Mothers

Many years ago, when I was nine years old, I stole a yo-yo from a variety store – then lied to my mother about it. She gave me t… more

When I was growing up in the 50s, spankings were common and my siblings and I knew that if we disobeyed, we were spanked. I r… more

I was often spanked as a young boy, but one of the worst punishments I can remember was the day I had some friends over to pla… more

My mother was one who believed in physical punishments. In our house, this gradually became the standard remedy for any … more

In the late 1940s it was common practice to punish children with spanking – yet by the age of nine I never had gotten one. My … more

When I was growing up in the late 70s and early 80s, spanking had somewhat gone out of vogue. Many parents, including mine… more

Our mum had a hard hand, and was a firm believer in using it on her children’s bare bottoms when she felt they had des… more

Back in the 1960s, spanking was much more common. My most memorable was when my younger brother and I had misbehaved.

Mum … more

I am now 36, and grew up in the south of England in the 60s. This is the only incident of corporal punishment I can now recall… more

As children, when we were naughty mother would take us across her lap for a spanking using her bare hand. The ritual was al… more

I can remember very vividly one of the last spankings I got from my mom.  I was about 13 years old and hadn’t been spa… more

I was spanked a great deal as a child but unfortunately have forgotten nearly all of them in any specific detail. However… more

I would never have been accused of being a great athlete – but during the long hot summer days of my youth I was never withou… more

I remember getting spanked several times while a young boy – but one particular incident stands out more than others in m… more

From a 1970 copy of Forum magazine

I have followed with very great interest the correspondence in your magazine on corpo… more

The most memorable spanking that I remember was after my 16th birthday. I truly thought that I was an adult. The only thin… more

When I was nine or 10, I was something of a brat – but my mom hadn’t spanked me in a couple of years. Then one day, somet… more

My mother was a barber back in the late 60s and early 70s. On weekends, as a small girl, I would go with her to help. She had a n… more

My twin sister Jenny and I were well-behaved kids, but of course we occasionally did something wrong and suffered the co… more

In my house, in the 1970s, a spanking was a pretty common occurrence.  My mother stayed at home to raise her t… more

I grew up in a typical middle-class 1960s household in the midwest, the middle child in a three-daughter family. When we … more

My brother and I actually did not receive many spankings – but I will never forget the one we got in the summer of 1991.

Each … more

When I was in third grade, my family started attending a semi-fundamentalist protestant church. At this point I was eig… more

I guess I was about eight, and very proud of myself – I had smoked two of my brother’s cigarettes and gotten away wit… more

I’ve read a number of stories on your site about people who had corner time after being spanked. My house was diffe… more

In a previous contribution, I wrote about how my mother would wash my mouth out with soap when bad language was a problem. … more

I’m an adult now but as a girl and teen, I was subject to my mother’s strict discipline. Mother was an expert … more

It was a nice, warm summer’s day and my mother and I were at the zoo as a special treat for my birthday. I was turning f… more

I was the 13-year-old only child of well-to-do parents living in a small Canadian city. They were well respected, promi… more

Approaching my second year at university, I was really stuck as to accommodation. A planned house share had fallen thro… more