My sister Clare and I were always squabbling as children. It drove our mum to despair and two well-smacked bottoms were frequently the result. As the elder by 18 months, I confess that I was frequently the instigator of these almost daily squabbles. But it was really six of one and half a dozen of […]

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 police officer and mother a stay at home mom. My parents were very strict and definitely spanked for serious infractions. We were all spanked and usually by Dad, although Mom […]

My mum was a big believer in corporal punishment, so not surprisingly my sister and I were often across her knee, with our underpants down, during our childhoods. All these punishments were administered with a small wooden paddle, which was known by a number of names in our household. It was sometimes referred to as […]

With the decline in corporal punishment at home, I don’t know whether kids still have this conversation but back in my day, we often discussed how ‘strict’ our parents were with us. Mostly, of course, we meant smacked bottoms! Many children I knew maintained that they never got spanked at all – they considered it […]

My mother took me to visit the daughter of one of her friends. We were the same age. Sarah and I liked each other right away and her mother suggested that since it was a lovely day, Sarah might like to take me outside to play in the garden. Sarah showed me some outside toys, […]

When I was nine, I fell in love with horses, as a great many girls do. I started to draw their heads all over my notebooks and I rode with friends whenever I had the opportunity. Several of my friends had horses and although I didn’t, it was no problem to find someone who would […]

I grew up during the in France during the 1970s, and was raised by my single mother. I was an energetic child, whom she loved and spoiled whenever she could. However, I also had to live by her strict rules and disobeying them often resulted in a smacked bottom! My experience of corporal punishment was […]