Mothers

I was young, eight or just nine. Our family attended what I think was a Christening. There were several children there that I met for the first time. A young, … Read more

I grew up primarily grew up in the 1960s,  a little bit in the 1950s and a little bit in the 70s.  Some boys in my village were given casual … Read more

My two brothers and I were quite regularly smacked as children, although I didn’t seem to get it half as much as they did. I think I was at heart … Read more

Unlike most of your correspondents here, I don’t think I ever received a smacked bottom throughout my entire childhood – certainly not the formal, knickers down and over mother’s knee … Read more

I’ll always remember the last spanking I got while living at home – it was exactly three days before I left home for college! A couple of weeks earlier, my mom … Read more

I am a mother of two and when our boy was ten and my daughter aged eight, we decided to move to India for a while from our original family … Read more

When I received my final – and worst – spanking from my mother, I was within a few weeks of turning 16. It ended up being for an act of … Read more

I fell for my partner a long time ago, and we are still two women deeply in love. To me, she is to me the most beautiful woman in the world, … Read more

This story goes back about 20 years, when I was still a schoolboy in my early teens. I was an only child and attended a school in Kolkata run by … Read more

I was about 10 years old, and it was just Mom and myself at home. We had eaten dinner and were watching TV – I had just taken a bath … Read more

In a tale from the time when Catholic priests were regarded as just one below God himself, our correspondent Nigel recalls his introduction to the cane after confessing his sins.

It started with myself and a few of my friends in our car in a superstore car park. We were about to drive off when we heard the very distinctive … Read more

The following took place when I was eight years old. My favourite summertime activity as a kid was riding my bike. I spent most of my afternoons riding around our … Read more

I was around seven or eight when Mum actually carried out one of her most heart-stopping threats. It only happened once, and for me once was enough! We had gone … Read more

I come from a large middle class Indian family, comprising my retired father, my homemaker mother, myself, my wife and son and my younger brother and his wife. We all … Read more

I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and before Mum and Dad split up she was the disciplinarian of the house. She believed wholeheartedly in corporal punishment, and both … Read more

I married Jason in the mid 80s, and at the time his son Steven had just turned five years old. Jason’s ex had a big drug problem so he had … Read more

I grew up in India during the 1970s, when corporal punishment, both at school and at home, was extremely common. My dad was a busy banking professional while my mother … Read more

Sometimes, when my friends and I would talk about a recent spanking, someone would say they got spanked for no good reason at all. I believed they were telling the … Read more

I thought I would write and tell you about a spanking I kind of partially witnessed, some years back now, when I went round to a neighbour’s house. Audrey, the … Read more

Back in the 1960s, seeing a parent smack a child was quite commonplace, and even in public it was not unusual to see an angry mom smack the back of … Read more

The spanking I’m talking about here happened about 20 years ago – but I still remember it like it was yesterday.  It was a summer morning, and Mom and I … Read more

My mom and dad have always been practising Christians, and every Sunday morning my brother and I would be dragged off to the local church with them. I hated it … Read more