As a boy growing up in the 50s, I was used to getting the slipper from my father, as I suspect were many other children of that tie. The punishment definitely hurt but was not too bad. However, at 11 years old, I went through a phase of wetting the bed. My mother told my […]

Most who grew up in a wealthy family may write to you and speak of maids, governesses, staff – we did not have that. We had a cleaner, but everything else was handled by my parents. We lived in a six-bedroom house in London. With only two children and my parents, this left three bedrooms […]

I have written up ‘my story’ and hope you approve. There is a preamble introduction that sets the scene if you like, In the late 1970s, the world was a very different place. At the time, I worked in a large office, and corporate culture in the office was also very different to modern England. […]

I remember very clearly the day when our school punishment straps were collected by the council for destruction. It was 1985, and my local education authority had decided to jump before they were pushed. We had a special assembly discussing corporal punishment and its end in local schools. The headmistress was a dour middle-aged woman […]

I know you get frequent stories from those of us raised within the upper echelons of society – here is another! I hope to sound less stuffy than some: I’m not a rich, conservative lady who married into more money, had a son and daughter and immediately sent them off to boarding school. I’m a […]

What a brilliant site! Well done, Maman – long may you continue. My own spanking history really begins in the first year of junior school. I would have been seven years old. From my desk, I could see the road outside the school. I was mad about buses, the old Routemaster being my favourite. I was also […]

I’m sure most of us have been embarrassed by our mothers at one time or another, and my own mum caused me much embarrassment at a family celebration fairly recently. There was, however, a happy ending. Our family was enjoying a day in the in-laws garden, celebrating a wedding anniversary. There was a little boy […]

My family consisted of a younger sister and older brother, while our neighbour’s family was made up of two boys (one younger, one the same age as me) and a girl who was older than me. Us kids usually spent a lot of time together and we usually had great fun. But there was one occasion […]

I’m 60 now, so what I am about to write happened a long while ago, but the memory is as strong today as it ever was. I grew up through the 1960s, went to school from 1967 and left in the mid 70s. Smacked bottoms and/or legs were common at school. Some teachers were a bit smack […]

When I was about 16, my aunt moved back to the United States with her two boys, who were 14 and 17 at the time. My aunt had worked for many years in South Africa, and had raised the boys by caning them when they misbehaved. She didn’t have to cane them often but when […]