It would mean an entry in the school punishment book, which would blacken my otherwise excellent behaviour record. A man who spanked his 9-year-old son is shocked to be charged with child abuse, an accusation his lawyer describes as unwarranted. but here we are witnessing a loving mother, doing what in that time of history, what was expected, in the rearing a daughter.

United States: TV news report, Oct 2011: reactions to new law in North Carolina under which parents may exempt their students from CP. It was one such conversation that made her not even notice her form teacher walk into the classroom. As I dressed, she watched me closely and said sternly: “I sincerely hope I never have to discipline you again, John.As a Disciplinarian while I always believe in making the punishment fit the crime, I have developed a slight preference for the swishier, stingier canes and am always on the lookout for new examples to add to my Armoire Armoury!

New Zealand: TV news item (2007) about a Christian school that tried to evade the ban on corporal punishment by having parents come to the school to administer a paddling. She had fetched her cane from somewhere and was standing there impatiently, tapping the side of her leg with it. I suggest you stand up straight, and if you can't keep your hands from pulling at your shirt tails, you'd better take it off altogether. As I say, personally I had very little sympathy – my own bottom still stung from my unwarranted trip across Mrs Watsons knee. I can spank and discipline you for your wrongdoings in your past and re-enact childhood events in which you were bad and should have been punished at the time.Well, it might feel like eons since my own schooldays, back at Saint Frances College only a few miles from here, but I suppose I can confess there were one or two occasions in my youth where I learned that old idiom for the lie that it's always been. Mrs Hamilton went on to say she had reduced my punishment to a spanking because she could see that caning me would serve no useful purpose (in other words, she could see I was shit scared!

I can be your mother figure, your Auntie, your neighbour, your boss, your teacher, your prison guard or anyone else in a position of authority over you. Thailand: A video of the caning of a boy in front of his class which attracted media attention in 2013. There had been the usual frantic dash to gather up books, bags and PE kit and now, in the calm aftermath of that storm, this late afternoon appointment was to be the final act in a performance upon which the curtain had risen twelve weeks previously in a January house tutorial meeting. Genuinely sorry to have disappointed her, Thomas had seemed eager to reassure, but before he could reply, Miss Sternwood had risen from her seat and retrieved something long and slender from a hand-sized gap that was conveniently, but quite discreetly, left open between two of her bookcases. Syria/Iraq: Whippings by insurgent forces, including ISIS, who at the time had taken control of parts of both countries.I wasn’t sure what it was all about, but my brother’s words of warning were figuratively ringing in my ears. As a senior boy you are likely to find the situation embarrassing, it will not be pleasant, and in the immediate aftermath I very much doubt that you will thank me for it. If not then your Aunty or Mum will resort to her favourite domestic implements, which include her Strap, Slippers and dreaded Hairbrush as well as the odd Cane or two.

Make no mistake, even for a senior, six strokes of the cane will be a very salutary lesson and, you can take it from me, it's going to be a lesson that you will not forget in a hurry. Safe in the knowledge that our country was safe in the hands of good schools, good parents, and keen scholars. The cane was drawn back and up high, and I watched without moving or breathing as it flashed down to meet C’s buttocks with every ounce of strength Mrs Watson could muster. My afternoon lessons were very uncomfortable, and concentrating was difficult because my bum was so sore. In contrast, Thomas had been reduced to a humble figure, abjectly resigned to his fate and standing meekly before her.She doubted he would be be feeling quite so thankful in a few minutes time, or indeed for the next few days, but she was glad to have addressed the formalities. United States: TV news report, Oct 2008: Corporal punishment is illegal in Chicago schools, but it turns out that sports coaches at several schools there have been paddling students. United Kingdom: A three-minute TV item in which a caning headmaster, and three caned boys, are interviewed (1996). Singapore: Real-life footage of four formal, English-style canings over bending schoolboys' trousers.