My name is Mandy My name is Mandy and I am a very old women, frail but still alert! I have been...

I agree I grew up in South Africa and was spanked often at home and caned at school.
As a mother (my children now all grown up), I was spanked often as a child and spanked my children when they deserved it. My late husband and I spanked each other often as part of foreplay before sex.

Sharon · F

The slipper was in daily use when I was at school. There weren't many lessons where no one in the class got it. There was usually quite a queue for it whenever homework was due in.

jackcros · 70-79, M

Mandy, I am 76 and my youth was very similar to yours. A sound spanking was considered to be good parenting in those days and was used by all parents that I knew.

SeekingConnection · 61-69, M

I find it fascinating that you and evidently many others like you have such nostalgia for the discipline you experienced in your youth, despite how painful and embarrassing those experiences must have felt at the time. The more I read and think about these things, the more I feel that society has seriously lost its way. In the space of my adult lifetime, the discipline that used to be thought of as natural, normal and necessary has become the worst thing imaginable, yet at the same time children are growing up with no freedom to play, explore their surroundings or interact naturally with their peers at all. It's hardly surprising that depression and mental illness are increasing massively.