Keep up the awesome work making this community what it is--wonderful.

[Deer Hunter]

Hey, mods, could this thread please be moved to the proper forum so we could continue this duscussion? I just do not see it proper starting another thread with the same exact topic. Thanks so much for your time and effort that you put into this community. Blessings

[happyhippy]

Well the thread wasnt moved so ill continue!

My dad had eczema and used a special soap that we did not use. One day i lathered up my hands real good with our regular soap and wiped it all over his towel. hehehehe

Guess i should thank my dad for being such a shit since it forced me to think critically of how i would parent.

[mamamille]

I think the day I could run faster than my mom was a funny day... out of the house and up the hill, and she couldn't catch me LOL

BTW mod- I think this is an appropriate place cause I struggle with GD and it is such a good reminder of what the children feel on the other end of a more punitive system of punishment...

[holothuroidea]

My Nana used to smack my face for talking back to my mother, which I did all the time. The smacking never stopped me.

One time, I'd corrected something my mom said and Nana got very cross with me. I said "What are you going to do? Smack me. Go ahead. Make me eat soap!? I don't care, you can't hurt me. I'll do it myself." I marched right in the bathroom, put a bar of soap in my mouth, and came back with my attitude well intact talking with a bar of soap in my mouth. LOL

I was around 7yo

[mommysarah5]

Originally Posted by mamamille

I think the day I could run faster than my mom was a funny day... out of the house and up the hill, and she couldn't catch me LOL

BTW mod- I think this is an appropriate place cause I struggle with GD and it is such a good reminder of what the children feel on the other end of a more punitive system of punishment...

yes, this is such a good reminder for me as well on those hard days. I always try to remember what it was like to be that child :

[puddle]

When I was little and had to stand in the corner, I used to pick the little bumps of paint off the wall and eat them, hoping they'd make me sick AND THEN THEY'D BE SORRY!!! It never worked.

[Romana]

These stories make me sad. I don't think they're funny at all. Actually, they make me worry about my own children feeling this way about me. I never did anything like this to either of my parents, but I could see at least one of my kids as having the sort of attitude where they would.

Especially where the reaction is not due to something like spanking, but like the PP said, because her mother was spending too much time with her baby brother in her 5 year old perception. I guess it just makes me wonder how I could ever prevent that sort of thing, when naturally attention will be divided among children, and a baby's inability to comprehend waiting renders it less able to wait.

[AppleCrisp]

I also hid my mom's keys. She was a teacher in my school and I hid them in her classroom. At the end of the day I came down and she was all upset, and had all these kids taking her room apart looking for them. I walked right in, got them out from under the pile where I'd hidden them, and became a hero! I laughed and laughed at how upset she was and how she thought I was the hero when I actually was the VILLAIN!!

They were awful spankers, just random hitting with whatever object was handy. It didn't hurt...as my mom would say, "Its the humiliation that counts." So stupid....all it did was make me more clever so as not to get caught.