Dear Michael, Your message of yesterday was buried deep in the Bare Behinds thread. It is a beautifully written, heartfelt piece and to give it the prominence it deserves, I have copied it and started a new thread. Michael wrote: Long term consequences. June 4 2003, 11:14 PM Dominum – and maybe it was his […]
Domestic Discipline
Experience of the Slipper
Please Click Here to Listen to the Audio Recording Felipe was to be slippered, for an incident at school I had nothing to do with. Although I did not witness his thrashing directly, I heard it all right. It was severe, more severe than the first one. I sat on my bed and listened from […]
A Stern Mother of Presbyterian Stock
I don’t believe I was especially naughty as a child – at least, no more than any other boy of my particular age group. Unfortunately my mother – of stern, unyielding Presbyterian stock – disagreed. In her sincere and honest belief that to spare the rod was to spoil the child, she ensured that anything other […]
Friends Reunited now, Catholic Church then
Just watched a news story about a massive meeting of Catholic Bishops for the purpose of addressing child abuse in the Catholic church. Now, of course, this is happening because the Church had an horrific record of hiding knowledge of abuse, and protecting the abusers, using every trick under the sun. Now compare this with […]
Aunty Janet takes Matters into her Own Hands
Many years ago, much to the annoyance of my mother, I used to run upstairs to my bedroom most evenings after school to change into my football kit. I usually ignored her warning of ‘do you want a smacked bottom?’ as she rarely put me over her knee when I was being naughty. However, one […]
P is for Paddle
My mother was a sixth grade teacher from the time she graduated in the 1970s until she retired five or six years ago. When she began her career, corporal punishment was still very much an option and it could be carried out by the teacher in the classroom. My mother had a large classroom-style paddle […]
Loving Discipline
Please Click Here to Listen to the Audio Recording Our family were regular churchgoers. Not only did we go every Sunday, but on and every Thursday night, I attended a Junior Club there. It began at 7 pm, finished at nine and at the conclusion I had to take the bus home by myself. One […]
Back To Common Sense: Note and Preface
The following text is an introductory note and preface to Beatrice Reinhart’s 1937 book Back To Common Sense, a child training manual emphatically advocating the practice of spanking, and going into great detail as to how it should be done. As stated in our special report into the book’s background, it owes a great deal to a 1920s […]
Spanking by the book
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 first […]
Finally on the bare
When I was a boy, my mother kept a strap that she would use to chastise me once in awhile. She usually gave me between 15 and 25 licks when she thought I needed it. The strapping was always done through the seat of my pants but even fully clothed, it still stung a lot. […]