A splash of spanking

The most unusual spanking I ever got was when I was six years old and went swimming a the house of one of my best friends, a girl called Lenore. … Read more

First time with the belt

Growing up as the child of two secondary school teachers, it was never in doubt that I was expected to do well at school.  My parents weren’t super strict, but … Read more

Sore bottom in the summertime

It was the summer vacation and I was doing the usual thing that most 14-year-old girls do during a break from school – nothing. My days mostly consisted of hanging … Read more

Reckoning for shoplifter

I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s in northern England, in a predominantly working class city. My father worked on the docks and my mother essentially raised us.  I … Read more

Bare bottoms in class

Contrary to what many believe, some children did get their bare bottoms smacked in school. I know, because I witnessed one such punishment myself, administered to two boys in front … Read more

Making a meal of it

I grew up in the 1970s in the south of England. My mother had me when she was considerably older than most mums and gave birth at 30 years old. … Read more

An own goal

At the end of our street was a quite large patch of grass, where my friends and I played football. Adjacent was a bungalow where a lady called Miss Cripps … Read more

Real spanking experiences

I read recently that someone doubted the truth of stories of corporal punishment experienced by girls at school beyond primary school, suggesting that these were actually the fertile imagination of … Read more

Roasting in the kitchen

As a young boy growing up in Ireland, I was no stranger to a trip over my mum’s knee with my trousers and underpants taken down for a dose of … Read more

In the fitting room

On my 13th birthday, what I wanted more than anything was a pair of Wrangler jeans. Of course, I had perfectly good jeans already – but they were knock-off brands … Read more

Mum finishes it (audio)

FREE AUDIO: When Lucy and her sister squabbled as children, their mother often resorted to settling such arguments with a sore bottom for each of her daughters. This audio story … Read more

On the bare bottom (audio)

The experience of seeing a young playmate getting a maternal spanking for wetting her underpants is one which this anonymous contributor recalls vividly, even today.

On smacking at seven (audio)

The following remarks about domestic discipline were originally collected by John and Elizabeth Newson, a husband and wife team of psychologists, who undertook an extensive study of child development drawing … Read more

Paint it red

From a mother’s point of view, discipline matters. I learned early on that to be too lenient with children does not pay off. Being a stay-at-home mom with four kids … Read more

Nanny (audio)

This story takes us right back to the 1940s, when a little girl’s dining room prank ended with an introduction to the dreaded ‘Board of Education’.

Growing up right (audio)

The following memories are drawn from posts on an internet forum set up to support a BBC project called ‘Scotland on Film’ in 2003. Here, several posters recount their memories … Read more

Matrons remembered (audio)

The following is an exchange between two contributors to the long-defunct Maman mailing list, regarding that formidable figure, the prep school matron…

June’s promise to Mum

When I was about 13, my mum got a job at a local factory working late shifts. My dad regularly worked away, so on these occasions I was looked after … Read more

Smoking hot hairbrush

When I was 14 or 15, in the early 1970s, I had secretly taken up smoking. I thought I was pretty grown-up – until the day my grandmother caught me … Read more

The old remedy

I hadn’t been spanked for quite a few years but when I was about 15, I had quite a few months of being mouthy and disrespectful. I would get grounded, … Read more

Breast is best (audio)

The intimacy of motherhood has many sides, from stern discipline to loving comfort, as William found out when he was babysat by family friend Mrs Carter.

Smack bottom time

I was brought up in the 1960s, when smack bottoms – as they were called then, at least in Britain – were an acceptable and common form of punishment for … Read more

In Sarah’s hands

The most embarrassing corporal punishment I ever got was when I was 11. My mother was just starting to prepare me for my spanking, which had been coming both for … Read more

Sex – and then the belt

Spankings were very common in our house during the late 1970s and early 80s, and were always administered my mother. A large, heavy leather strap – similar to a razor … Read more

Watching in school

In British primary schools in the early 1960s, it wasn’t uncommon for teachers to spank children publicly in class in the same way they might expect to be chastised by … Read more

Hairbrush for a runaway

I’m now 37 years old and grew up in the neighbourhoods around the New Zealand city of Dunedin. I was spanked by my mum until the age of about seven … Read more

A rhyme for naughty children

I love your site. I grew up in South Africa during the 1970s and corporal punishment was a normal part of everyday life across the ethnicities. We children knew that … Read more

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