The missing hairbrush
When my first born, Rebecca, was 12, she got in trouble one day. She had misbehaved at school, and she knew her backside wa… more
Punishment in the home: part III
This is the third and final part of a posting to the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.spanking in the late 90s from an anonymous c… more
The Spanking Mum: Bedtime battles
Every mum knows that tiredness and young children is an unhappy mix. My cousin is a primary school teacher and she attrib… more
Spanked at Disneyland
When I was about seven or eight, I went on a trip to France with my mother. One of the things we were due to do on the trip was sp… more
Punishment in the home – part II
This is the second part of a posting to the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.spanking in the late 90s from an anonymous correspo… more
The Spanking Mum: The purpose of punishment
If spanking has fallen down the rat hole of social unacceptability, it’s true to say that the entire concept of pu… more
The little sister
Michael and I were best friends throughout secondary school in Northern Ireland, but the incident I’m relating … more
The Spanking Mum: The N-word
According to a recent report in the UK’s Daily Mail, more than nine in ten nursery workers have been told not to use … more
Mothers Talking: Sandra
Sandra lives in Dallas, Texas and works as a surgery assistant at a local hospital. At the time of interview, her son was a… more
Mothers Talking: Elizabeth
Elizabeth lives in the rural northern midwest of the United States. She has four children, three girls and a boy. At the t… more
Playing with fire
The first ‘real’ corporal punishment that I ever received – and the first time that I had to wear nappies si… more
Punishment in the home: part I
Back in the early 1990s, when the web was in its infancy, one of the main vehicles for user interaction was a set of discuss… more
My daughter’s first spanking
I remember very clearly the first time I spanked my daughter. By the time she had just turned four years old, one of her fav… more
A lapse in concentration
I have already written in more general terms about my young, beautiful tutor and how she used a ruler regularly during my … more
The Spanking Mum: It’s not about you
I want to talk about the biggest falsehood that’s been sold to parents since the beginning of ‘progressiv… more
Seeing Craig’s bum
I was raised in the UK county of Norfolk during the 1980s. Around the age of 10, I became friends with an American boy calle… more
The Spanking Mum: A dismal failure
It was in 1949 that Dr Benjamin Spock published the first edition of Baby and Child Care – the book widely accepted as a wat… more
Orthodox discipline
I grew up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1970s. A few houses away from us lived my aunt, my mother’s … more
The Spanking Mum: Bare necessities
OK, so here comes a difficult one. I know that many parents who are happy to endorse the occasional moderate spanking hav… more
Biting back
I love your website! I’m 35 years old and have one daughter, who has just turned nine. Even though corporal punis… more
The jam spoon
This is one of the many memories I have of growing up in a normal Catholic family in Ireland in the early 1990s. Neither my o… more
Mothers Talking: Betty (audio)
Betty lives in Arizona and at the time of the interview, her two daughters were aged nine and ten, and she also had a ten-ye… more
A doubly good hiding
Some of you may have already read my contribution to the Mothers Talking series – I’d like now to tell you about the … more
The Spanking Mum: A dirty business
As a parent (and, perhaps, particularly as a mother), you become surprisingly and quickly inured to the least glamouro… more
Coitus interruptus
I guess quite a few kids have walked in on their parents having sex. I was unlucky enough to be spanked for it, however.
I wa… more
Mothers Talking: Lauren
Lauren may already be familiar to some of Maman’s readers thanks to her reminiscences about spankings she recei… more
The judge’s daughter
I appreciate that many of your correspondents consider they had strict parents growing up – but try having a high court j… more
A touch of mercy
One of my most vivid memories of being spanked happened a few weeks after I turned seven.
It was a warm, late summer day and … more
Wetting our pants
The following conversation was found somewhere on the web some years ago – a group of now young women discussing memorie… more
The Spanking Mum: Tools for the job
Some time ago, a young UK mother-of two named Louise published a series of comment pieces about family discipline in a bl… more
Mothers Talking: Beryl
Beryl is a 68-year-old retired nanny living in the Lancashire region of the UK. Aside from the many children of other fam… more
Mothers Talking: Mary
Mary is a mother of three children. At the time of this interview, her son was 12 and her two daughters 14 and 15 respective… more
The Smoking Club
I had a very brief stint as a smoker – it started when I was 13 and ended around a week later. I went to a mixed grammar school i… more
The Housemother
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, I attended a boarding school in the Midlands region of England, close to the Cheshire b… more
Mothers Talking: Betty
Betty is a mother of three from Arizona. At the time of interview, her two daughters were aged nine and ten, and she also ha… more
Cuddling up
I have always been drawn to maternal authority figures. As a child, I always delighted in being obedient for my mother an… more