A Mixed School 1

In the 1980s, many state schools and some private schools were switching from being single sex schools to taking male and female pupils. For many girls the idea of entering a long established boys grammar school was extremely daunting. Pauline D reflects on her memories of her first term in the sixth form of such […]

Julie

My stepmom Julie was a stern disciplinarian. Shortly after she married my dad, she insisted on having an active role in my discipline, and dad who travelled a lot on his job conceded to her demands.  Although dad had occasionally spanked me, when Julie assumed the task, I was spanked more frequently . Hardly a […]

The pond – and big trouble

The incident I want to tell you about this time happened when I was eight years old. Our church held a barbecue in one of the local parks. In that park was a duck pond. However, all us kids were strictly forbidden to go near it without adult supervision, for obvious safety reasons. After eating […]

Hairbrush for a runaway

I’m now 37 years old and grew up in the neighbourhoods around the New Zealand city of Dunedin. I was spanked by my mum until the age of about seven or eight. All of my spankings occurred toward the late 1980s. Back then, spankings were a commonplace punishment for both naughty boys and girls here […]

Spanked during the sleepover

As I’ve mentioned in previous contributions, right up until I was around 10 years old 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 […]

Smacked Bottom Games 4

This sounds so familiar. I was a child of the 70s and early 80s. Like you say, despite evidence on here, CP was on the wane at home. However it was still a constant threat at school. So I would always try and engineer school games with friends. Every now and then it would be […]

Smacked bottom games 2

Those games sound rather fun. I never got to play anything quite as daring as that. However, I do have one fond recollection from my childhood about smacking games. In the late 1970s, I was just starting primary school, and when I was six, there was a pretty blonde five-year-old girl called Amanda in my […]

Smacked bottom games 1

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 […]