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
A hollerin’ holiday
I never knew my dad – he was killed in the first Gulf War when I was just a baby and my sister only three years older. My mom, ho… more
An unexpected encounter
During the early 1980s, when corporal punishment (though rarer) hadn’t totally disappeared from British scho… more
A sharp end to misbehaviour
My brother, who is just a year older than me, recently reminded me of the day we both received a sound spanking from our mum… more
Bottom lit after lights out
I have never fathomed out how my mind works and why it is that certain events, be they ever so short-lived, have been etche… more
Leg smackings from Mum
Although my mother was certainly not above smacking me when I was a naughty little girl, unlike most children I generall… more
Bringing children to book
As I write, I have in front of me the parenting handbook that my parents’ church gave out in 1987. I won’t sca… more
Bringing children to book (audio)
Contributor Melanie still has in her possession a parenting manual that was given out to members of her mother and fathe… more
Bottom lit after lights out (audio)
Former English preparatory school pupil Thomas remembers his bottom’s introduction to the headmaster’… more
Leg smackings from Mum (audio)
A contributor who has asked to remain anonymous tells us all about the smackings she got as a girl from her mother, whose c… more
Spanking in five acts
Prologue
If anyone should ever ask me what my earliest memory is, I simply recall receiving a basic train set one Christm… more
Caned at seven (audio)
Graham recalls the first time his mother referred him to his father for a ‘big boy’s punishment’ – ending in a first and ve… more
The benefits of spanking
When I was growing up, it was almost always my dad who was the one to spank us when we misbehaved. He would take down our pant… more
Headspace: What did Mummy say?
Just imagine – you’re no longer an adult but once again a small child. You’re standing in front of your moth… more
Mr Scott’s slipperings
At both my private prep schools for boys only (which I attended from the late 1950s until the early 60s), the PE teachers a… more
A taste of the past (audio)
Shanice recalls an erotic encounter with her boyfriend, which had its roots in an evening she spent regaling her niece a… more