My aunt’s milk (audio)
Casey recalls the day he watched his young aunt breastfeeding her baby – then later got to sample the milk for himself, bu… more
Equality for brothers
I won’t bore everyone rigid with how I came to find the Maman website, but let’s just say I came the long wa… more
My one and only time
I think I got the odd light smack when I was a toddler, but from the time I started school I can’t remember receiving … more
A line-up for paddling
I was born in the 70s and raised in the 80s – a time in the American midwest when corporal punishment was still common in sch… more
A painful end to a fight
I recently related how I gave my daughter Clara her first proper spanking, and this time I would like to tell you about the … more
Swimming and spanking
In the US state where I grew up, there was a law against corporal punishment by class teachers. However, school principa… more
A low blow
I was brought up in 1950s England, where corporal punishment was still by far the most common way of disciplining misbeh… more
Grandmother’s mega-spanking
Every summer, our family would gather at one of my aunt’s houses for a weekend of fun and play. Our grandmother wo… more
Smacked by Betty (audio)
One of most popular stories ever is now available in audio. In a quiet wood during the 1940s, a mixed group of young childr… more
A good reason to spank
In the latter years of the 20th century, spanking as a means of disciplining children was out of favour, including in my o… more
A good reason to spank (audio)
Peter recalls how a childhood free of spankings suddenly ended with a trip across his mother’s knee, after he ran … more
Smackings at the vicarage (audio)
An anonymous contributor describes how, during the early 50s, a village church literally took matters into its own han… more
One of the gang at last
My wife and I found the Maman site, and as a result we had quite a long conversation about spanking and read a few stories t… more
A case of honour
My parents were diplomats from Spain who would take me all around Europe throughout my childhood before finally moving … more
A testing time
I went to a Catholic school back in the 1970s and early 80s. The school was typically strict and corporal punishment was w… more
Mum’s little secret?
Contributor Liam remembers the frequent bare bottom spankings he and his sister received from their mother growing up… more
The Room (audio)
A woman in her 50s, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote to Maman with this vivid memory of domestic discipline being me… more
Grace and favour (audio)
In this audio version of a popular Maman story, Andrew tells how his desperation for suitable accommodation as a studen… more
Smackings at the vicarage
This rather incredible story comes from the early 50s, when I lived in a village in the south west of England. Some of the d… more
Slippered together
My sister Isabel and I fought like cat and dog growing up, and as our parents were quite conservative traditionalists (n… more
Memories of the birch
I was brought up in Norway during the late 60s/early 70s and my experience of corporal punishment as a child was limited t… more
Broken lamp, sore bottom
When I was eight years old, I spent part of the long school summer holiday with my maternal grandparents. I loved spendin… more
A little bit of drama
Before I was born, my mum and dad were involved in amateur theatre – in fact, its how they met. I wasn’t smacked for p… more
Witness to discipline
I spent my very early years in New Hampshire but in the early 1960s my dad landed a new job which caused the family to up stic… more
The American way
In 1987, I was given the exciting news that our family was to travel to Colorado. As a 12-year-old boy I automatically tho… more
Spanked to spanker
I have already shared a story about how my mother spanked me when I was a little boy. Although it hurt, in retrospect it did … more
A harsher reality
I think I may have had the odd smack on the bum as a toddler but by the time I was 11 years old, within at least living memory, I … more
A late punishment
Growing up in the late 70s in a small, conservative English provincial town, it’s no real surprise that my parents belie… more
The breadboard of education
When I was growing up, spankings were used by my parents as the primary method of discipline. Most of the time, my mother … more
A gesture of discipline
The most trouble any of our daughters got into at school was when our youngest, Andrea, was suspended for three days. And… more
Memories of Gloria
Your feature about paddling in the Philippines struck a particular chord with me, as it reminded me so much of my own chil… more
The girls and the hairbrush
I was born in Columbia (but moved to Spain with my family when I was 14) – this story comes from 1977, when I was just eight ye… more
Sharing the suffering
Looking back on my childhood in the Netherlands, few events have made such an impression on me as the first time I was span… more
An old hand (audio)
Carolyn recalls her days as a teenage babysitter – and how the duty of keeping discipline in the households where she wor… more
Sore bottom in a caravan (audio)
Paul remembers a family holiday during which, when he was well into double figures, ended up in him being sharply reacqu… more
A mass slippering
I went to a private all boys prep school in the early 60s and had a PE teacher named Mr Scott [name changed – Ed] who was very f… more