When I was nine and my brother six, we were caught stealing sweets from our local store. The shopkeeper knew our mother well and told her that this was not the first time he had caught us and he would report us to the police if it happened again. Mother was furious and dragged us […]

When I was 16 years old, Mom surprised me with my first spanking from her in three years. It came about as a result of a spanking I was given in school, by the school librarian. The librarian had given me a spanking earlier in the week for not returning a book which was three […]

I was in the second year of senior school, so I’d be 12. I needed a new winter coat and one day, when I got home from my lessons, my mother excitedly told me that she’d been out and bought me one. To my horror, she brought out this black donkey jacket, of the type […]

Down the street from us lived a boy named Eddy. We were not supposed to play with him, because he came from a very different kind of background. Nanny called it ‘breeding’. Eddy was allowed to run freely through the neighbourhood and had several brothers and sisters, who we all knew in the neighbourhood as […]

This is going to be quite a short contribution, as I can’t really single out a particular incident of corporal punishment from my boyhood, but I wanted to tell you a little bit about my mum’s use of the cane. I am the younger of two boys. Mum always believed in corporal punishment, and we […]

When I was 10 years old, I was extremely fond of the old radio shows that came on late on Sunday afternoons – The Shadow, Inner Sanctum and others. They started at 4pm and every Sunday I could be found lying on my stomach, drawing with my coloured pencils as I listened to the shows. […]

I have been reading through many of your stories and find it very interesting to learn about how others were raised and punished by their parents. I was born in the 1980s – spanking was on the way out of fashion but despite that, I was spanked both by my parents and also a few times […]

Imogen is a 60-year-old English grandmother. She has just the one son, Michael, who was no stranger to a sore bottom during his formative years. Tell us about your own experiences of motherhood. Well, I brought up my son Michael on my own, which was difficult. Being a young single mum was hard back in […]

Mary is a mother of three children. At the time of this interview, her son was 12 and her two daughters 14 and 15 respectively. Can we start with you telling us about your own upbringing? Were you spanked as a girl, who did it and how was it done? How did that influence your […]

Mary is a mother of three children. At the time of this interview, her son was 12 and her two daughters 14 and 15 respectively. Can we start with you telling us about your own upbringing? Were you spanked as a girl, who did it and how was it done? How did that influence your […]