I grew up in the usual middle-class suburban family. I had two siblings. My father very rarely spanked us, and when he did you barely felt it. My mother, on the other hand, was quite a different proposition – I remember one time in particular. I was seven, and had to go grocery shopping. I […]
Being rude to mother
When I was about 12, I remember my brother had his friend round for the day. I always hated this because I was always one for attention-seeking. That day I was acting up from the word go and I kept on and on giving my brother hell, as well as his friend and most of […]
Losing track of time
I am a mother who raised children in the 1970s and firmly believed in the use of a spanking to set young minds straight. I think that it did my two daughters well when I was raising them as a single mother, and I believe that there would be a good deal less juvenile crime […]
On the bare bottom
In a previous contribution to Maman, questions were raised as to whether mothers spank their children on the bare bottom, and in what positions. My first-hand knowledge of this dates back to the mid 1950s, when I witnessed the following spanking incident. I was a10-year-old boy in 1953, and experienced a life-changing event which I […]
Picking a spanking
One episode clearly sticks in my mind when I was eight years old. I had gone into a neighbour’s garden and pulled up some flowers, and she, quite rightly, dragged me home and complained to my father, who happened to answer the door. I was summarily taken upstairs and had my bare bottom thoroughly smacked […]
Three for the strap
I want to tell you about how my Aunt Jenny (whom I was living with full time) gave me and my cousins a severe spanking with the strap. At the time, both myself and her daughter Hannah were 10, and Hannah’s sister Kelly was a year younger. All three of us earned the dreadful stinging […]
In hot water
My parents were decent people who believed in children being raised in the proper manner. We were well loved and they gave us everything that they could afford, but at the same time they showed us who was in charge. I vividly recall one instance when I was 10 years old. We lived close by […]