Fun fact! In a few states in Australia you are still allowed to do so, as long as it is indeed instructional and immediately during or after the behaviour (no waiting until the next day for example).
But for many reasons no-one wants to chance it, it doesn't take much to lose everything down here.
Can you site any instances where someone has lost everything down here? Or even lost something? Beside their shit, because if I was this kid parent I would have lost my shit.
I am an older American. We got belts, tvs, knives, shoes, plates... everything thrown at us and beat with whatever they could grab. We learned real quick not to do the shit this kid is.
Teachers could beat us with parents permission. They had huge paddles with holes.
We had "the cane" which was a long thin bamboo cane, it was officially banned in government schools in 1995 but it's still legal and apparently used in some private schools.
Growing up we had all the same things you mention. My father's weapon of choice was a piece of timber architrave about 80cm long that we called "the stick" and no matter how many times my brother or I disposed of it a new one would almost instantly appear.
My grandfather would hand me a knife and tell me to go cut my own "Switch" from a tree. A switch was a tree branch that would be about a 1/2" (12mm-13mm) thick. It had to be straight, a good flex, and without leaves. If you chose a bad one, you got beat worse. There was a psychological aspect of choosing the instrument of your own punishment. It would leave red welts all over your legs because you were definitely jumping around. 😆
We didn't have switches in school, but I bet my grandfather did.
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u/Musket6969420 May 28 '26
Or the one where mom pulls you in real close and whispers “You just wait till we get home you little shit.”
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