Mothers

As children, when we were naughty mother would take us across her lap for a spanking using her bare hand. The ritual was always the same, even when both of … Read 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 spanked in quite some time. I am … Read more

I was spanked a great deal as a child but unfortunately have forgotten nearly all of them in any specific detail. However, I do remember one quite vividly. I am … Read 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 without some type of ball. … Read more

I remember getting spanked several times while a young boy – but one particular incident stands out more than others in my mind. This particular incident began when my mother … Read more

From a 1970 copy of Forum magazine I have followed with very great interest the correspondence in your magazine on corporal punishment, and although the many letters already published bear … Read more

The most memorable spanking that I remember was after my 16th birthday. I truly thought that I was an adult. The only thing that kept me from that was that … Read 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, something happened to … Read 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 nice … Read more

My twin sister Jenny and I were well-behaved kids, but of course we occasionally did something wrong and suffered the consequences. Our mother was a warm but no-nonsense type person … Read more

In my house, in the 1970s, a spanking was a pretty common occurrence.  My mother stayed at home to raise her two sons and she never hesitated to reinforce the rules … Read more

I grew up in a typical middle-class 1960s household in the midwest, the middle child in a three-daughter family. When we were quite young, my parents would sometimes rely on … Read 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 spring, we got new … Read more

When I was in third grade, my family started attending a semi-fundamentalist protestant church. At this point I was eight or nine and I had a four-year-old brother and sisters … Read more

I guess I was about eight, and very proud of myself – I had smoked two of my brother’s cigarettes and gotten away with it. However, it was clear when … Read more

I’ve read a number of stories on your site about people who had corner time after being spanked. My house was different – we had the corner time before being … Read more

In a previous contribution, I wrote about how my mother would wash my mouth out with soap when bad language was a problem. Now, I would like to relate how … Read 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 in giving spankings to me and my sister … Read 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 five at the time, … Read more

I was the 13-year-old only child of well-to-do parents living in a small Canadian city. They were well respected, prominent citizens and I was pretty much what you could describe … Read more

Approaching my second year at university, I was really stuck as to accommodation. A planned house share had fallen through, many of the other options were too far away from … Read more

My name is Jennifer and I’m 42 years old. I have two grown-up daughters (20 and 22 at the time of writing) and two grown-up stepdaughters (19 and 21). The … Read more

I grew up in the 1980s and discipline was very simple. If I misbehaved, I would find myself across my mum’s knee, my skirt up and my knickers down for … Read more

One episode clearly sticks in my mind when I was eight years old. I had gone into a neighbour’s garden and pulled up some flowers, and she, quite rightly, dragged … Read more

In a previous contribution to Maman, questions were raised as to whether mothers spank their children on the bare bottom, and in what positions. My first-hand knowledge of this dates … Read more

I can remember, when I was about 10 or 11, having two or possibly three spankings in one week. I think the first was at the weekend, after we – … Read more

When I was growing up, there was one punishment worse than a spanking. It was reserved for the pet peeve of my mother – if she heard a bad word … Read more

I am a mother who raised children in the 1970s and firmly believed in the use of a spanking to set young minds straight. I think that it did my … Read more

I have few memories of being five, but this particular day at the beach is recalled in part in vivid detail. Being a city boy, it was rare that my … Read more