One of my most vivid memories of being spanked happened a few weeks after I turned seven. It was a warm, late summer day and my mother and I were out with some other young mothers with children my age. Apparently, she decided at some point that it was time for us to go – […]

Some of you may have already read my contribution to the Mothers Talking series – I’d like now to tell you about the discipline I was subject to myself as a girl. While I was growing up, I was subject to frequent spankings from both my parents, mostly over the knee with my knickers down. When I […]

I am a 40-year-old woman who lives in Buffalo, NY, where I grew up. I am the oldest of four. I have a sister two years younger and brothers five and eight years younger. Though spankings were less in fashion during my childhood, my parents were definitely firm believers in their effectiveness and all four […]

When I was seven and Jeff was six, mother had bought us new coats for Easter and we were invited to tea on Easter afternoon at the Potters. Our coats matched, even though his had buttons that worked differently and no belt at the back of the waist. Each of us had black velvet collars, […]

The summer between 9th and 10th grade, we went as a family – mom, dad, me and my younger sister and two younger brothers – to Scotland to visit my grandmother, my dad’s mother. We flew to Scotland in July and stayed for the month with my grandmother. I was not especially happy to be […]

Shortly before I turned 14, I convinced my mother that I was too old to go to camp anymore. My mom had taken on a part-time job and was working several days a week. My dad, who was a tradesman, was working on a large, out-of-town construction project that kept him away from home for […]

I grew up the oldest of four, with a sister two years younger and brothers five and eight years younger. Though my parents were 1960s liberal types, they were anything but when it came to raising kids, and both were firm believers in the effectiveness of a warm bottom in maintaining discipline. Spankings in our […]

After I moved to the United Kingdom, I got to know Georgia, a tall and slim black woman with three children. Georgia was an high-earning academic and a determined single parent. Both at work and at home, she carried herself with a ‘no-nonsense attitude’ and had a natural inclination to be dominant and strict. Georgia […]

Andrea is an American mother living in a small, rural town. She has two daughters, who at the time of interview were aged eight and five. Can we start by talking about your own upbringing? I presume you were spanked as a girl? Who did it, and how was it administered? Yes, I was spanked when […]

I think I must have been around six years old and in my kindergarten class. It was winter time and I was wearing pantyhose under my dress that day. It had been snowing a lot and outside in the school yard was a large heap of snow which had been cleared from the ground. Us […]