Spanking - what, when and where?

A fairly wide ranging question here; were the particular times, periods and occasions when you were more likely to get spanked? For example, did spankings happen more during the summer months than say the winter ones? And if so, why? Were there certain days of the week when you were more likely to get spanked? Were Saturdays and Sundays, when you were not at school, more likely to result in punishment than schooldays, when, due to being at school, you were obviously not at home all day! (Notwithstanding the fact that your butt was very much on the paddling radar at school itself!) LOL Did certain activities like church, family gatherings, shopping expeditions etc... make you particularly vulnerable to getting your butt roasted? Or were there any other patterns and situations pertaining to spanking?

The spankings occurred anytime really didn’t matter what time of year it was summer had its own issues by not coming home when suppose to to be places you shouldn’t be ..... winter time when inside a lot brought its fair share from arguing with sis to back talking or not getting your chores done and in a timely matter.... yes being at school all day helped my butt unless school work was lacking or cutting up in class or a note got sent home

Hi Dave, The patterns your spankings took were very similar to mine! In the summer time especially curfew violations accounted for a lot of the blistering's me and my siblings got! The rush to get home on time during those warm summer evenings when the temptation to stay out just a little bit longer often cost us! Or at least our butts anyway!! LOL The commotion when we got back to the house; Mom or Dad, sometimes both of them, standing arms akimbo in the doorway; the sound of raised voices - Mom's and Dad's scolding, me and my fellow siblings pleading and apologizing - were soon accompanied by the sound of paddle, hairbrush or hand connecting with bare flesh and our ensuing howls, protests and sobbing! This scene was played out in so many of the homes in the Southern community in which I grew up in in 60's and early 70's America. Winter brought its own perils to! When inevitably squabbles broke out between us kids and after the proverbial warning to "knock it off" or "cut it out" we pushed our parents to far and got our backsides roasted! These were the days when you were WARNED to either DO or NOT DO something; and failure to heed these warnings had painful consequences! Are, what memories!

Hard to answer completely. Spanked more during the school year because it lasted longer than summer break of course but also because it was hard to sit still in class for many of us and there were other boys to get into trouble with. Plus getting spanked at school meant getting spanked again at home if our parents found out and they usually did. Summers without school were more carefree and we were able to be outside more and away from our parents by a certain age so less supervised and less chances of getting into trouble. Still got spanked in the summer when we went too far or got on our parents' nerves by being at home so much more. Especially by the end of the summer when we were extra bored and more likely to get into trouble because we were bored. Our dad worked so he wasn't around to be annoyed but our mom was certainly ready for us to go back to school and it was easy to get on her nerves by the end. I remember a few times when she was annoyed enough to send us to our rooms to wait for our dad to get home and spank us even though I doubt that we were doing anything really bad. That happened only when she thought that we were too old for her to spank. Before that, we could end up over her knee getting a hard spanking and then sent off to a corner for an hour.

It happened more for me during the winter months when it was cold outside, there's less to do and supervision is more constant. I was spanked a lot on Saturday nights from November-March, because parents were home and anything that happened Friday at school or Saturday during the day was often punished for on Saturday night. Usually a paddling or the belt on bare bottom, sometimes in my room privately (well, the noise made it obvious), or in the den that was less private (if I was being spanked with a sibling, usually).

The summer brought plenty of punishment too, but that was more frequent- I'd get into trouble around the neighborhood and a hard spanking would be waiting for me at home when I got there.

I think summer Time was prime time for spanking since we had more time on our hands and plenty of opportunity for mischief. Holidays were probably a close second because we often had a house full of cousins and cabin fever.

Mine tended to happen more when my father had been drinking.

Hi Bob, Whether summer or winter, inside or outside, getting into mischief was surprisingly easy! The seemingly limitless opportunities for getting into trouble outside, and the restrictions on what you could do inside, both lead to numerous spankings and resulted in blistered butts!

From 20 years old to now my spankings have been for fore play and or punishment! Now that We are retired with an " Empty nest", My wife will spank me at any time while we are home. Besides my spankings for fore play and or punishment, I am spanked " Just because I can and because I want to! Started out with a novelty paddle I gave her for spanking me, she took to it like a " Duck to water"! Soon replaced by a bath brush, I must hold it when ever she is in the same room with me, and take it to bed with me. ( This adds to my humiliation ) I have a Love / Hate relationship with "MY brush! ( Wish she would be in charge of holding the brush before my spankings, at least sometimes!)

were the particular ... occasions when you were more likely to get spanked?

Hands down, report card days and especially evenings after P/T meetings.

My parents took school matters very seriously. My school did not spank, but dad totally made up for it at home with the paddle (age 10-13) and the belt (14-15). I'd say probably a half of my childhood spankings at home were due to school-related matters. If I got a behavior note from school or there was a call to parents from my homeroom teacher, or a poor report card, it pretty much meant a spanking at home.

What made a poor report card and whether it merited a spanking was decided by my parents. If they were seeing I was trying hard, they would not hold bad grades against me too much. (I may add that my mother was a middle school teacher, although not in the same school I and my brother went to, but another one, more distant from home.) But if they perceived bad grades as resulting from goofing off, then my prospects were more bleak. It all depended on how bad the grades were, if it was a continued pattern from the previous report card, if there were earlier notes home about not trying in class or about misbehaving at school, if the teacher wrote some notes in the report card... all those things that made my fate hang in the balance.

If I had recent behavior notes from school, this in particular increased a probability of spanking for bad grades. As my mother called it, "for bold behavior and quiet accomplishments".

There also were not too many P/T meetings after which I or my brother or sometimes us both did not get our bottoms spanked good. P/T meetings were always a big jeopardy for me and my brother, because that was when our parents could learn about things at school (our behavior and studying... or rather misbehavior and non-studying) that we have been trying to conceal, and did manage to conceal from parents until the meeting. And then our parents would learn about it all at once, resulting in a cumulative effect and causing peak wrath.

Furthermore, teachers at my school at the time were not as "politically correct" and did not try to put a nice or politely sounding face on the problems with kids' behavior or school effort when talking to parents, they talked in a very straightforward and critical way. And furthermore, I think teachers were (naturally for them) focusing on the problems, rather than the overall picture, or rather there was a bias towards the problems, so parents may have been getting a somewhat biased picture, without realizing it.

And when our parents were back from the P/T meeting (dad usually was the one to go) they took me and my brother to account for everything they learned about us during the meeting.

My brother and I were one grade apart at school, so P/T meetings for our classes were on different days, however P/T meetings for my brother's class were also a jeopardy for me, because my homeroom teacher was also one of the teachers for Tim's class, and more often than not she was present at my brother's class P/T meetings, and when my dad (or mom) attended Timmy's class P/T meeting they also inquired her about my progress and behavior too.

And when my dad was back from the P/T meeting with an unfavorable view of my or my brother's school effort and behavior, there'd be a big lecture, and we were sent to fetch the paddle from the closet.

No one day of the week or season or anything seemed like it was more or less likely to get a spanking. Growing up, we were spanked for basically anything. My biggest offense was my mouth. But I'd also get it for bad grades (so I generally knew to expect a spanking whenever report cards came out), not doing chores, breaking curfew, or any other childhood/teenage misbehavior.

I got it in the summer and winter spring and likely fall (thinking about it don’t remember a fall spanking, but sure I do t recall them at off the top of my head. I do remember several on Saturday and one on Sunday, but I am not sure if I got more on a weekend or not. My parents were heavier than ideal drinkers, but I can say I was more likely to be spank if he was stone cold sober than if he had been drinking.