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I Am A Strict Mom


Has anyone ever had a hairbrush wear out after a lot of years of use as a tool to correct misbehavior? I'm wondering what I should do with the brush I got from my own mom it's seen a lot of wear now and while it isn't the only one I use it has a lot of sentimental value to me. Perhaps it's time to retire it?
Kaylabryan · 36-40, F
My mom went thru several hairbrushes on me when I was young
Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@Kaylabryan lovely mom
@Kaylabryan Mine routinely broke the spanking yardstick. I didn't mind her doing that especially when it happened while it was in use because she would often let me off at that point.
Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@Alfred22 Nice
Madgirl · 26-30, F
i broke a hairbrush with my buttcheecks of steel
@Madgirl Send me a one sentence or even one word private message. Then I can write back and tell you why you might have wanted to tell us guys! It is interesting.
stick57 · 70-79, M
@Alfred22 duh maybe she doesn’t care too...you Troll
Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@Madgirl nice
Love to use my belt
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
My mom handed down her brush to my sister. She was the first to have kid's
MaryDreamilton · 46-50, F
@1olderguy20 Should of? What expression is that?

Also, what is a mim?
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
@Strictmother @MaryDreamilton he was talking about my mom
MaryDreamilton · 46-50, F
@smileylovesgaming Is "mim" another word for "mom"? I've never seen it before.
Carrie123abc · 46-50, F
Give it some new paint and then varnish and it'll be good as new. Don't throw out what works
AbbeyP · 70-79, F
My mum had a slipper she wore out
@AbbeyP Maybe one could say : Your Mum didn't wear her slipper (going) out but rather wore it out wearing you out!
HairbrushDiva · 31-35, F
@AbbeyP My mum used a slipper when she didn't use a hairbrush.
Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@AbbeyP let’s chat Abbey
MaryDreamilton · 46-50, F
I had my mum's hairbrush on my bare bottom a few times, but it didn't wear out. Mind you, it wasn't the only thing my mum used to spank me with.
MaryDreamilton · 46-50, F
@Musicman Believe me, the slipper is as common a spanking implement as the hairbrush or belt, or it was in the days when I was spanked regularly.
Musicman · 61-69, MVIP
@MaryDreamilton I just looked at your profile. You are from the UK. From what I read you are totally correct. In America they were not. UK also used the cane. In America we used a switch. It's all just minor differences
MaryDreamilton · 46-50, F
@Musicman I haven't been to America so I wouldn't know.
StrictStepmum · 46-50, F
A little wood paint and varnish will get it back to new

No use throwing out an effective implement
Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@StrictStepmum Definitely not
Maintenance of hairbrush or any implement is important
stick57 · 70-79, M
@StrictStepmum yes little elbow grease
Strictgram · 70-79, C
I'd get a Lexan paddle. Good sting without heavy marking.
dimmerdork · 61-69, M
@Strictgram Several years ago, I mentored a young lady through her college career, and her bottom became well acquainted with my Lexan paddle, or, as she called it, “that horrible, evil, awful THING!!!”
SW-User
@dimmerdork A college student? Wasn't she a little old to have that done to her???
dimmerdork · 61-69, M
@SW-User Her behavior dictated otherwise…..
AmericanaChick · 22-25, F
It looks like it's still in pretty good shape.
Silverhair71 · 51-55, M
Kathryn I agree keep the hairbrush just use some wooden stain on it and put a protective coating over it and it will be used on many new generations of kids naughty bare bottoms
stick57 · 70-79, M
@MsSwan cute
Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@MsSwan Lovely 😊
anderst · 46-50, M
I think I have a hairbrush allergy 😂
ArtieKat · M
Although this post is nearly 5 years old, the brush looks fit-for-purpose still!
Most of the "wear" comes from the effects of washing the brush. I know it is more appealing to think that the bare spots on the spanking surface came from direct contact with our bottoms. It sure felt that way. But in most cases the surface changes are derived from repeated contact with hot water (bathbrushes) or with ammonia-laden soapy water (oily hairbrushes).
Badseed · 61-69, M
Perhaps washing hairbrushes dates back to the era when head lice were more of a thing.
coralstrand · 51-55, M
@Badseed more likely to wear out if used for spanking
Badseed · 61-69, M
@Alfred22 I'm not so sure. If the brush is used on bare skin, the skin oils might gradually dissolve some of the varnish over time.
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HairbrushDiva · 31-35, F
@chockaholic2020 Why has your comment been hidden? It's not offensive.
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HairbrushDiva · 31-35, F
@chockaholic2020 I've just looked in your profile and it says it may contain inappropriate content. Is it anything to do with that?
smiler2012 · 61-69
@Kathryn05 rather an old fashion and dated idea today but my nanna use too use one on my dad when he was being a bugger and that was often by all accounts lol
Nevertooold · 56-60, M
Just retire it in The Hairbrush Hall of Fame!!!!
Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
Retire it and get a new one
A great history
MissyChrissy · 18-21, F
Hello Ma'am, I just messaged you. Can you please respond?
F you didnt get it maybe it went to the requests folder.
Birgit12 · 56-60, F
Kathryn I have the hairbrush of my mom as well and it's used still on my daughters botties a lot
Also yours is not looking that it has to be retired. It just can reden a lot of botties if needed
anderst · 46-50, M
@Birgit12 ouch
Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@Birgit12 good 😊
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Crazychick · 36-40, F
I've been spanked many times with a wooden hairbrush but it never wore out.
TommyBoy · 31-35, M
@Crazychick I don't doubt that at all! Steady application will do that with lower quality brushes lol.
Strictmother · 46-50, F
@Crazychick They never do
Crazychick · 36-40, F
@Strictmother Good. I don't want it to.
The hairbrush is mom's favorite here. Best way to describe hers is small but NASTY feeling Ma'am! She has two different ones though
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@emilydruzen14 what else gets used?
chrisCA · M
@emilydruzen14 Why two?
I wish I had my Mom's. She moved during my permissive parenting period. When I reverted I thought it would be great to tell my kids this is the same hairbrush that grandma spanked your mom with. But alas-- it was apparently lost in the move.
@chrisCA It would have been sobering
stick57 · 70-79, M
@Kathryn05 brings back sore butts
@beckychandler You can bet on that. Prior to such an experience, a mom's or dad's spankings were very abstract. Afterwards they are all too real!
ThatMusgraveWoman · 70-79, F
I used the same brush my mother used on me. I still have it in a drawer, and wonder if my daughter wants it as a souvenir. It was my granny's, so no doubt my mother also felt it - a sort of family tradition passed from mother to daughter. So far, my daughter has no girls so maybe that tradition will end.
ThatMusgraveWoman · 70-79, F
@Tripdelta4 That is her choice, not mine!
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TommyBoy · 31-35, M
@ThatMusgraveWoman That's actually really sweet :)
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Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@Kathryn05 lovely
Was well deserved
@MissBrittany You and your Mom both used the same hairbrush! But on different parts of you. Great ambiguity when you say "Unfortunately so did my Mom!" Got to love those double meanings like when parents say "I am going to get to the bottom of this!"
Anna96 · 26-30, F
No no no, Ma'am. Keep it as a treasured keepsake. It symbolizes your mom's love in that she used it as a learning tool that probably brought her more tears than it did you. That's a mom's love and true sacrifice.
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stick57 · 70-79, M
@Stephanieuk pass it on too those u used it on
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1olderguy20 · 61-69, M
@johnsonjelena45 I assume to be used on her by him
jennypenny · 70-79, F
There is very little wear for a brush on a bottom. The main wear is for the bottom!
stick57 · 70-79, M
@jennypenny yes I bet
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TommyBoy · 31-35, M
@jennypenny Sounds about right!
Strictmother · 46-50, F
They never wear out. They "do" the wearing out.
Strictmother · 46-50, F
@Strictmother Exactly.
BrattyMel · 31-35, F
My girlfriend needs to get a good brush 😍
TommyBoy · 31-35, M
@BrattyMel Granted, the lines it left on my bottom were amazing lol. But I'm more of a fan of the belt. That snapping sound :)
BrattyMel · 31-35, F
The marks are one of my favorite parts. We are gonna try out a belt this weekend. @TommyBoy
TommyBoy · 31-35, M
@BrattyMel Oh good luck!!
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Annie1899 · 36-40, F
Hang on to it. Maybe someday you'll pass it down to one of your kids.
@Annie1899 “When my mother had her first child my grandmother visited her in the hospital and gave her a wooden spanking paddle. 'Some day you will need this,' she told my mother. I heard my mother tell this story again and again throughout my childhood to justify her use of corporal punishment. As a child, I was determined never to spank my children. 'Some day you will understand,' my mother told me.” ~ Kathleen Berchelmann, MD,in “To Spank or Not to Spank” @ Catholic Mom http://bit.ly/2vGITfq

Dr. Berchelmann is a pediatrician who in this article says when she became a mom she did indeed spank, but later decided it was not for her. But, in the short article she goes over the spanking research in a fair objective way, which is never seen in mainstream media articles on corporal punishment of children.

I jumped for joy when Dr. Berchelmann mentioned that “The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) feels that 'Disciplinary spanking by parents, when properly used, can be an effective component in an overall disciplinary plan with children.'”

The ACP, although an organization of some 60,000 pediatricians and pediatric researchers, is totally ignored when we get all the news reports which more than imply that the “science is in” on spanking and it is the worst possible thing a parent could do.

Last January the ACP issued a warning about the No-Spank fake research: https://similarworlds.com/2327115-I-Am-A-Strict-Mom/596949-Recently-there-has-been-a-tsunami-of-reports-in
stick57 · 70-79, M
@Annie1899 give to your daughter
Badseed · 61-69, M
@beckychandler The "American College of Pediatricians" is merely a handful of socially-conservative pediatricians. This ersatz "professional organization" is so tiny their entire national membership could probably meet in a church basement. They refuse to divulge their actual membership numbers. The media (with the exception of Fox News) ignores them for good reason. They constitute an attempt to confuse the public into thinking they are the pediatric profession's national organization when they aren't.

You confused the ACP with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the bonafide, 66,000-strong, professional association with which the ACP clearly hoped you'd confuse them. The AAP, the real professional association of pediatricians, took a position against all forms of corporal punishment of children a couple decades ago:

"Because of the negative consequences
of spanking and because it has been
demonstrated to be no more effective than
other approaches for managing undesired
behavior in children, the American Academy
of Pediatrics recommends that parents be
encouraged and assisted in developing methods
other than spanking in response to undesired
behavior."

-American Association of Pediatrics policy
paper RE9740, April 1998, pp 723-728
.


The tiny ACP hold predictable "traditional values" positions on a variety of issues, including gay parenting, gay marriage, adoption by gay couples, pornography, keeping marijuana illegal, "abstinence-only" sex education, "therapy" to "cure" gay teenagers, gender dysphoria in children, abortion, and spanking - most of which differ from positions by the 66,000-member AAP. And by adopting a name similar to the AAP, the ACP strives to give their political-agenda-driven views the appearance of a professional imprimatur they plainly lack.

The myth-busting site, snopes.com, calls the ACP "an official-sounding but fringe group of politically motivated pediatricians.":
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/americas-pediatricians-gender-kids/

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the ACP as "a fringe anti-LGBT hate group that masquerades as the premier U.S. association of pediatricians.":
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-college-pediatricians

They have even been accused of deliberately misrepresenting research by the author of such research:

Statement from NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., in Response to the American College of Pediatricians - April 15, 2010

"It is disturbing for me to see special interest groups distort my scientific observations to make a point against homosexuality. The American College of Pediatricians pulled language out of context from a book I wrote in 2006 to support an ideology that can cause unnecessary anguish and encourage prejudice. The information they present is misleading and incorrect, and it is particularly troubling that they are distributing it in a way that will confuse school children and their parents."

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110727115017/http://www.nih.gov/about/director/04152010_statement_ACP.htm

Here is another example:
http://www.citypages.com/news/university-of-minnesota-professors-research-hijacked-6725473


"The American College of Pediatricians" is a ruse, attempting to fool the public, Becky Chandler. And you fell for it. Ironically, if a child engaged in the kind of deceptive behaviors which are the ACP's stock and trade, the ACP would recommend that the child be given a good spanking. 🙄

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Looks like my moms hairbrush.
Kathryn05 · 41-45, F
@BeckyStone It was my mom's hairbrush Becky! ;)
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Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@HairbrushDiva lovely 😊
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Badseed · 61-69, M
@Tripdelta4 What happened to your mother's spanking hairbrush?

If you were to run across it now, I'll bet you would marvel at how much smaller it is in reality than it was in your memories!
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Badseed · 61-69, M
Really really old hairbrushes, from over a century ago, tend to be useless for brushing hair because their bristles have gradually disintegrated to little stubs. But as long has the wood hasn't split, their reverse sides are still servicable as spanking implements.

I've heard of family hair brushes being passed down as gifts at baby showers.
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Phoebe1990 · 31-35, F
It should go to the Smithsonian museum of American artifacts.
SW-User
I got mine from mo too. Lol
marciamom · F
I would favor a specific purpose implement...
anderst · 46-50, M
@marciamom ouch
@marciamom When a specific purpose implement is visible around the house, it sends a message: "Don't misbehave or else you will get this!"
That message has an impact.
anderst · 46-50, M
@Alfred22 yes you are right, and it’s not a good message
marciamom · F
I prefer single purpose implements! Message me if you can!
SW-User
@marciamom Such as a paddle perhaps?
dimmerdork · 61-69, M
@marciamom What sort of “single purpose implements” do you prefer? PM if you’d like to discuss...🙂
chrisCA · M
Maybe keep it for some adult playtime with your partner? 😉
Joker · 36-40, M
Looks like there's a lot of life left in it! Don't retire it.
Kathryn05 · 41-45, F
@chrisCA Indeed! I would be fascinated about the stories of how my own mother got herself into trouble
Joker · 36-40, M
@Kathryn05 and we would be fascinated by your reasons for getting it too!😬
@Kathryn05 Interesting that she never shared them with you. Did she ever say why she didn't?
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Birgit12 · 56-60, F
@Hjulle11
Yes my girls have strict boundaries
Badseed · 61-69, M
These were two brushes purportedly used on two sisters growing up, one of whom inherited them and sent me this scan.

The smaller brush was for when they were younger, and shows more visible wear. The larger, nine inch long brush was for their tween and teen ages.

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ThatMusgraveWoman · 70-79, F
Now there's a familiar sight!
StrictSouthernHOH · 46-50, M
Your kids might prefer to burn it now, but later when they are grown you might want to pass it on so it can do the same good for your grandchildren as it did for you and your kids.
Kathryn05 · 41-45, F
@StrictSouthernHOH I tell them that now and they all look at me like I'm from mars :D
StrictSouthernHOH · 46-50, M
@Kathryn05 Ask them in a few years when their bottoms no longer have bull's eyes painted on them. Right now they probably can't imagine spanking their own kids, but in about 10 years they may change their minds.
I bet that there was some smirking. I would have enjoyed seeing the belt that left its outline, complete with the round red rings where there were holes for the buckle. My mother mentioned it more than once.
Pop0159 · 61-69, M
Perhaps save it for spacial times .. .. they know they really messed up when they are told tonget the "old hairbrush for this one" .. .. .. At some point you may want one to hand down to each of your children.. .. ..
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Noway345 · M
So that's your moms old hairbrush. Very impressive!

 
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