Paint it red (audio)
In this real-life mother account, Estelle recalls the time she gave her twin sons a sore bottom each for getting a bit too … more
Facing the congregation
When I was 14, I attended a four-day church camp in the mountains. During the last two days of the trip, myself and some oth… more
An own goal (audio)
In the days when mischievous kids faced the very real threat of a smacked bottom even from relative strangers, an innoce… more
Pants inspections (audio)
Back in the ‘good old days’, many children could expect a well-spanked bottom as a regular part of their to… more
Something to talk about (audio)
The first time Kevin and Gemma ever talked about spanking was in bed, and one thing rather led to another, as he recalls in … more
Something stinks (audio)
Kids’ behaviour can sometimes be altogether disgusting, and in this frank reminiscence, Sean remembers how hi… more
Stepmother’s birchings (audio)
Edith Cadivec was an infamous educator and spanking enthusiast. In this audio version of an extract from her autobiogr… more
Tears before a smack (audio)
Paul vividly recalls a smacked bottom he witnessed being administered while out playing on his bike one day.… more
Broken window, sore bottom
I didn’t receive many spankings as a child, certainly not compare with some of my friends. Even when I was given a s… more
Mum hits the roof
My mother was a lady GP and a modest extension to our house in the south of England served as her practice. This meant she co… more
Playing with fireworks
My daughter and I spent the recent New Year holiday with my mom and dad, and while we were staying there Dad reminded me of a … more
Boys getting swats
During the 1980s, when I was in the third grade, I got a paddling from my class teacher. Some tattle-tale of a kid had appar… more
A strapping to remember
I have mentioned in my other contributions here that mom administered the overwhelming majority of spankings in our ho… more
A splash of spanking
The most unusual spanking I ever got was when I was six years old and went swimming a the house of one of my best friends, a gi… more
First time with the belt
Growing up as the child of two secondary school teachers, it was never in doubt that I was expected to do well at school.
M… more
A taste of the slipper
I can’t recall exactly the first time my father used the slipper on my bottom, but I do recall as if it was yesterday … more
Sore bottom in the summertime
It was the summer vacation and I was doing the usual thing that most 14-year-old girls do during a break from school – noth… more
A military childhood
I was a child born in the early 60s, my father was in the military and my mum was very much a home-maker, although she did hav… more
Reckoning for shoplifter
I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s in northern England, in a predominantly working class city. My father worked on th… more
Bare bottoms in class
Contrary to what many believe, some children did get their bare bottoms smacked in school. I know, because I witnessed o… more
Making a meal of it
I grew up in the 1970s in the south of England. My mother had me when she was considerably older than most mums and gave birt… more
An own goal
At the end of our street was a quite large patch of grass, where my friends and I played football. Adjacent was a bungalow w… more
Strictness over school work
I grew up in Malaysia. My sister and I were trained from when we were quite young to be good girls. We were both usually obed… more
Real spanking experiences
I read recently that someone doubted the truth of stories of corporal punishment experienced by girls at school beyond … more
Roasting in the kitchen
As a young boy growing up in Ireland, I was no stranger to a trip over my mum’s knee with my trousers and underpants t… more
In the fitting room
On my 13th birthday, what I wanted more than anything was a pair of Wrangler jeans. Of course, I had perfectly good jeans a… more
Shona’s knickers (audio)
As a Scottish teacher of the 1950s, David’s mother was unsurprisingly a firm supporter of the belt in both school … more
Mum finishes it (audio)
FREE AUDIO: When Lucy and her sister squabbled as children, their mother often resorted to settling such arguments wit… more
On the bare bottom (audio)
The experience of seeing a young playmate getting a maternal spanking for wetting her underpants is one which this anon… more
On smacking at seven (audio)
The following remarks about domestic discipline were originally collected by John and Elizabeth Newson, a husband an… more
Paint it red
From a mother’s point of view, discipline matters. I learned early on that to be too lenient with children does not pay of… more
Dressed up for a sore bottom
I don’t remember all the events of this particular incident. Mom and I were getting ready to go out for the day to see mom’s … more
Nanny (audio)
This story takes us right back to the 1940s, when a little girl’s dining room prank ended with an introduction to t… more
Growing up right (audio)
The following memories are drawn from posts on an internet forum set up to support a BBC project called ‘Scotland on Film… more
Crossing into discipline (audio)
What’s worse than a spanking? How about two spankings in the same day, one at school and the other from mother at ho… more
Matrons remembered (audio)
The following is an exchange between two contributors to the long-defunct Maman mailing list, regarding that formida… more