Childhood

Parents do the darnedest things when trying to teach their kids a lesson. Someone recently <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cqseq1/whats_the_strangest_punishment_your_parents_ever/" target="_blank">asked Reddit</a>: &quot;What&#39;s the strangest punishment your parents ever gave you?&quot; Here are 21 examples&mdash;some funny and creative, others straight-up horrifying (do not try some of these at home, parents!).Whether or not these people learned from their past crimes, they&#39;ll certainly never forget the time:1.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/zarfytezz1/">zarfytezz1</a> was forced to smell dog breath?!<blockquote> Forced to smell dog breath. Because &quot;If we have to deal with the filth from your mouth, then you have to deal with the filth from its mouth.&quot; I got this on numerous occasions. It sounds silly at first, but it was anything but at the time. I begged them to give me anything but that. </blockquote>2.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MAcsSNAcs/">MAcsSNAcs</a> had to sleep in the dark:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> Not really a strange punishment, but it turned out strangely I think. When I was probably 5 or 6, something happened (literally can&#39;t remember what I did to deserve the punishment) that caused my parents to send me to my room with no lights allowed on and the door closed. I&#39;d never been able to sleep with the door closed and at least a light on in the hall or something til then. This time? I just went to sleep after a while in there with no lights, and that was the last time I needed lights on or the door open when I went to bed. Worked out well from my point of view IMO. </blockquote>3.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mswhatsit_32/">mswhatsit_32</a> lost library privileges:<blockquote> My parents routinely took away my library card when I did something worth punishing. So I memorized it. When they caught on they refused to go to the library with me for the duration of my punishment. So I started volunteering at the library once a week so they had to take me. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>4.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/laterdude/">laterdude</a> had to edit his dad&#39;s videos:<blockquote> Dad made me splice together his old 8mm vacation films into a Vine style highlight reel after I hurt his feelings by refusing to see Chef with him. </blockquote>5.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tourettes_on_tuesday/">tourettes_on_tuesday</a> lost floppy disc privileges:<blockquote> When I was 10, mom would take my NES games for a week. When I was 13, mom would take my SNES games for a week. When I was 16, mom would take my BLANK FLOPPY DISCS for a week. I didn&#39;t explain the mistake to her until I moved out. </blockquote>6.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Rust_Dawg/">Rust_Dawg</a> had to live their nightmare:<blockquote> I was deathly afraid of my basement, and the threat for not adhering to lights-out time was being forced to sleep in the basement for the night. Anyway, I forget what I was doing but I was up to no good one night, probably reading comic books with a flashlight or something. I got sent to sleep in the basement and was pretty much up all night being super scared. It was threatened a lot but I think it only actually happened once. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>7.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Angsty_Potatos/">Angsty_Potatos</a> was punished for cursing with cursing?!<blockquote> If I cursed, my mom would make me go into the bathroom and say every curse I knew while looking in the mirror so &quot;I could see how ugly I made myself look while cursing&quot;. Well, I learned that if I wanted to curse with impunity all I had to do was say &quot;A*s&quot; and get sent to the bathroom where I could say any curse I could think of, punishment free, for as long as I wanted. lol </blockquote>8.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fatbean100/">fatbean100</a> had to be late to school:<blockquote> I got a bad grade on a math test in elementary school. As my dad dropped me off for the day, I quickly told him he needed to sign something (the test). He was SO FURIOUS, that even though I was already late for school, he drove the 2 miles back home, spanked me and made me walk to school. I was soooo late. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>9.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/genetically__odd/">genetically__odd</a> had waste time and tennis balls:<blockquote> I had to fill cut-open tennis balls with pennies. I&rsquo;m still... not sure what that was about. I was innocent btw. </blockquote>10.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/_Benjameme/">_Benjameme</a> got the fear of birds put in to him:<blockquote> If I misbehaved in a car, my mom would lower the window and say that a bird would fly in if I&rsquo;d continue to misbehave... </blockquote>11.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Dusty_Muffin_11/">Dusty_Muffin_11</a> was forced in to old-fashioned face-time:<blockquote> Me and my sister were fighting after i tried to steal some of her chili fries and she stabbed me with a fork. Dad took us out back and tied us up face to face with a rope. Told us when you figure out how to work together you will be able to get out. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>12.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/malificide15/">malificide15</a> was forced into solitary confinement:<blockquote> I would get grounded to the front porch because when I was grounded in my room I would entertain myself with literally anything, even lint from the carpet. So my dad finally had enough and made me sit on the front porch and I wasnt allowed to talk to anyone except to say that im grounded and cant talk </blockquote>13.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Breastfedbitch/">Breastfedbitch</a> got the diaper treatment:<blockquote> My mom was pretty old school so she wasn&rsquo;t against spanking which was my usual punishment. Strangest was when I made fun of my sister for wetting the bed, calling her a baby and stuff. My mom wasn&rsquo;t happy because I was making her cry and setting her back. So as a punishment she made me wear a pull up whenever my sister had too. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>14.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lordofwar28/">lordofwar28</a> went to the &quot;hospital&quot;:<blockquote> For some reason my parents allowed my brother and I to have a very basic bow and arrow which we were allowed to shoot at a cardboard box in the backyard. I, being very young and very dumb, crawled into the box while my brother was firing. Parents were not pleased and to demonstrate how dangerous what I had done was, they made me lay on the couch for the whole day and pretend I was in a hospital bed. </blockquote>15.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TARxHEELx23/">TARxHEELx23</a> went to &quot;prison&quot;:<blockquote> My mom always told me I would end up in prison. As punishment, she would make me sit in time out under an office desk with a slat back chair turned upside down on top so the back covered the opening like bars. Come dinner time she fed me hard rolls and water because &quot;That&#39;s what they serve in prison.&quot; I found out years later, while not good food, prison food is much better than hard rolls and water. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>16.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/koreahetalia/">koreahetalia</a> got the &quot;buck rag&quot; and it&#39;s as bad as it sounds:<blockquote> The &quot;Buck Rag.&quot; Still have nightmares. For those who don&#39;t know, a <a href="http://www.goatview.com/september5dweezilbuckrag.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">buck rag</a> is a rag that&#39;s been rubbed all over a sweaty, oily, piss-soaked billy goat in rut, and is often used for goat breeding purposes. In our Alabama town, it became popular for parents to use these to punish children. Goat farmers would even sell the rags for the purpose. Basically the teenager would be taken outside, and the parents would remove the buck rag from the jar, drape it over the kid&#39;s face, and tie a knot in the back. Plenty of room to breathe, no room to avoid the smell. I never saw why everyone feared it so much until my parents gave it to me one night for sneaking around with my boyfriend at night. I puked. A lot. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>17.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/joshuar9476/">joshuar9476</a> got robbed for robbing:<blockquote> When I was 16 I got caught shoplifting a cd. Thankfully they didn&#39;t press charges but my father confiscated every possession I owned short of the essentials (Mattress, blankets, clothes), and ironically, a $200 police scanner, still in the box, he didn&#39;t know about. And that&#39;s how I got into listening to police scanners. Edit: Scanner was shoplifted as well and I never shoplifted again after getting caught. </blockquote>18.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/xero_art/">xero_art</a> lost the right to read:<blockquote> I was not allowed to read unless it was specifically for school. </blockquote>19.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/K3Elisa/">K3Elisa</a> was forced to skip mom&#39;s cooking:<blockquote> Withheld dinner &amp; I was only allowed to have bread and butter. My mother is a terrible cook so I was super okay with this. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>20.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/proptooccupy/">proptooccupy</a> got the wet iPhone treatment:<blockquote> When I was little, my mom&#39;s go-to punishment was to make me kneel on uncooked rice for about 15 minutes. Had to keep a straight back or else the time was increased. She did this because that was how her mom punished her and her brother. She eventually stopped using this punishment after she set some clear boundaries with my very controlling grandmother. She never felt right making me do it. My little sister never had to go through it...I kind of resented that for a while, but eventually was grateful she didn&#39;t experience it. </blockquote>21.) <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CDC_/">CDC_</a> was tortured with sports:<blockquote> I was always more the artist type. Didn&#39;t much care for throwing the football around or working on cars. I wasn&#39;t belittled or anything, my family let me do me. But my step-father was an evil genius and when I did something that was considered a minor infraction he&#39;d give me the option of either going to bed early or staying up till my normal bedtime but having to watch sports with him in the living room. And I couldn&#39;t just zone out or read. He&#39;d sit there and make chit chat about the game or try explaining the rules or the players stats or something else I couldn&#39;t have cared less about. I&#39;m 34 and we still laugh about that sometimes. Sh*t was brutal. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>As a kid, the weirdest punishment I ever faced was being forced to finish a whole plate of pancakes after I found a long strand of hair in one. Guess it could&#39;ve been worse!<div className="ad-splitter"></div>

People are sharing unusual punishments their parents gave them.

Parents do the darnedest things when trying to teach their kids a lesson. Someone recently asked Reddit: &quot;What&#39;s the strangest punishment your parents ever gave you?&quot; Here are 21 examples&mdash;some funny and creative, others straight-up horrifying (do not try some of these at home, parents!).Whether or not these people learned from their past crimes, they&#39;ll certainly never forget the time:1.) zarfytezz1 was forced to smell dog breath?! Forced to smell dog breath. Because &quot;If we have to deal with the filth from your mouth, then you have to deal with the filth from its mouth.&quot; I got this on numerous occasions. It sounds silly at first, but it was anything but at the time. I begged them to give me anything but that. 2.) MAcsSNAcs had to sleep in the dark: Not really a strange punishment, but it turned out strangely I think. When I was probably 5 or 6, something happened (literally can&#39;t remember what I did to deserve the punishment) that caused my parents to send me to my room with no lights allowed on and the door closed. I&#39;d never been able to sleep with the door closed and at least a light on in the hall or something til then. This time? I just went to sleep after a while in there with no lights, and that was the last time I needed lights on or the door open when I went to bed. Worked out well from my point of view IMO. 3.) mswhatsit_32 lost library privileges: My parents routinely took away my library card when I did something worth punishing. So I memorized it. When they caught on they refused to go to the library with me for the duration of my punishment. So I started volunteering at the library once a week so they had to take me. 4.) laterdude had to edit his dad&#39;s videos: Dad made me splice together his old 8mm vacation films into a Vine style highlight reel after I hurt his feelings by refusing to see Chef with him. 5.) tourettes_on_tuesday lost floppy disc privileges: When I was 10, mom would take my NES games for a week. When I was 13, mom would take my SNES games for a week. When I was 16, mom would take my BLANK FLOPPY DISCS for a week. I didn&#39;t explain the mistake to her until I moved out. 6.) Rust_Dawg had to live their nightmare: I was deathly afraid of my basement, and the threat for not adhering to lights-out time was being forced to sleep in the basement for the night. Anyway, I forget what I was doing but I was up to no good one night, probably reading comic books with a flashlight or something. I got sent to sleep in the basement and was pretty much up all night being super scared. It was threatened a lot but I think it only actually happened once. 7.) Angsty_Potatos was punished for cursing with cursing?! If I cursed, my mom would make me go into the bathroom and say every curse I knew while looking in the mirror so &quot;I could see how ugly I made myself look while cursing&quot;. Well, I learned that if I wanted to curse with impunity all I had to do was say &quot;A*s&quot; and get sent to the bathroom where I could say any curse I could think of, punishment free, for as long as I wanted. lol 8.) fatbean100 had to be late to school: I got a bad grade on a math test in elementary school. As my dad dropped me off for the day, I quickly told him he needed to sign something (the test). He was SO FURIOUS, that even though I was already late for school, he drove the 2 miles back home, spanked me and made me walk to school. I was soooo late. 9.) genetically__odd had waste time and tennis balls: I had to fill cut-open tennis balls with pennies. I&rsquo;m still... not sure what that was about. I was innocent btw. 10.) _Benjameme got the fear of birds put in to him: If I misbehaved in a car, my mom would lower the window and say that a bird would fly in if I&rsquo;d continue to misbehave... 11.) Dusty_Muffin_11 was forced in to old-fashioned face-time: Me and my sister were fighting after i tried to steal some of her chili fries and she stabbed me with a fork. Dad took us out back and tied us up face to face with a rope. Told us when you figure out how to work together you will be able to get out. 12.) malificide15 was forced into solitary confinement: I would get grounded to the front porch because when I was grounded in my room I would entertain myself with literally anything, even lint from the carpet. So my dad finally had enough and made me sit on the front porch and I wasnt allowed to talk to anyone except to say that im grounded and cant talk 13.) Breastfedbitch got the diaper treatment: My mom was pretty old school so she wasn&rsquo;t against spanking which was my usual punishment. Strangest was when I made fun of my sister for wetting the bed, calling her a baby and stuff. My mom wasn&rsquo;t happy because I was making her cry and setting her back. So as a punishment she made me wear a pull up whenever my sister had too. 14.) lordofwar28 went to the &quot;hospital&quot;: For some reason my parents allowed my brother and I to have a very basic bow and arrow which we were allowed to shoot at a cardboard box in the backyard. I, being very young and very dumb, crawled into the box while my brother was firing. Parents were not pleased and to demonstrate how dangerous what I had done was, they made me lay on the couch for the whole day and pretend I was in a hospital bed. 15.) TARxHEELx23 went to &quot;prison&quot;: My mom always told me I would end up in prison. As punishment, she would make me sit in time out under an office desk with a slat back chair turned upside down on top so the back covered the opening like bars. Come dinner time she fed me hard rolls and water because &quot;That&#39;s what they serve in prison.&quot; I found out years later, while not good food, prison food is much better than hard rolls and water. 16.) koreahetalia got the &quot;buck rag&quot; and it&#39;s as bad as it sounds: The &quot;Buck Rag.&quot; Still have nightmares. For those who don&#39;t know, a buck rag is a rag that&#39;s been rubbed all over a sweaty, oily, piss-soaked billy goat in rut, and is often used for goat breeding purposes. In our Alabama town, it became popular for parents to use these to punish children. Goat farmers would even sell the rags for the purpose. Basically the teenager would be taken outside, and the parents would remove the buck rag from the jar, drape it over the kid&#39;s face, and tie a knot in the back. Plenty of room to breathe, no room to avoid the smell. I never saw why everyone feared it so much until my parents gave it to me one night for sneaking around with my boyfriend at night. I puked. A lot. 17.) joshuar9476 got robbed for robbing: When I was 16 I got caught shoplifting a cd. Thankfully they didn&#39;t press charges but my father confiscated every possession I owned short of the essentials (Mattress, blankets, clothes), and ironically, a $200 police scanner, still in the box, he didn&#39;t know about. And that&#39;s how I got into listening to police scanners. Edit: Scanner was shoplifted as well and I never shoplifted again after getting caught. 18.) xero_art lost the right to read: I was not allowed to read unless it was specifically for school. 19.) K3Elisa was forced to skip mom&#39;s cooking: Withheld dinner &amp; I was only allowed to have bread and butter. My mother is a terrible cook so I was super okay with this. 20.) proptooccupy got the wet iPhone treatment: When I was little, my mom&#39;s go-to punishment was to make me kneel on uncooked rice for about 15 minutes. Had to keep a straight back or else the time was increased. She did this because that was how her mom punished her and her brother. She eventually stopped using this punishment after she set some clear boundaries with my very controlling grandmother. She never felt right making me do it. My little sister never had to go through it...I kind of resented that for a while, but eventually was grateful she didn&#39;t experience it. 21.) CDC_ was tortured with sports: I was always more the artist type. Didn&#39;t much care for throwing the football around or working on cars. I wasn&#39;t belittled or anything, my family let me do me. But my step-father was an evil genius and when I did something that was considered a minor infraction he&#39;d give me the option of either going to bed early or staying up till my normal bedtime but having to watch sports with him in the living room. And I couldn&#39;t just zone out or read. He&#39;d sit there and make chit chat about the game or try explaining the rules or the players stats or something else I couldn&#39;t have cared less about. I&#39;m 34 and we still laugh about that sometimes. Sh*t was brutal. As a kid, the weirdest punishment I ever faced was being forced to finish a whole plate of pancakes after I found a long strand of hair in one. Guess it could&#39;ve been worse!

Parents do the darnedest things when trying to teach their kids a lesson. Someone recently asked Reddit: &quot;What&#39;s the strangest punishment your parents ever gave you?&quot; Here are 21 examples&mdash;some funny and creative, others...