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When I was 13, we got new neighbours. They had just one child, a boy five years younger than myself, but my main focus of the family was the mom, … Read more

Receiving your first spanking as a child is one thing, but administering such a punishment for the first time as a carer is another thing entirely, as Wendy found out … Read more

In the days when corporal punishment was far more common than it is now, quite a few parents allowed other adults to inflict a sore bottom on their offspring. One … Read more

When Helen and her friend June are caught smoking in school for the second time in less than a month, the remedy is the strap across their bottoms, followed by … Read more

My parents were generally very kind and loving and it was not often that corporal punishment was resorted to in our house. Nevertheless, this was the early 1950s and a … Read more

Daiyu is a mother-of-two from Singapore. At the time of the original interview, she was the mother of one little boy, who was seven years old. Singapore mothers, and Asian … Read more

When I was nine years old and growing up in a small Scottish town, we had a change of neighbour after the elderly gentleman I had known as Uncle Tom … Read more

I’ve seen a few references on your site to being spanked on a wet bottom, and how it hurts a lot more somehow than a dry tush. I can confirm … Read more

The degree of privacy afforded for spankings administered to children of the opposite sex certainly varied family by family, and even from mother to other relatives, as Jacob recalled when … Read more

Nowadays, any childminder who smacked the bottoms of the children in her charge would end up in court. But not that long ago, a well-spanked bum was a commonplace experience … Read more

Life on a working canal boat back in the ‘good old days’ was tough on bargee parents – and their children often got these adversities worked out on their bare … Read more

Back in the 80s my best friend was a girl called Latisha. I’m white, Latisha is black. Close interracial friendships were not that common back then but we always got … Read more

The childish games we play in our youth sometimes have a very adult dynamic beneath them, as Fiona found out when she and a girl friend decided to smack each … Read more

Intentions of being a progressive parent are one thing, but the reality of disciplining children in the real world can often cause mum or dad to change tack, as this … Read more

The birch was once a very commonplace instrument of corporal correction for the world’s children which fell out of popularity mostly due to the import of canes. However, it was … Read more

When I was in year three of primary school (i.e. eight years old) in 1960s Manchester, I had a particularly bad day in class. Throughout the morning, I played up … Read more

When I was a month or two short of 15, I started going out with Emma [named changed – Ed] who was about two years younger than me. Her parents … Read more

Quite a number of our correspondents have experiences of spankings by proxy when their own parents have been indisposed. Among them was Simon, who found resonance in an earlier story … Read more

Back in the ‘good old days’, when the teacher’s authority was unquestioned, the way in which they ran their classrooms was taken for granted, even in circumstances which might make … Read more

Sometimes, the effects of spanking their children can be confusing and worrying for parents, as Mike readily amids in this frank and open account of his experiences of fatherhood.

Often, grown-ups talking about spanking is more embarrassing for children than actually receiving it. Daniel remembers the humiliating way his mother referred publicly to the corporal punishment she administered to … Read more

When I was 10 and my brother David was seven, my parents took on a local neighbourhood girl called Linda to babysit us occasionally when they went out. Linda was … Read more