Three types of caning

When I was a little girl, the discipline I dreaded most was a beating with the cane. My mother used a rattan cane and it neve… more

Pee is for paddling

My mother was a sixth grade teacher from the time she graduated in the 1970s until she retired five or six years ago.  When … more

Finally on the bare

When I was a boy, my mother kept a strap that she would use to chastise me once in awhile. She usually gave me between 15 and 2… more

The spelling test

I was never very good at spelling – and that lack of ability led to my first and only school paddling, back in the 1980s.

I wa… more

Asking for it

During the early 70s in London, I was part of a hard-core group of six children who gathered regularly on the edge of the pa… more

Smacked bottom games

During the 1970s, when I was growing up, a smacked bottom was such a routine punishment for a naughty youngster that we ch… more

Too hot to handle

One morning, when I was 10 years old, I had a school test I hadn’t revised for. My lack of application to my school wo… more

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