We were not allowed to play baseball in our yard, for the windows of the house were made of leaded glass, partitioned in diamond shapes. The house had been built in 1850, so things were delicate. My father had said that gentle wiffle ball was OK over by the large bushes along the fence, but […]

My brother Jeff and I are only 13 months apart and we were raised almost like twins. We had only each other for the first five years of my life, except for an occasional visit from the children of the friends of visitors to tea. Their nannies were usually with them, as was ours, so […]

Spankings at my house were not rare and all of us – my younger sis and two younger brothers – were all spanked into our teens. This story is about one of the last spankings my youngest brother got, and the last spanking I saw at my house. My boyfriend and I got married soon […]

The youngest memory I have is a short one. I cannot tell you how old I was, but my mother said I was very little – a young three, perhaps. I took scissors, as many children do, and gave myself a haircut. I described in one of my earlier accounts that I looked and acted […]

I’ve already told you how I got paddled for passing notes in class – this is the story about what happened when I got home that day, with an already sore bottom. As I noted in my previous story, prior to being paddled that day at school, I had not been spanked in over two years. I […]

The most embarrassing punishment I ever received happened when I was 11 years old. At the time. my mother, nine-year-old brother and I were taking swimming lessons at our local community pool. We usually stayed behind for a while after our lessons, and while my brother and I splashed around in the ‘non-swimmers’ pool, my […]

Betty is a mother of three from Arizona. At the time of interview, her two daughters were aged nine and ten, and she also had a 10-year-old stepdaughter. Are your children defiant when they are told they are going to get a spanking? Yes, sometimes they are. My children, like all children, hate getting spanked, […]

The following conversation was found somewhere on the web some years ago – a group of now young women discussing memories of getting their bottoms spanked for wetting their pants. Amy: When I was in kindergarten, we had to line up outside after lunch. When we were about to go in, I had to pee really […]

As a parent (and, perhaps, particularly as a mother), you become surprisingly and quickly inured to the least glamourous aspects of bringing up children – dribble, snot, wee and poo. That said, I don’t think there’s anyone who could genuinely say they enjoy changing a dirty nappy and it’s a great relief when they can […]

The following story and picture originally appeared on a Singapore-based blog. In it, the writer reveals how she bought a cane for her son when he was quite young, and has found it helpful in maintaining family discipline. By Mandy Loh This topic has been on my heart for the longest time, but I was […]