Cindy is a divorced mother of two boys, aged 11 and 13 at the time of interview. She lives in Newcastle, Australia. What do the children get when they are … Read more

Lena lives in the Polish city of Poznan with her husband and children. It’s a large, traditional Catholic family consisting of two boys, who at the time of interview were … Read more

My parents split up when I was eight and my sister Clare was 14. I understand that the family was already in a bad way financially when this happened, so … Read more

‘H’ concludes her recollection of childhood punishments from her mother by telling us about the first time she actually got the cane. It turned out to hurt a lot more … Read more

In the second part of her reminiscences of childhood, ‘H’ recalls how her mother bought a cane for her bottom from a mail order firm – and she has some … Read more

Kids walking in on their parents’ lovemaking seems a fairly common occurrence. In this account, Dieter recalls seeing his mother being fucked from behind by his dad – and then … Read more

Pete was mystified when he was taken for his first tawsing at school, not realising that the mysterious strip of brown leather with the split tail was the tool used … Read more

My father was a retained fireman. For those of you from outside the UK, this is a firefighter who actually has another job (Dad worked in the local biscuit factory) … Read more

When I was eight years old, my friend Nick asked whether I wanted to come to his house for a sleepover. We didn’t call it that back then – that … Read more

Nowadays, our approach to toilet training our children is far more progressive and enlightened, and there’s absolutely no way the vast majority of parents would consider raising their hand because … Read more

On your Twitter feed, you recently asked the question whether any of your followers had experienced the French speciality of the martinet. I can tell you right now that I … Read more

When I was a little boy, I experienced quite a few difficulties with my breathing and had several quite bad bouts of bronchitis. The upshot of this was that my … Read more

In the first of three reminiscences about spankings during her childhood, H recalls getting both a smacked bottom and a slippering from her mother when she misbehaved.

I’ll admit it – I wet the bed when I was a little boy. And actually, not so little. But like most children, I had problems with controlling my bladder … Read more

When I was seven years old, I got a memorable spanking from Carol, a friend of my mother. She was 25 and beautiful. Carol had a five-year-old daughter, Joanie, with … Read more

I’ve always been close to my older sister Julie. There is barely a year between us and as we grew up, we did pretty much everything together – including getting … Read more

I was interested to read the account from Barry about being spanked for walking in on his parents having sex. On your Twitter account, someone remarked that it was slightly … Read more