UK mum Billie discusses disciplining her son, who was five at the time of this interview, and how she progressed from using her hand to the wooden spoon.

In this edition of Mothers Talking, an American mother of two, discusses her use of the paddle on her daughters and her approach to discipline in general.

I’ve read many of the stories on your website and many of them concern parents who employed an implement to whip their naughty kids into shape. However, my own mum … Read more

When Andrew’s mother became too ill to manage corporal punishment, she deputised his discipline to a neighbour he knew as Aunty Pat, resulting in many sore bottoms from her growing … Read more

Joy recalls how she began looking after her sister’s young daughter, and ended up giving the girl her first ever smacked bottom.

There are few spankings more humiliating than those received from a relative stranger rather than a close family member. Alice recalls one such smacking, bare bottomed over the knee of … Read more

I first started receiving communion and going to confession when I was eight years old (this was in the 1960s). Mum always took me, and she usually went in to … Read more

In this follow-up to The Slipper At Bedtime, the roles are reversed as our correspondent is the one finding himself bare-bottomed in front of his friend’s mum.

There is a certain peculiar camaraderie which results from being spanked alongside a close friend. In this account, our anonymous contributor describes a slippering his mum gave to him and … Read more

Back in the days of traditional discipline, stealing was one misdemeanour almost guaranteed to earn you a good sore bottom. Here, an anonymous contributor remembers one such incident…

When I was around four (it certainly wasn’t any older, as I hadn’t started school), my mother took a little cleaning job to help boost the family income, and she … Read more

In the days of the cane, a line of sombre-looking kids outside the headmaster’s door told its own story. In this account, Jack recalls his own experiences with the rod … Read more

Ella grew up in South Africa, and remembers the paddle her own mother kept for discipline – which featured a highly unusual inscription…

In this real-life mother account, Estelle recalls the time she gave her twin sons a sore bottom each for getting a bit too creative – on their bedroom wall…

In the days when mischievous kids faced the very real threat of a smacked bottom even from relative strangers, an innocent game of football could end in disaster, as Michael … Read more

Back in the ‘good old days’, many children could expect a well-spanked bottom as a regular part of their toilet training, especially for older boys and girls. Jonathan was one … Read more

The first time Kevin and Gemma ever talked about spanking was in bed, and one thing rather led to another, as he recalls in this frank account of their relationship…

Kids’ behaviour can sometimes be altogether disgusting, and in this frank reminiscence, Sean remembers how his mother put an end to ‘on the toilet conferences’ held between him and his … Read more

Edith Cadivec was an infamous educator and spanking enthusiast. In this audio version of an extract from her autobiography, Confessions and Experiences, she remembers the first time her stepmother took … Read more

Paul vividly recalls a smacked bottom he witnessed being administered while out playing on his bike one day.

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 could combine her medical work … Read more