Mothers

Considering it hurt so much at the time, you may think it odd that I remember my mom’s spanking spoon with such affection, but it taught me and my siblings … Read more

When I was nine, I got invited to a classmate’s birthday party. Debbie was a very popular girl and her parents were well off, so it was quite a large … Read more

My mother was definitely a believer in smacking naughty children. I was by no means the most unruly child of my cohort in school but like all children, I did … Read more

This story is true and written from personal experience. What I set down now is exactly how everything unfolded in 1973, at a time when the phenomenon of streaking began … Read more

When my big brother and I were growing up in Wyoming during the 1980s, my mom spanked us pretty often. The tool she used for our discipline was an oval … Read more

My birth mother died when I was just six years old, and for the next three years it was just me and Dad. Because we had both been through a … Read more

I was brought up in the late 70s/early 80s, and in many ways my family life was something of a contradiction. Dad was basically an unreconstructed hippy, with a laid-back … Read more

One day, when I was 11 years old, I was playing at my friend Amanda’s house. when we heard agitated yelling from her next-door neighbour’s home. It sounded like the neighbour … Read more

When I was around 12 or 13, we went on a family picnic at a local fish hatchery. My brother and his friends were walking on a narrow cement wall … Read more

When I was about nine years old, I got caught bullying my neighbour’s daughter. Unfortunately for me, the girl’s mother was good friends with my mum, so after she caught … Read more

I was born in a fairly large Spanish town to a working family, being the middle one of three brothers. I also have a sister. We were raised by strict … Read more

When my brother Andrea and I were boys, it was our mother who handled all the behaviour matters. Our father ran a small olive farm in the north east of … Read more

When I was a naughty boy, I would usually be sent to fetch Mum’s slipper from her shoe cupboard (unless she happened to be wearing it at the time, of … Read more

My first recollection of a spanking is one I received when I was four years old, although I know from family conversations that I received corporal punishment before then. My … Read more

When I was a little girl, the discipline I dreaded most was a beating with the cane. My mother used a rattan cane and it never failed to leave a … Read more

My mother was a sixth grade teacher from the time she graduated in the 1970s until she retired five or six years ago.  When she began her career, corporal punishment … Read more

I grew up in Arkansas during the 1990s, and my mother’s approach to discipline was extremely conservative. She considered that spanking the children was woman’s work and she did it … Read more

I was five and in my first year at primary school. I noticed that there was a blue teddy in the toy box in the classroom which was the same … Read more

When I was a boy, my mother kept a strap that she would use to chastise me once in awhile. She usually gave me between 15 and 25 licks when … Read more

I grew up in Britain in the 1970s, and my mum thought nothing about taking down my trousers and pants (or those of my little brother) when she considered we … Read more

When I was young, I got my bottom spanked by my mother pretty regularly. She kept a paddle for her children’s bare behinds and wasn’t afraid to use it. One … Read more

During the early 70s in London, I was part of a hard-core group of six children who gathered regularly on the edge of the park, though sometimes our numbers swelled … Read more

One morning, when I was 10 years old, I had a school test I hadn’t revised for. My lack of application to my school work had already been the source … Read more

It’s funny the ideas you get as a child. We were on holiday in the British seaside resort of Scarborough, and I was four years old. One day, as we … Read more