In the days when I was brave enough to have a Twitter account, I was very concerned to see a link posted to my feed which claimed: ‘Spanking causes brain damage.’ Basically, it said that spanking had been linked to a restriction in brain development, picked up in a study of MRI scans. This obviously […]
An obsession for discipline
During my childhood, discipline was a common affair in most households. I always connected strongly with maternal discipline and one relative in particular captivated my thoughts profoundly. Raji was a straight-faced, stern-looking woman who hardly smiled and carried herself with an air of strictness. She was a doctor and single mum, with a reputation in […]
Signing up for a spanking
One of my more memorable spankings came in seventh grade. I was struggling with my math class (pre-algebra) – Mom knew this and made sure I was doing all of the practice tests and workbooks. The Sunday before I had a full exam, she asked me if I had been studying and if I thought […]
Hairbrush motivation
When I was seven, my mother died – and when I was nine, my dad remarried. My stepmom was smart, kind, funny, engaged, loving – and extremely strict. In her house, if you behaved, things were amazing. But, both for myself and my two new step siblings, if you didn’t behave, hell visited your bottom. […]
Mad about the boy
Warning: This contribution is somewhat different from our usual content in its parameters, in that it references a spanking given by a father, and an explicit description of teenage sex. Please read no further if you think either of those factors might offend you. During the summer between eighth and ninth grades, I had convinced my […]
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 have trouble with the idea of taking down their child’s pants to administer it. For the anti-spanking brigade, of course, this is all ginger. Prepare for cries of sexual assault, perversion and much, much […]
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 favourite things to do was colouring. She coloured a lot in her colouring books – but sometimes also unfortunately on walls and other places. My initial response was to simply scold […]