I was born in Italy at the beginning of the 1980s. By that time spanking’s popularity had begun to wane with parents. Certainly it wasn’t really talked about, and you certainly didn’t see children getting them, or talking about having been disciplined in that way. No doubt in some poorer families corporal punishments were still […]

Although my mother was certainly not above smacking me when I was a naughty little girl, unlike most children I generally didn’t get the punishment on my bottom. Instead, I got my legs slapped. Now, it’s true that some kids also got this treatment from their parents back in the day but it was usually […]

The most trouble any of our daughters got into at school was when our youngest, Andrea, was suspended for three days. Andi was by no means habitually the naughtiest of our three – that was probably our middle girl, Lizzy, who could be impulsive, headstrong and sometimes spoke without thinking. Needless to say, that led […]

I attended a modern secondary school in the South of England in the mid 1970s.  I was one of those boys who rarely got into any serious trouble, suffering only a class detention or two, or receiving some lines as punishment. Back then, of course, the cane was the ultimate deterrent. However, unless you were […]

My mother was a teenager when I was born and for some personal reasons, I ended up living with my dad and my grandparents. When I was two, my daddy started dating my bio mom’s twin sister. Look, we’re from small town North Carolina, we’re rednecks born and raised, I won’t lie. She looks like […]

I grew up in the 70s when spanking was something that definitely happened both at home and in school. My mother was Irish Catholic and she made sure that I was sent to Catholic school. Getting spanked at school was something that happened to every boy sooner or later. Teachers were allowed to spank boys […]

I’d like to share my recollections of corporal punishment some years ago at an English boys day school. It’s not that long ago that corporal punishment was considered quite normal and most boys expected to receive it at some time during secondary school, maybe several times each term, and even though we were generally punished […]