My Mother had hired a sitter for me for two weeks – our nanny was on vacation. Anyway, the sitter came to watch me and my sister for a few days.

I was making life hard for the sitter – everything she told me to do, I just ignored her. I would not eat my dinner as she told me to. My sitter was setting the table and I took the salt shaker and loosened the top. Another time, I was eating a piece of candy and she told me to spit it out. I told her: “No! You can’t make me!”

Anyway, we were sitting at the dinner table when the sitter grabbed the shaker and the lid flew off as she was putting it on her food. She was really angry with me.

At that moment my Mother walked in the door from work and she could hear the sitter yelling at me. My sitter told Mother everything I did.

Mother came over, took me out of the chair and told me I was getting a spanking and the sitter was to watch.

Mother made me stand in front of her, she lectured to me and also made me apologise to the sitter. I did not obey Mother ’s demand.

Mother said: “Since you will not apologise, you will get it harder.” She also told me I would be grounded for the weekend.

With that, my Mother told my sitter to sit and watch. The sitter watched Mother put me over her knee.

The spanking started. I cried and screamed and yelled at Mother to stop and kept saying I was sorry. My Mother really worked on my bottom – then I had to stand in the corner for about 30 minutes.

Afterwards, my Mother told the sitter that she had permission to spank me if I did not obey. My sitter’s face was full of relief.

I did get another spanking from the sitter the next day – she spanked just as hard. She had told me to take a bath and I refused. So she  spanked me with her hand. Later, she told my Mother that I had been spanked because I would not take a bath.

Mother came in my room and asked me why I had not done as I was told. I could not give her a reason, so she put me over her knee for another spanking. Afterwards, she told me that if I did not obey, not only would the sitter spank me, I would get it again from her.

Mother was very firm on this issue, and I had several subsequent trips over both my sitter’s and Mother ’s knees.