A request for forgiveness of sins and not punishing with spankings in childhood

When I was a child, when I did something wrong, I often asked my mother to forgive me and not to spank me. My mother didn't always spank me for my mistakes. It often ended with a reprimand. But if my mother decided that I would be spanked, nothing could change that. No requests worked. My mother said that if she forgave me, I would learn to avoid responsibility.

How was it for you? did the requests work?

How was it for you? did the requests work?

Never, ever worked for me. If I was going to receive a good hiding I'd get one! I might protest, cry, try to run away, beg etc but all would be futile. Most if not all were deserved and all were applied firmly!

I on the other hand must be a real soft touch because my son could and although spankings do not take place very often now in our home still can sometimes talk his way out of a smacked bottom. If he was to put up a good enough case to me and if he made/makes me laugh he can get away with it. My dad would never have been so lenient!

Once I was sentenced to a spanking that was it! There was no escaping it! My Mom and Aunt Rose as well as my Father and Uncle Frank meant business! I think just about all adults did in those days! No messing about, for sure! I think apart from anything else their thinking was if they did not follow through with the punishment you would not take them seriously in the future! And also they believed that wrongdoing deserved painful consequences! Impeccable logic!!

I never bothered with such a request. A good spanking in my house was look upon as a deserved penalty for my misbehavior. If the misbehavior occurred then the spanking was sure to occur. There was absolutely no malice involve just a clearly understood axiom that one event produced the other. If I wanted to avoid a spanking, I had to avoid misbehavior. If I crossed the line, I found myself over my dad's lap. That said, I was never spanked for an accident or because of a behavior bred of childish ignorance.

I’ve never considered that. There was no negotiation when it came to punishment. I dealt with it, and moved on. The standards that were acceptable during my childhood, would be considered abuse today, and could be prosecuted.

I was never spanked as a child so the issue about forgiveness didnt arrise.

However, when I was very young, 1960s, I would be made to sit on the naughty chair or stand in the naughty corner until I had explained to my parent(s) why I was there and was I sorry for what I did. This always worked with me and it taught me a few lessons!

A far better syetem that spankings I think.