How did/do your parents discipline you?

My mother was the softer approach: she told me to get to a corner or sit on the sofa to calm down, so when I sat there for a while and calmed down...I asked if I could read a book, that's how I became a bookworm, so it was good for something lol, my father would do that too but he put me down first (in words I mean) saying I was good for nothing and stuff like that, then ordering me to sit down somewhere and shut up.