All of his Michael’s mom’s friends seemed to know he was still spanked especially since Aunt Sheila talked about it so openly.
Some of Aunt Sheila’s friends seemed to go out of the way to embarrass him by asking direct questions about his last spanking.
If that weren’t enough, there was the demerit chart and slipper his mother hung conspicuously on the kitchen wall (again, just like my mother).
If any visitor inquired, they always got a detailed explanation.
Not that they needed any explanations.
One side of the slipper had the words “Michael’s slipper” clearly printed in large black letters.
Demerit charts linked to a weekly spanking hour seem to have been more common in Southern homes before the sixties.
On my mother’s side of the family, they went back two or three generations.
In many ways, the chart was a special monthly calendar, with a page for each month.
Aunty Sheila’s Slipper Punishment10
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School Belt34
When I was caught with a cigarette box I hid in my socks, you can’t imagine what discipline I...
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Tawse and Strap2
I’ve never seen a speck of evidence to suggest girls were ever strapped or caned on the rear by...
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The Cane and the Double Standard7
A year later, now at “big school” where it soon became clear that corporal punishment was used much more...
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School Corporal Punishment History40
Unabashed by post-Freudian anxieties about physical contact, the old propensity to hit boys was part of a broader enthusiasm...
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Views on Suspect Teachers from the Good Old Days42
The only school I am aware of post-1980 – what I might call the modern Equal Opportunity era –...
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School Discipline Dreams4
A variation was a piano lesson in which each wrong note earned a similar penalty, who knows I could...
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Punished for Bad School Report3
For me, the fear and threat of the strap would have detracted from all of those good things and...
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Mrs Wilkins35
When Billy asked how they could fake it, Johnny reminded him of the old “thermometer by the lamp” trick....