September 28,2021

Good day friends! Today is the last Tuesday of the month. After few days, we will welcome another month again. Time swiftly flies. Three months to go, we will bid goodbye for this year and greet for another year.

Enough of my introductions. I don't know why my introductory is like that. ( pardon me ). For today's topic, I came up to this idea when I commented sis @Jinifer 's article.(sorry for the tag sis,hihi) That comment lead me to the memories when I was young on how our father disciplined us. As I have stated on my title, it's pretty obvious that my father (not my biological father) is a former military. We all know that military people are all strict and snappy in everything they do. My father vacated his job when he was being wounded on one of their mission. He was assigned in Mindanao area that time. He got shot on his thigh and my mother was very worried about him. My grandfather told my father to resign. My father was also a chick magnet back then. (That's what my mother told us) Maybe, that was also one the reasons why they asked him to resign his job. So, he followed my grandfather's order.

Okay, enough on the back story. Let us now proceed on how my father punished us when we committed mistakes. His way of disciplining his children.

1. Sack Punishment

The one who experienced this punishment was his own children. There was one time that my mother and father was doing a laundry that day. Back then, we don't have a faucet or water pump or artisan well in our house so we washed our clothes in the river. He told his oldest son to prepare lunch for them and bring it to them cause they can't go home early for they had plenty of clothes to washed. But their son forgot what his order. It was already passed 2 o'clock in the afternoon but there was no food came. My father was so mad for they were so hungry and at the same time exhausted. When they got home, they saw their son playing with other children. My father prepared a sack and called his son. Without any sermons he put his son on the sack and tied it with a rope. His son cried hard out of fear. But my father was not moved no matter how my mother stopped him. He was being enveloped with anger. He was not contented with what he did, he hanged his son who was already inside the sack and put smoke under the it. My mother was petrified that maybe their son will be suffocated inside. She can't tone down the anger of my father so she called her father, my grandfather. Good thing my father calmed when my grandfather came. My mother hurriedly untie the rope and open the sack. When their son was out, he was filled with sweat all over his body.

2. Salt and sand Punishment

I experienced this punishment when I was young. Me and sister was playing in the sewage. Our parents prohibited us on playing at that place especially when after rain. They said that the water is dirty after rain. But my sister and I were envious watching our playmates happily jumping on the water. We did not hold ourselves so we joined them. We were so ecstatic while playing with our friends when we hear the thunderous voice of our father calling us. We were already fearful for the reason that we already know that we were facing a bad situation. Our father was so mad at us. When we got home, after changing clothes, he called us to come in front of the altar. We saw salt scattered on the floor. He ordered us to kneel on the salt. We got no choice but to follow. When we kneel, we felt pain upon touching our knee to the salt. At first, the pain was bearable but as time passes it became excruciating. We remained in that position for almost two hours.

3. Chain Punishment

This is the punishment that I can't forget. I was in 5th grade at that time. My father told me not to go to the floating house for the reason that the sun of that day was so fiery. My mother was in our neighbor's house doing the laundry. When my father was gone to his work as pedicab driver, I sneakily went to the floating house. I thought that he will be home at afternoon. But it happened that he left something in the house so he went back. Then he saw me that I disobeyed his order. He got mad and called me in a ear-splitting voice. I was already trembling cause I knew that it would be bad. When I got home, I saw him holding the chain. As expected, he chained me in one columns of the house. I cried so hard but my mother was not there to free me. When my mother got home, that was the time that I was freed.

CLOSING THOUGHT

The three punishments mentioned above was some of the ways of the disciplinary actions of my father to us. Yes it was ferocious way of disciplining us but I can say that it also gave us lessons. Because of his way of punishing us, we became mindful of our actions. He didn't want us to become a disobedient child. Thus, if he ordered something, we should obey it or else we will face a horrific punishment. Though my father punished us like that, we didn't have hatred in our hearts for him. We still respects him. We know that he did that for our own sake. He didn't want us to grow undisciplined. Also, the reasons why we didn't hate him was that after the punishment, he explained to us our mistakes. I am still thankful because if my father didn't discipline us like that, we will not be the kind of person we are today.

So, how about you guys, what is the way of punishment your parents do when you commit mistakes? You can share it in the comment section.😉

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