What's the worst punishment you either had to give to your kids or got as a kid?

My kids so far are pretty well behaved so we dont really have to punish them. A stern voice from me sets them straight typically.

My dad beat me with a switch he calmly cut off a tree on the front porch in front of all the neighbors when I was 8. Sad thing is I don’t remember what I did. Hurt like hell and was pretty embarrassing.

I got kicked out of summer camp when I was in middle school. We lived out in the country and our yard was around 4 acres. My dad went and bought a brand new yazoo push mower with the bicycle tire wheels on the back. For at least 5 hours every day that summer, I had to push mow the lawn or cut fence rows. As soon as I would get finished mowing the whole yard, I might get a day of cutting fence rows in before I had to start mowing again or else the grass would get too high and make it tougher to push. My stepmom didn't work, so she kept track of my hours and if I actually worked or not and reported back to my dad at the end of the day. The only thing that saved me from working was rain, and it was a long, hot, dry summer. I got worked hard that summer all to pay my parents back for the cost of that week of summer camp.

I punched a kid in his balls in 2nd grade and was sent to the principal’s office. My mom was on her 2nd marriage to a real abusive jackass. When we got back to the apartment all of my stuff was pushed to the sides of my room. The overweight jackass had me lie down in the middle of the floor and proceeded to sit on my back and made me smoke cigarettes. It was absolutely disgusting and I’ve hated cigarettes to this day. So in a sense he stopped me from being a smoker. His most regularly used punishment was to have me stand with my back against the wall with my arms straight out and he’d put books on my hands. When my arms dropped a little that’s when he would start beating me with a belt. That would cause me to drop the books and I would continue getting beat until I picked up the books. He was a real a-hole.

At 16, my daughter thought she was above the law. Second time being late coming home. It got heated. I smashed her phone to piece's, put her on her knees until she could barely function and was crying profusely and grounded for two weeks.

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put her on her knees until she could barely function

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Huh?

I refused to eat my vegetables one night at dinner. Dad woke me up at 6AM the next morning to a plate full of steaming broccoli and a cold glass of milk and i wasn't allowed to leave the table until jd eaten it all. I haven't eaten broccoli since.

Castor Oil.

I got two speeding tickets when I was 15 years old. Courts took away my driving privileges for 90 days.
That kind of sucked

God has blessed me so far. My daughter has never gotten into trouble. She shares her location on her phone with us and she typically can be found in the library on Friday and Sat nights, and in her dorm by 930-10. Worst punishment has been taking away her phone in high school for back talking her mom.

My son hates school but loves swimming, so
We are constantly trying to impress upon him the value of academics and getting into a good college. So, from time to time, we have to remove his video game privileges for a week or more.

Other than normal teenage BS from my son, we haven’t really had to “discipline” them.