Slippery slope
When I was a boy, my parents and I often went to stay with their closest friends (each of the husbands had been the other… more
The candy bar
I was all dressed for Sunday School with my younger brother Jeff. My father gave us each a quarter for the collection bask… more
How strict are yours?
With the decline in corporal punishment at home, I don’t know whether kids still have this conversation but back … more
Telephone interruption
This is a memory from when I was four. My mother was talking on the telephone with a friend. She was in the upstairs telepho… more
A slip of the tongue
I was enrolled in a small private day school in New England in the 40s, when physical discipline was fairly common, or at l… more
Mothers Talking: Belinda
Belinda lives in New Zealand and describes herself as a ‘Bible-believing Catholic’. At the time of the in… more
Caught smoking
I grew up in Ohio in the 80s and by the age of 11, my best friend and I had grown curious about being cool like our fathers, bot… more
Tommy in trouble
Firstly, I have to admit that I’ve been fascinated by spanking from an early age. I wasn’t an especially na… more
The Nanny Smacker
My mum was a big believer in corporal punishment, so not surprisingly my sister and I were often across her knee, with our … more
The belt from Momma
I grew up in a big African-American family (three daughters, two sons) in Alabama, US, in the early 1980s, and spankings … more
Counting the cost
When I was nine years old, my mother took me and my younger brother and sister to a department store where my grandmother w… more
Something to talk about
The first time Gemma and I ever talked about spanking was in bed. I had been staying over and as we got ready to retire, Gemm… more
The wrong knickers
I always fancied myself as something of a ‘class clown’, and by the time I transferred to an English second… more
Heather’s sympathy
I grew up in Canada in an Irish Catholic family with two sisters, one a year older and one a year younger. My father was a po… more
The whole class
The following story was related to our contributor by his father, and comes from his dad’s own boyhood in the late … more
Spanked in the bathroom
This is how I remember the spankings I got while growing up in Brisbane, Australia, in the 1950s. I turned 10 in 1956.
Bris… more
Water – and the hairbrush
I remember the time me and my brother (who was two years older) got spanked over a water-related escapade.
We had come hom… more
Fireworks at Auntie Nikky’s
I was a typical 12-year-old boy. Basically pretty well-behaved and at home, mum and dad hadn’t had to smack my bottom sin… more
Obeying the sitter
This incident happened when I was nine years old. My mom had hired a sitter for me for two weeks – our nanny was on vacation… more
Wrong call over a ball
I was spanked a lot as a kid, until about 12 years old. One of the ones I remember the most happened when I was nine.
My friend … more
Mum finishes it
My sister Clare and I were always squabbling as children. It drove our mum to despair and two well-smacked bottoms were f… more
Petticoat pettiness
I grew up in the late 50s and early 60s, when girls always wore skirts and dresses, and lots of crinolines.
One time, my sis… more
Sore bottom in a hotel
In the late 1980s, I visited London for a week with my fianceé, and as we were young and impecunious at the time, we ended up … more
The smell of the strap
When I was six years old, my father left me and my mum to go off with another woman. I never saw him again after that. With fin… more
Hot by the pool
I remember staying at my aunt’s summer house when I was nine years old.
One day, me and my cousin Kathy (who was about the sa… more
Tears before a smack
One day, during the school holidays when I was a young teenager, I rode my bike to a popular children’s play area in the nex… more
Spankings at home
My siblings and I were spanked frequently as children. We were usually sent to our parents’ bedroom to await our punishm… more
Crossing into discipline
I was at primary school in the 1950s in the north-east of England, where spankings at home and at school were commonplace… more
A little talk
Once, when visiting my cousin in Kansas, he was acting really rudely and his mom said: “That’s it – we’re gonna have a litt… more
My sister’s ‘extra pants’
One year on holiday, my sister and I got up very early one morning and ran off to the beach, where we dug a hole about a foot de… more
The dawn of an obsession
We weren’t babysat very often. We had a stay at home mum and a dad who was on the road a lot. But soon after we moved to Scotlan… more
Into the woods
When I was a child growing up in the Adirondacks, I went after school to Mrs Redmond’s house. She had a daughter, Lo… more
The Victory Garden
When one lives in a house of servants, one must respect the work and turf of each person as being almost sacred.
Servants a… more
In front of my elders
This happened in the early 1970s when I was nine years old, and the public spanking of children was no big deal.
I had gone t… more