I was spanked quite often in front of company – ‘misbehave in front of company and you’ll get spanked in fro… more

I don’t know how my parents put up with me when I was a child – I was a real little brat. In fact, sometimes they didn&#… more

I can’t believe I’m actually telling someone this story! Although this happened a good 40 years ago, I can … more

Your correspondent Mike reminded me of my mother’s use of language when it came to matters of discipline. I was al… more

Looking back at my childhood, I sometimes wonder how I was ever able to sit down. I guess it’s because my mother had … more

My sad tale began when I decided to take my two-stroke motorcycle for a spin around the block.

I had been told before not to … more

Back in the mid 1950s, I was a schoolboy living with my parents and a sister and brother in suburban Philadelphia. At the t… more

I was the youngest of five children who grew up in a loving but strict Catholic household in Ireland. Like most Catholics… more

This is from my childhood in Scandinavia in the late 60s/early 70s, and is my recollection of my first bare bottom spanki… more

You may recall the spanking I told you about back in my previous story. I was caught playing on the railway line and Mum gav… more

I am the son of a mother who believed whole heartedly in smacking naughty children’s bottoms. Although painful, … more

Until recently, I had pretty much concluded that traditional parenting methods had gone the way of the dinosaur, as tod… more

I think I must have been a fairly difficult child, because I can remember clearly the day when I said something that irrit… more

I grew up in the 70s, in a surprisingly conservative and ‘Cleaver-like’ home for the times. There were fiv… more

One morning when I was eight, mom decided to take me and my younger sister shopping for a new dress. I was extremely excite… more

My parents were always respectful of me and my sisters, and expected the same in return. We had a good life and our parents … more

Both of my parents, especially my Mum, were lovely and broadminded – but they also believed that a stern punishment shou… more

I was no stranger to spankings as a kid. Whenever I misbehaved in any manner, I could expect a spanking from my mom. She wou… more

I grew up in the early 50s when spankings were to be expected in the process of raising children. I lived with my mother and … more

As I was growing up, I received many spankings. The one I remember the most happened was when I was six years old.

I had a fri… more

When I was little, my parents were very, very big on spankings. My dad would usually take me to his room and give me a good wh… more

Many years ago, when I was nine years old, I stole a yo-yo from a variety store – then lied to my mother about it. She gave me t… more

When I was growing up in the 50s, spankings were common and my siblings and I knew that if we disobeyed, we were spanked. I r… more

I was often spanked as a young boy, but one of the worst punishments I can remember was the day I had some friends over to pla… more

My mother was one who believed in physical punishments. In our house, this gradually became the standard remedy for any … more

In the late 1940s it was common practice to punish children with spanking – yet by the age of nine I never had gotten one. My … more

When I was growing up in the late 70s and early 80s, spanking had somewhat gone out of vogue. Many parents, including mine… more

Our mum had a hard hand, and was a firm believer in using it on her children’s bare bottoms when she felt they had des… more