Kneeling on Rice

[AlHayatZween 2]

in reference to the thread title "Kneeling on Rice (and other alternative methods of corporeal punishment)" ...

an alternative method of corporeal punishment to consider .... getting married.

okay so i used a really old term ... sorry

[VanessaTony 3,567]

I am extremely slow it seems because I just noticed the typo in your thread title I'm sure you meant corporal punishment, not corporeal.. although seeing that corporeal means "having material or physical form or substance" it still kinda makes sense

[Minya's wife 25]

Sorry to hear that, Alien!

Minya, yes, i've heard of the beans. Here is my question: Did it leave any scars? Or say, if it was done to excess, could it leave scarring. Was it something specific from your parents' culture, or just their method.

Sorry for so many questions. i'm working on a story here, just trying to get the details in my mind. (If it is too painful to remember or write about, i will totally understand.)

Thank you all for sharing, all the same.

Also, please know that this is not about judgment... just accurate details. Thanks again.

Not it did/does not leave any scars....it is really just for a few minutes, like a time-out type of thing. There were other kids who had they same type of punishment when I was growing up, though I don't think it was a cultural thing....unless you count that my parents used beans instead of rice, since that is what they had more of on hand. What I described was really just a method to give me a 'pause' and to force me to think of my bad behavior. IMO, much more effective than being spanked. My parents did not use physical forms of punishment like spanking...but that was used on other kids around me. It was just the way parenting was done then. And in fact, it still is in that part of the world...there isn't the same type of social stigma as here, about physical punishment. Of course it is not taken to extremes, but parents there have no qualms about swatting a child on the backside once or twice if they misbehave. Its just the way they parent, and none of the kids grow up with scars, emotional or otherwise...just a good respect for the parents and adults in general. IMO, that is lacking in the youth of today. I should qualify that I'm not a parent, so I don't have tangible experience, just observations.

[thongd4me 69]

Smile when you say that!

[Minya's wife 25]

Smile when you say that!

When I say what, that I have no emotional or physical scars from being made to kneel on beans as a child? Here you go...

[thongd4me 69]

When I say what, that I have no emotional or physical scars from being made to kneel on beans as a child? Here you go...

Everybody has their own experience; when I think of what I went through in my childhood,

I don't think any physical punishment hurt as much as one incident when both of my parents

didn't believe that I was telling the truth. I didn't have a history of lying but they decided not to

believe me anyway. That didn't ruin my relationship with them but it gave me something to

think about.

[AlHayatZween 2]

Not it did/does not leave any scars....it is really just for a few minutes, like a time-out type of thing. There were other kids who had they same type of punishment when I was growing up, though I don't think it was a cultural thing....unless you count that my parents used beans instead of rice, since that is what they had more of on hand. What I described was really just a method to give me a 'pause' and to force me to think of my bad behavior. IMO, much more effective than being spanked. My parents did not use physical forms of punishment like spanking...but that was used on other kids around me. It was just the way parenting was done then. And in fact, it still is in that part of the world...there isn't the same type of social stigma as here, about physical punishment. Of course it is not taken to extremes, but parents there have no qualms about swatting a child on the backside once or twice if they misbehave. Its just the way they parent, and none of the kids grow up with scars, emotional or otherwise...just a good respect for the parents and adults in general. IMO, that is lacking in the youth of today. I should qualify that I'm not a parent, so I don't have tangible experience, just observations.

Okay, thanks!

Good to know!

I am extremely slow it seems because I just noticed the typo in your thread title I'm sure you meant corporal punishment, not corporeal.. although seeing that corporeal means "having material or physical form or substance" it still kinda makes sense

Oops...

Edited January 22, 2011 by AlHayatZween