I attended a school while in the age range 8 years to 11 years where rather trivial corporal punishment was used regularly - especially by the headmaster and in front to the class as well. The miscreant would be called out, given their instruction which ended with the instruction "Touch your toes." - they would do so, usually get a single whack with the stick he used across the seat of their trousers and were then expected to stand and say "Thank you sir, I'm a good boy now."
With hindsight I don't imagine they hurt much at all but it was enough to keep people like me out of trouble because we didn't want to be called out, although the regular offenders clearly just got on with it. At the time I think we all realised that touching your toes wasn't easy for many and a lot got nowhere near, but we also realised that if you did, you would stretch your trousers, underpants and bottom more, and it would probably hurt more. But despite that, most of those summoned for what was termed a "beating" tried very hard to bend over as far as possible and if they could, they did actually touch their toes.    
Here are a few great examples from some top spanking websites where some supper spanking models have "gone the extra mile" with a very straight legged "touch your toes" position
That three word instruction still gets to me to this day! |
Sunday, 15 September 2013
"Touch your toes!"
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Oh yes, the article took me back down memory lane but only 1! Lucky you, 2 was an absolute minimum but more often 3. However, it stood me in good stead because an extra stroke was nearly always applied if one didn't touch the toes...and I can still do it with straight legs over 50 years later. Such life skills were taught more thoroughly than anything else I sometimes think.
I love the photographs.
Old Tom
That third picture of the girl in the green gymslip is particularly appealing. She has an absolutely gorgeous bottom.
Thanks for another fantastic post. Keep up the good work.
Cane to bare botties! Absolutely correct.
These photos are normal family scenarios - "spare the rod spoil the child".
I just adore the third photo, James, thank you. To me this is normal family life, as a Southern belle (or good lady now, I guess!) age 62, with a kind, conservative, 1950s mindset & as a mother of two wonderful daughters (now grown up, aged late 30s)
Why yes, bending over with dress raised & knickers pulled down just to knees for the cane on her bare buttocks is a good example of normal parental care, normal parental TLC or maternal due diligence in Georgia & the American South. The monikers of "tough love" & "spanking with love" also authentically denote the normality & appropriateness of this photo. And indeed the necessity of a well-smacked bottom.
This girl told lies to her mother. Lesson gotten learned. That is why it is called, "the seat of learning", James ?!
Incidentally, panties should always be pulled down to knees only in preparation for the cane at home - that is how my mother did it to my sister & me when we were naughty in the 1960s & &0s (all our childhood & teenage years). A bare botty is a bare botty! No need to remove panties. And sure no need to be spanked naked. I also disciplined my own two daughters with the cane from a young age in the 80s/90s and I always pulled their panties down to their knees, to bare their backsides. It was humbling but never humiliating. And as a practical no-nonsense mom I can say that the message with my ultra-flexible, spanking stick always gotten through most viscerally on a unprotected, bare-skinned surface!
Bare skin allows for a proper fierce but harmless sting (12 strokes was my standard application). It also confers safety. It underlines the gravity of the misbehaviour. At bedtime, my girls gotten their jammies pulled down to bare their bottoms, but they always gotten to keep their PJ tops on. I would never chastise them naked as I felt it was unnecessary & unkind. I also felt (from my childhood canings) that keeping your dress on, but with it raised up over your back; and with your knickers pulled down just to knees, really made you feel that your botty was vulnerable and bare for necessary, loving but Spartan chastisement as a result of misbehaviour. It created a psychological impact of why punishment was being appropriately awarded (in front of God with the rod) for a naughty daughter's actions!
Oh my! I sure have no truck with the wokerati folks' CP agenda, James. These photos above are just a normal aspect of family life & very much part of the routine CP culture in the American South. Just like they were in the UK & Europe in he 1950s-1990s. The cane on bare buttocks is nothing but utterly harmless!! I have a strong, practical, no-nonsense 1950s, Christian mother's philosophy of the appropriate of well-smacked bottoms in the privacy of loving homes. As my daughters will ruefully recall today...and now agree entirely with, already.
Thanks a bunch.
Strict Nostalgic Mom, Brenda xx
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