Well, most people I know who were subject to spanking while growing up do remember being put over their parents knees. In fact, this position is so widely known that it is, and I believe not only in Germany, almost a synonym for spanking, as in “I will put you over my knee”. If there is one classical position when administering such forms of discipline, this is it.
I have spent time over both my parents knees. My father would change to more appropriate over-his-desk punishments when I became ten, but my mother did continue over the knee spankings for some time. It is those smackings I will write about now.
I remember those moments well, looking (sometimes through a cloud of tears) at the carpet, head hanging down; a pair of legs on the other side, sometimes hanging down, sometimes fidgeting a little. One arm probably streched out forward, the other secured by mothers firm grip on my back. The highest point of the body: the bottom, just ready for discipline. Bare or covered with knickers, always the feeling of cool air touching the (almost) unclothed part, that is now to receive warmth.
And then… WHAM. The slipper strikes. Left cheek. Heat spreads. WHAM, right cheek. My face flushes even more, as does – so I suppose – my bottom. And then the smacks rain down. Until I am sobbing, crying, promising to be a good girl now. And honestly feeling that, too.
Those were the days, then. Over the knee smackings are not so formal, they allow a parent for caring discipline. Oh, you didn’t enjoy being over your mothers lap, I can tell you. But if you went there, you knew it was well deserved. No matter if you were 4 or 14, mother would do what needed…
Stefanie von Platen-Wilhelms 
hmmm…, some might remember!!
a perfect place, for brats (of any age)…
Oh yes, it is a most intimate way of punishing. I love taking my naughty man over my lap, though he dosen’t enjoy what happens when he’s there! But it is something he sometimes needs, so I spank him. Men need a bit of mothering now and then, and part of mothering is discipline…
You have captured one of the best moments of a spanking, the intimacy and the closeness as well as the necessary punishment. So now it time fo you to go over dad’s knee.
That is how I was spanked as a kid and that is how I spanked my kids. And that is how I spank the girls in my life today!
Hi. I totally agree with your comments regarding OTK spanking. I was spanked by my mother as a child through to my mid-teens during the late 1950’s and 60’s. She always spanked over her knee, and always on the bare bottom. Whilst it stung at the time, the mixture of emotions have remained with me ever since, along with a lifetime fascination in spankming, and being spanked.
Yes Stefanie, although I was subject to spankings I remember the special strange feelings I would have whenever I saw or heard of “the girls” receiving a spanking. The combination of embarrassment, humiliation, fear, sensuality, loss of control, and pain that I knew the girl was sufferring imprinted my “erotic zone”. In the 50s and 60s we accepted the reality of the punishment. We appreciated that we were not on the receiving end but also intimately felt the other young person’s feelings, “having been there”.
Well I never had an OTK spanking by my mother, or at least one I can remember, she left most of the spanking to my father and it was almost always with a “hickory switch”. Some were pretty painful, and you are right about promising to be good, I always did. But I think think it taught me a very important lesson, and that was, if you do something wrong there are always consequences.
Stefanie, excellent description. My mum sure broke some spoons on my bum the first 16 years of my life, it was always over her knee.
You, Stefanie, are one of the best describers of a spanking session.
Such a lovely memory! My mother spanked me until I was 15 or 16, and it was almost always over her lap, on my bare bottom with a paddle. They hurt quite a lot and I certainly didn’t like them, but all were well deserved.
I have spent a lot of time over mom’s knees, frequently having good doses of her rubber or leather soled bedroom slipper, she spanks me ever over her lap, sometimes wearing sexy baby dolls or pijamas. My dad spanked me too, but with less frequency; he belts my bare bottom me being putted over bed with one or two pillows under my tummy.
I have my last spanking at 17, and I feel that 99% were well deserved and necessary. Now I spank my two daughters (14 and 16) over my knees too.
A very nice and expresive blog. Reading it, i have a lot lovely-painful remembers with my experiences, beingo over my mom knees or my head between my aunt powerful thigs for a vey long-hard travel to “spanko-land”
A kiss.
4, 14 or even 24 yo imho 🙂
and, with no fetish for tose few sickos, also on daddy’s lap…
es war bei mir ganz genau so wie du es beschreiben hast,den Popo blank gemacht bekommen ,mutter legte uns rüber und haute uns mit der Hand oder dem Kochlöffel durch ( da gingen einige zu Bruch!) Trotzdem bin ich ihr dafür dankbar.Erst heute nach vielen Jahren weis ich welche Bedeutung dieses über den mütterlichen Schoß gelegt zu werden und den Popo voll zu bekommen,hat.
a wonderful accountment .i enjoy your writings
Oh yeah .. those were the days alright! Being spanked over mum/dad’s knee for .. ‘breathing the wrong way’ it always felt like! I spilled something, I ate everything but mushrooms however THEY decided I had to eat them, so another spanking and on and on.
Whether they knew their own strength or not matters not now, at the time, I was screaming in agony with either hand or slipper after having my little panties ripped down. They didn’t finish till I was almost unable to breathe. I couldn’t forgive them, love them, they lost my respect and love too. I couldn’t trust them. I never told anyone except my grandmother who was horrified, because I was embarrassed and somehow even at say 5 understood that it would change nothing.
And it only taught me fear, trauma, terror, and anger and hate. All this .. in a tiny child who was so quiet and so well behaved anyway and so … UNangry normally !!
I never spanked. Discipline is about teaching not battering. Spanking is instant .. and easy .. but doesn’t teach the children WHY just how to avoid spanking by being ever more devious! What I have never understood is, if you spank your children once … and they do the same ‘crime’ it obviously doesn’t work – so WHY would you keep on doing something useless until teenhood ?? I taught my children and they grew up fine, and I now have two grandchildren who are not being spanked or beaten! They are even more of a pleasure to be with and they are only 2 years and 5 years old!