Stepson’s first sore bottom
I married Jason in the mid 80s, and at the time his son Steven had just turned five years old. Jason’s ex had a big drug problem so he had … Read more
Smack time
I’ve read elsewhere of women ruling their households with a rod of iron – my wife Gina ruled hers with a spoon of wood! We knocked out four children (three … Read more
Mothers Talking: Kelly
Kelly is an Irish mother of two girls, both now grown up. In another Maman story, she discussed her use of the traditional Irish willow switch the ‘sally rod’. Here, … Read more
My mother the educator
I grew up in India during the 1970s, when corporal punishment, both at school and at home, was extremely common. My dad was a busy banking professional while my mother … Read more
An unfair spanking
Sometimes, when my friends and I would talk about a recent spanking, someone would say they got spanked for no good reason at all. I believed they were telling the … Read more
Raised with the cane
As a parent bringing up a family in the 1970s, corporal punishment played a natural part in enforcing family discipline. Our three girls weren’t any less well-behaved than any others … Read more
After the punishment (audio)
A rare glimpse for Harry of his wife actually spanking their young son brought a whole new dimension to their marital intimacy, as he recalls in this post.
Three bottoms for mummy (audio)
When three young brothers push their mother too far, she gets out a ruler and bends them over together for their first and only taste of corporal punishment.
A really sore bottom (audio)
The chance to start a snowball fight in the school playground proved too much of a temptation for Pat – for his trouble, he got sent to the headmistress for … Read more
Seeing it done on the bare
Spankings in our house were never given on the bare bottom – our dad usually smacked both my younger brother and I at least over our underpants. The only exception … Read more
Punishments in children’s homes
Children’s homes are still unfortunately a necessity and part of our national care network, at least in the UK, but I’m sure discipline is kinder and more humane than it … Read more
My auntie’s slipper
I’ve read a couple of accounts on your website from people who were sent elsewhere by their parents to receive corporal punishment. I note that most of them arise from … Read more
Our experiences with The Rod
I enjoyed reading your account about the history of The Rod, which you ended by asking whether there were any parents or children out there who had experience of using … Read more
After the punishment
Audrey and I married in the 1961, and had Liam, our first and only child, three years later. Liam was mostly a good boy for us but like all children, … Read more
All downhill from there
This is all about the second and final spanking I got (alongside my cousin Johnny) from my Aunt Gracie – it happened during a weekend visit, and my aunt certainly … Read more
Swift retribution
I thought I would write and tell you about a spanking I kind of partially witnessed, some years back now, when I went round to a neighbour’s house. Audrey, the … Read more
Hand – and bottom
I always hated history at school, and so if some homework wasn’t going to get done (and that happened at lot to me LOL), then history was always odds-on favourite … Read more
Not staying put
The spanking I’m talking about here happened about 20 years ago – but I still remember it like it was yesterday. It was a summer morning, and Mom and I … Read more
The coal bunker
Back in the 1960s, seeing a parent smack a child was quite commonplace, and even in public it was not unusual to see an angry mom smack the back of … Read more
Bottled up anger
My mom and dad have always been practising Christians, and every Sunday morning my brother and I would be dragged off to the local church with them. I hated it … Read more
Comforted by my sister
I was the ‘afterthought’ of our family – a boy born to my mum 12 years after the youngest of her two girls. By the time I started school Liz, … Read more
Dressed for the occasion
By the time I was 10 years old, my mother thought me too big for a spanking when I misbehaved, and so when she believed discipline was necessary she handed … Read more
Play the game
By the time me and my best friend Gavin were 12 years old, I think it had been some years since either of us had been put over the parental … Read more
Before the spanking
When I was in college, I worked part time as a night supervisor at a local motel to earn some money. My shift generally ran from 6pm to 6am the … Read more
A very motherly spanking
I remember everything like it was yesterday. It was spring and I was eight years old. It was another long weekend of my staying with my aunt, uncle and cousins, … Read more
A different fate
I think I would be about six, in my second year of primary school in the UK, and this was the mid-70s. As I mentioned in an earlier story on … Read more
Mothers Talking: Anne-Laure
At the time of this interview, French single mother Anne-Laure was 27 and living on the outskirts of Lyon with her two children, a boy of seven and a little … Read more
Mothers Talking: Imogen (audio)
In this audio version of the original story, grandmother Imogen recalls how she brought up her own son – with lots of love, and spanking.
A naked slippering
This happened to me when I was 14 years old. I used to play football and other games with two brothers who lived quite close by – I had known … Read more
Mrs Tranter (audio)
Alan remembers a highly embarrassing incident from when he was fostered out as a young boy, and was given a bath and a bare bottom spanking in front of a … Read more
My sister’s bad report (audio)
School report day was sometimes an anxious one for children – particularly if they hadn’t been trying too hard in class and their parents believed in smacking bottoms!
Three bottoms for mummy
I’ll always be in awe of how my mum managed to keep discipline in a home of three small boys, and yet only once (at least that I can remember) … Read more
Slippered into obedience
I guess you could say I was quite a spirited young girl – although I’m sure that at the time at least, my parents would have labelled me as just … Read more
Caned by the nuns
I attended an Irish Catholic primary school in the 1960s – all the teachers were nuns and discipline was strict – you could have heard a pin drop in that … Read more
Ladies’ laps
I grew up in the 1980s, a time when spankings for kids were beginning to wane in popularity but were still common enough that most of us knew that the … Read more
The timid boy
When I was a small boy, parental culture was such that for many children, the threat of a smacking – if you were very naughty – was an ever-present threat. … Read more