Back in the day (well, the late 90s/early 00s to be a bit more precise), a rather eye-catching advert ran regularly in certain select publications. These adverts were for The Rod. The Rod was pretty much a modern-day successor to the cane – a 22in long dowel made from flexible nylon, with a padded […]

My grandpa and grandma weren’t really farmers, but they had a small parcel of land at the back of their property with a few animals, which ran into dense woodland, which they harvested for fuel. When I was eight years old I was sent to stay with my grandparents for a few days while my […]

When I was in my formative years I had a girlfriend I really liked – but I didn’t like spending time at her house because we would always seemed to get into trouble. You might not think this was too bad. But Sally’s mom firmly believed in spanking and she was more than willing to […]

When I was growing up, after Mom divorced, we often visited my relatives in Minnesota. And often we stayed at my aunt’s place, a nice farm with a nice swimming pool in the backyard. Given that Minnesota has beautiful summers, and given my love for swimming, I often liked going to Aunt Jane’s for the […]

      My mother had been a keen equestrian, but when I was just six years old she was thrown from her horse (spooked by a passing car) and left in a wheelchair, paralysed from the waist down. Unlike the person in the other story, I was lucky enough to still have my dad […]

During the 1970s, when I was growing up, a smacked bottom was such a routine punishment for a naughty youngster that we children regularly included corporal punishment in our games, particularly playing ‘house’ or ‘school’. Despite the profusion of such stories on your website, I believe the number of kids who actually got smacked on […]

  Books offering advice on raising good, happy children have never exactly been in short supply – but two slim American volumes from the 1920s and 30s stand out starkly, not only for being firm advocates of spanking but also for going into great detail as to just how such discipline should be administered. The […]

  In my FORMATIVE YEARS, I had problems with bedwetting and was wearing diapers at night. Because of that, the only place I ever went to for sleepovers was with my best friend Hannah and her parents. Our parents were good friends and since we spent so much time at each other’s houses, our parents […]

I’d like to tell you about the first two times I gave a spanking.it was definitely not allowed and I suspect that had I been found out, I would have ended up getting rather than giving the punishment.I was at a sleepover birthday party with my two best friends, and we were playing truth or […]

  One of the most memorable spankings I ever witnessed happened to my older cousin Barb. She was the oldest cousin in our family and she was mean and bossy to all of her younger siblings and cousins. Barb and I get along great now, but when I was little I found her stuck-up and annoying. I […]