Promises to God
I’d done something naughty – mom had hauled me in from play and was scolding me about it. At some point she must have … more
Bus stop conversation
I expect many people visiting this website often wonder how prevalent the practice of spanking still is with today’s pa… more
Summers of spankings
I have such fond memories of summers back in my childhood and youth – the 60s and 70s were wonderful times! Swimming both … more
A bittersweet moment
I was by no means a badly-behaved boy, growing up in the 1970s – but that didn’t mean I never got into trouble! One of … more
After the birthday boy
I grew up in rural, south east Texas. My parents spanked me when I needed it, but nothing very severe, unlike many of the e… more
The devotion of a mother
I am a 29-year-old single mom raising my nine-year-old daughter. I will not state where I am from, but will say that I am fo… more
The family paddle
I wonder how many of you reading this site, like myself, got spanked by a friend’s mother or father? I suffered tha… more
In the run-up
I’d like to share my recollections of corporal punishment some years ago at an English boys day school. It’… more
Watching my sister
My sister and I were raised in a pretty liberal New York family, with absolutely no spanking involved in our upbringing. … more
A miscarriage of justice
At the end of our road where I grew up was a large abandoned factory complex. All the kids from the area played there… more
The Family Paddle (audio)
An ‘audio-first’ exclusive for our Red Bottom Club members, as Simon recalls a memorable paddling admin… more
A public performance
I think I have described before how it was that Scottish mothers were such firm believers in maintaining order and disci… more
My naughty nephew
A fair time ago now, I was out in our local shopping centre, indulging in a bit of retail therapy, when I noticed a group of t… more
An accident
I was around seven years old and I had been bored all day. My mom asked if I wanted to go to the store. I told her ‘yeah&… more
Buzzing bottom
I was raised in Texas and my mother always had a plastic flyswatter that she applied to my bottom from as young as I can reme… more
Cherry red bottom (audio)
Clare remembers how her love of cherries as a child led once to her father giving her a bottom to match the colour of that pa… more
Leathered for smoking (audio)
A father who wishes to remain anonymous recalls a memorable spanking he gave his 10-year-old daughter, after her mothe… more
After the fight, part II
In the first part of this story, you heard how my fight with another girl in school earned us both three licks of the paddle … more
After the fight, part I
When I was growing up in the midwest in the 1980s, corporal punishment in schools was still very much an option. At our sch… more
My father’s daughter
Throughout my childhood and adolescence, I frequently found myself over the knee of his first partner, an American lad… more
The boy next door
I have a younger brother – there are just 13 months between us, so Mum and Dad didn’t exactly waste time after they h… more
A punishment in itself
For me, as a child, in many ways the worst part of corporal punishment was not the spanking itself – it was the waiting, par… more
Beyond fatherly duty
I’m sure that many of those who were spanked as children were very familiar with the threat of ‘wait ’… more
A wee bit of revenge
When I was nine, I learned something interesting: if you put a sleeping person’s hand into warm water, they will w… more
Couples Talking: Alan and Claire
In the next instalment of this popular series, Alan confesses how secretly sniffing his stepmum’s worn knicker… more
The wages of sin
I’ve already told you about the first time my father put me over his knee for the slipper, when I was six years old. T… more
A switch in time…
When I was six years old, my mother began sending me to my aunt and uncle’s house in North Carolina for the Summer. … more
A spanking on the beach
We were having a family day out at a beach on the UK’s Yorkshire coast – it was 1971 and I was 11 years old.
I had been re… more
The day of the curse
I grew up in the 70s when spanking was something that definitely happened both at home and in school.
My mot… more
The day of the curse (audio)
A slip of the tongue in third grade proved very costly for young Jeremy, earning him three separate spankings and mouth s… more
Mothers Talking: Bev
Bev lives in the West Midlands of England with her husband and two daughters, who at the time of this interview were six an… more
A classroom conversation
To my mind, there’s no doubt that the teachers of my own schooldays seemed to have an interest in whether the kids they tau… more
Dirty knickers, sore bottom (audio)
Jennifer recalls a car ride for a shopping outing which began with a misjudgement and a lie – and ended up with two short, s… more
Stepmother’s spanking (audio)
In this new audio version of a Maman classic, Peter recalls witnessing his new stepmother spanking her own son for the fi… more