Fathers

When I was 11 years old, I got into trouble for talking during my math class. I didn’t get punished at home for this but the teacher had let my … Read more

One day, when I was 10 years old, I decided to paint a pair of my father’s dress shoes with some white paint I came across. I’m not sure why … Read more

It was a summer evening and I was getting ready for bed. Mom told me to take a bath and then put on my pyjamas. Usually at this point, Mom … Read more

This story does not concern me, but a friend of mine I will call Peter, whom I know from my local sauna. Peter told us about this spanking, which happened … Read more

This is my memory of a spanking I got in 1957, when I was just five years old. We were not a very well-off family and my parents had few … Read more

My parents hardly ever used corporal punishment when I was growing up, but I do remember one memorable spanking I got from my father in the mid-1990s, when I was … Read more

My middle son was naughtier than both of his brothers put together, and unfortunately this meant that he did regularly find himself with a sore bottom.  Right up until he … Read more

I am a UK-based father of three boys, and regularly smacked their bottoms when they were growing up. While I always had a genuine reason for smacking them, such as … Read more

My daughter Rachel was something of a brat growing up – she always seemed to have an attitude, never did as she was told, misbehaved all the time – and … Read more

I’ve just finished reading your wonderful story The naughty girls’ medicine, and I was struck how similar your correspondent’s experience of childhood discipline was to my own. My older sister … Read more

I grew up in a working class family during the 1980s. Although corporal punishment was being increasingly discouraged by the parenting magazines etc, the reality was that a lot of … Read more

When I was a little girl, like many children, I didn’t care much for fresh fruit and vegetables, but there was one exception – I absolutely adored cherries. In the … Read more

I was about 12 years old. Our family were regular churchgoers. Not only did we go every Sunday, but on and every Thursday night, I attended a Junior Club there. It … Read more

It was the summer in the late 70s– I was 13 and playing rep soccer. One night, we had a practice at the same compound where my older sister was … Read more

My mum was a stickler for cleanliness, especially in matters of personal hygiene. If, while doing the laundry, she came across a pair of my underpants which had skid marks … Read more

I didn’t see much of my father during my childhood before the age of 11, when I finally went to live with him. During that time, I got a couple … Read more

Although I got my bottom tanned by Mom growing up, Dad wasn’t above giving me corporal punishment himself. For this job, he kept an old leather tool belt, which was … Read more

I got my last spankings from my Dad when I was 14 years old, about four months before I turned 15. Me and my friend Anna were out shopping for … Read more

When I started at school, up till second grade mild forms of corporal punishment were still allowed. If you misbehaved enough, you were sent to the principal if you were … Read more