Interesting factoid Growing up in Tasmania, being grounded was not a thing inflicted on me. If I done wrong, then I received a thrashing. I am not sure if it is a thing here in Australia, being grounded.
@Gusman Seemed to come into our house when I was about 16. Although I always say my Father beat me with a 4x2 with a nail sticking out the end. He held it by that end of course, but I kept on forgetting to mention that:)
@Zeusdelight Well all those before laws came in to stop hitting their children. My Mother was sadistic in her beating of me. Most likely because her Mother - My Grandmother was sadistic in the beating of her. My Mother divorced, her Mother came to look after the children. She was more sadistic than my Mother. So it seems what ever was meted out to each generation, carried through. Until laws began to curb the sadism. That is not to say that beating of children has stopped. We know it still goes on. Back when I was young, there was no recourse to the beatings. It was allowed, encouraged, to instill compliance and discipline. Failed miserably in my case. Rebellious, obstinant child that I was. The more I was beaten, the more rebellious I was.
@Gusman I salute you! My mom tried to hit me with a big hair brush & when she swung at me I caught her throwing arm with my left hand & took the hair brush out of her hand & threw it out a kitchen window (it was closed so I broke it) & told her that if she ever raised a hand against me she'd go out the window instead of a hair brush. Never happened again. Btw I didn't pay for the window.
@Gusman She wasn't a bad mother, but she had a temper. So did my dad. I inherited both of their tempers. To give you an example, a DH in high school picked a fight with me. He was 2x my size, but its not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog, he broke my nose and I broke 6 of his ribs. Ended his basketball career in high school.