Inspired by the last couple of posts in the soap-thread...

What was your moms favorite way to humiliate(1) you?™

Share your most wonderful childhood-memories, express yourself, discuss...

(1) "teach you a lesson"

Verbal/psychological criticism, didn't come from an ill willed place but had no control over negative reactions and perspectives. Figured out last year my mom/dad/brother are textbook histrionic personality disorder which explained why things were not right for the longest time for reasons I hadn't been able to put my finger on

It would be extremely unusual if your mom and your dad, both unrelated, had a histrionic personality disorder. Not impossible, of course, but it'd be one hell of a coincidence.

Wouldn't it be as likely as 2 natural red heads having a kid, presuming the estimate in the population is similar at a couple percent? If using 2% as an example - and with histrionic's undetected nature, if the real number was 5%+ it shouldn't be a surprise, especially in the internet era though that's not relevant to my parents - a red head or histrionic who ends up having kids, should have about a 1 in 50 chance their partner has it too, no? This is before taking into account if red heads are more likely to partner with red heads, or histrionics are more likely to partner with histrionics

belt no
soap in mouth (fo' real) once
kitchen utensils (!) many times, even once on holiday
verbally/psychologically the most often
pinch no
slap on the ass, I think all kids have this one done at some time or another
beat you with a stick (a broom, etc.) no
spit in your face no, who does that?
rape no
by not buying you the b-day/xmas/whatever-gift you deserved not really, my mum just loved buying
grounding occasionally
calling dad to do the dirty work (beating²) what dad?
denial of motherly services (cooking, etc.) not really
other (specify) what else IS there?

How could you forget the dreaded fly swatter

Rape has 33% of the vote

My mom can really be passive aggressive.

Which means what exactly?

It means exactly what you think being passive aggressive means. lol

I know what it means.

I haven't thought about this for longer than I can recall, by my mom's unusual punishment would be to thump me on the head. Very bizarre in retrospect. Not a bop or a knock, but like when you kick a paper triangle field goal, for lack of a better description. It's more a 'flick' I guess, but she called in a thump.

The rubber or plastic spatula was my moms favorite instrument of torture but she gave two warnings first. The 1st one was picking the spatula from the drawer and putting on the table. The 2nd warning was by slamming the spatula on the counter or table real hard. If the nonsense persisted that spatula will hit your arm and/or your butt.

The belt was more of my dads way of punishment but first he had to catch me . I always stupidly cornered myself...

A good ol' slap in the face. And threats of sending me away to boarding school if I didn't get straight A's (in elementary school).

Also the good old slap (but really not often).

But spit in the face?WTF.

40% were punished by rape...

Mental rape.

Makes me feel kind of good deep down. Never did much, other than the occasional yell or just that they were disappointed in my actions. I did a lot of good though, and never really ever got caught for anything if I ever did something wrong.

Grounding of the electronic persuasion.

I remember a few times she punished me for things I did a long time beforehand that I had already been punished for previously (we're talking a few years later, in one case). I know she wasn't thoroughly thinking about it, but you're basically teaching your kid that they can't escape their past omissions and that they should live in the shadow of their mistakes... kinda fucked up.

I just thought of something that isn't even too far out:

-destruction of your personal belongings

Did that ever happen to some of you?

Good one. Yes. Happened to moi.

Aside from like, actual physical child abuse from my dad, my mom and grandmother used to spank but they also did the soap in the mouth thing when we cussed. My grandmother used to have us stand in the corner with the soap in our mouths the whole time! It was so awful. When liquid soap was invented it pretty much was the worst thing that's ever happened.

And what about you?

No, not really...

She once destroyed an oil painting she did of me as a baby.

A gesture so overly dramatic and literary that i would have laughed at it if it would have happened in a film.

That sounds more like self-punishment.