It was at the time grandmother came for an extended visit. She was nice to have around but was clearly a no-nonsense person, who rather dominated my mother. One day, my brother and I got home late from a trip to the mall and my mother was very upset. She announced that we were to […]
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Lateness Brushed Away Then the Caned
When I was in my late teens, I traveled to Jamaica with my mother and younger sister to visit my aunt, who worked in the tourist industry on the island. We kids had a wonderful time down there – but one day we got into big trouble with my aunt’s son, who was about to head […]
Drawing from Discipline
Like many of my friends growing up in the early 1970s, I was spanked for misbehaviour. It wasn’t a big deal. Mother would give me a few swats on the seat for minor infractions like talking back, and put me over her knee with my jeans or shorts down if the offence was more serious. […]
Bears, Caves, A Campsite & Aunts Paddle
My name is Andrew and this happened a long time ago. In the summer myself and my sister Diane, our favourite aunt and uncle rented a camp site at a nearby state park for three months. They had a fold-down tent trailer for themselves and several good-sized tents that they pitched for their three […]
Longing to be Caned
During the 1970s, the cane was quite often in use at the primary school I attended, although one had to be pretty badly behaved to warrant its attention, or that of the headmaster. Although I never received the cane myself, I learned from several other pupils who had that the routine for its application was […]
Domestic Magazine for the English Woman
Anyone with an interest in cookery of any sort will have heard of the renowned Mrs Beeton. You may have heard less of her husband – a publisher whose output deserves some attention from those of us devoted to the disciplinary arts. Isabella Mayson married Samuel Beeton in 1856 and Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household […]
Visits of the Unexpected
I am from Germany, and grew up being cared for by my grandmother. She was always very loving to me – except when I did something wrong. When that happened, I only ever received one kind of punishment – a spanking on my bottom. This was usually administered with a cane – my grandmother was […]
Sore Points in the Granny Flat
I was raised by my grandmother and she was very strict. Once a year I was allowed to go on vacation to stay with my favourite aunt. The latter never hit me, and the change in regime was always very welcome. In a ‘granny flat’ within my aunt’s home lived her elderly mother-in-law, called Margot. […]
Jamaican House Mom
I have written before about Ingrid, the Jamaican housekeeper and nanny who was in full charge of the younger ones discipline in our house, and how she spanked me with both her hand and the belt whenever I was naughty enough to have earned a whipping. As I mentioned before, she had spanked her own […]
A treat for my sister
One evening, both my parents had to work late, and so I was left in the care of my sister Rebeca, who is only four years older than myself. Early in the evening, I went out for a while to play with some of my friends. Unfortunately, I lost track of time and I got […]