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 first time I smacked my son … Read more

Swimming and spanking

In the US state where I grew up, there was a law against corporal punishment by class teachers. However, school principals were allowed to spank misbehaving students. Some principals never … Read more

A low blow

I was brought up in 1950s England, where corporal punishment was still by far the most common way of disciplining misbehaved children. My mother was the exclusive disciplinarian for me … Read 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 would always be present and she was a wonderful cook … Read 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 own home, and I knew only a couple … Read more

Smackings at the vicarage (audio)

An anonymous contributor describes how, during the early 50s, a village church literally took matters into its own hands regarding anti-social behaviour by some of the local children.

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 together, which was fun. We chose … Read more

A case of honour

My parents were diplomats from Spain who would take me all around Europe throughout my childhood before finally moving back to Spain when I was 12. I spent the first … Read 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 well known to be used, but only in … Read more

Mum’s little secret?

Contributor Liam remembers the frequent bare bottom spankings he and his sister received from their mother growing up. Did these punishments conceal a deeper, sexual secret?

The Room (audio)

A woman in her 50s, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote to Maman with this vivid memory of domestic discipline being meted out to the children of her well-to-do family.

Grace and favour (audio)

In this audio version of a popular Maman story, Andrew tells how his desperation for suitable accommodation as a student led to him living with a mother who firmly believed … Read more

Slippered together

My sister Isabel and I fought like cat and dog growing up, and as our parents were quite conservative traditionalists (not to mention regular churchgoers), one or the other of … Read 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 to bare bottom hand-spankings from my mother. If … Read 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 punishment at home, and the cane, … Read 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 thought this meant a trip to Disneyland. I … Read 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 me a lot of good … Read 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 believed in smacking the bottoms of naughty children when they … Read 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. Andi was by no means habitually the naughtiest of … Read 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 childhood back in the early 80s, when my … Read 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 spanked. I known others have been similarly … Read 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 worked transformed her own intimate experiences.

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 reacquainted with a punishment usually reserved for much younger children…

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 found of … Read more

An unexpected encounter

During the early 1980s, when corporal punishment (though rarer) hadn’t totally disappeared from British schools, I worked as a teacher. I had taken a break from work when Daniel, our … Read more

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