The mean girls
This story was one my mom shared with me when I was older, and it took place shortly after my parents got married and before … more
Teachers
Advertising’s bottom line
Maman special report
One of the oldest and immutable principles of advertising has been to identify with your target au… more
The Rod: a sting in the tale
Maman special report
Back in the day (well, the late 90s/early 00s to be a bit more precise), a rather eye-catching adver… more
Whackings – and afterwards
I went to a school in north London during the 1970s and the cane was still very much in use. I was unfortunate enough to be se… more
School and home
I was 16 years old, late in my sophomore year of high school. It was the early 1990s. I went to a school that paddled fairly r… more
Boarding school discipline
During the 1950s, I went to a strict boarding school in Western Australia, and I remember being caned very vividly.
To ea… more
My school spankings
Who remembers their school spankings? I recently passed by the site of one of my old schools in Tyne and Wear UK (houses ha… more
Demerit boys sent for the cane
When I was seven years old, I was sent away to board at a private preparatory (prep) school for boys in the south of England … more
What should have happened
It was 1959. I was eight and in my last term at primary school before moving on to the lower school of a large boys’ grammar. … more
Back To Common Sense – Chapter I (incomplete)
DISCIPLINE, THE RIGHTFUL HERITAGE OF THE CHILD
‘Rejoice Not in Ungodly Children’
We Americans are justly proud of what … more
Back To Common Sense: Note and Preface
The following text is an introductory note and preface to Beatrice Reinhart’s 1937 book Back To Common Sense, a c… more
The spelling test
I was never very good at spelling – and that lack of ability led to my first and only school paddling, back in the 1980s.
I wa… more
Chatterbox chastised
I was a real chatterbox in school, particularly during my primary years, and my talking in class frequently got me into t… more
Correction That Corrects: Foreword
Correction That Corrects is a book on ‘child training’ authored by American Mariam Fredrick in 1925. It i… more
Paddling my daughter
About a year after I first took the position of vice principal, I was married – and, as you might expect, children quickly … more
Listening in on a paddling
In a previous contribution to your site, I gave an overview, as it were, of how I came to be the vice-principal of a Christi… more
Paddlings for girls
I thought your readers might be interested in my experience of paddling young ladies’ bottoms at a private Chris… more
Spankings on panties
Even though I grew up in Europe at a time when spanking was pretty much on the way out, I still experienced it not only at hom… more
The Spanking Mum: The N-word
According to a recent report in the UK’s Daily Mail, more than nine in ten nursery workers have been told not to use … more
A doubly good hiding
Some of you may have already read my contribution to the Mothers Talking series – I’d like now to tell you about the … more
The Housemother
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, I attended a boarding school in the Midlands region of England, close to the Cheshire b… more
A heap of trouble
I think I must have been around six years old and in my kindergarten class. It was winter time and I was wearing pantyhose u… more
A paddling to note
This happened when I was in eighth grade, which would be in the mid-1980s. I was 13. I’ve changed the teachersR… more
My beautiful tutor
During my lower school and early middle school years, I had a personal tutor to help me with my studies. This teacher was a … more
Do you want a smacked bum?
Many years ago, much to the annoyance of my mother, I used to run upstairs to my bedroom most evenings after school to chan… more
The hated coat
I was in the second year of senior school, so I’d be 12. I needed a new winter coat and one day, when I got home from my l… more
On the subject of spanking
When I was 16 years old, Mom surprised me with my first spanking from her in three years. It came about as a result of a spank… more
After class
When I was eight, I was in Miss Bateman’s class. She was quite a young teacher (although she seemed ancient to us ch… more
In fifth grade
When I was 10, I thought all physical discipline would end at our private school, at least for girls. We generally got som… more
A slip of the tongue
I was enrolled in a small private day school in New England in the 40s, when physical discipline was fairly common, or at l… more
The whole class
The following story was related to our contributor by his father, and comes from his dad’s own boyhood in the late … more
Crossing into discipline
I was at primary school in the 1950s in the north-east of England, where spankings at home and at school were commonplace… more
Sister Bridget’s first bottom
This is a story about one of the many memorable spankings I got during my schooldays. When I was 13, my father’s wor… more
She swings a mean paddle
Mrs Kearns had earned a reputation among both parents and students for being the strictest of disciplinarians who taug… more
That’s torn it
This story happened when I was in the third grade. We had just moved from Atlanta to south Georgia, and Mrs Dixon was my new … more