Holidays & Birthdays

How often does a special day like a holiday or birthday end up being synonymous with discipline? For many girls easter weekend and spring break meant coming back home to visit family. Others attended large family gatherings with relatives. And still others went on some sort of vacation trip. Whether the discipline is intended to correct issues that have come up while away, a reminder to behave in the future, to maintain good behavior on a vacation, or as necessary for misbehavior during family events, there are plenty of valid reasons for correction to occur on these special days.

There are of course some who feel that holidays should be a time of reprieve for girls who misbehave. Days like these can often be stressful though, and allowing a girl to act as she wants without any fear of punishment probably isn't a good idea. The majority of people probably treat holidays like any other day though for purposes of discipline.

I'm sure most people have heard of birthday spankings. A girl's birthday seems an appropriate day to spank her in front of family and possibly friends. It is a rare chance for her to be the center of attention, and presents a good setting to give her a reminder to behave through embarrassment. If you've heard the term "birthday suit" then you might see how it applies to this day. It makes sense for a girl to be wearing her birthday suit during her spanking, or for part or the whole of the day.

The attached art depicts a girl obviously arriving from college. This woman, possibly a mother, aunt, or grandmother, immediately takes her clothes and pulls her by the arm towards the woodshed, switch in hand. The suitcase on the ground and shocked look on the girl's face lets you know it happened as soon as she arrived. This was probably not the welcome she was expecting, but it is a fine way to help her remember the rules and consequences of breaking them, or even learning them for the first time, now that she will be staying there.

On a final note, I saw something interesting on Wikipedia regarding Easter. Here is a quote and a link to the page.

"In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, a tradition of spanking or whipping is carried out on Easter Monday. In the morning, men spank women with a special handmade whip called pomlázka (in Czech) or korbáč (in Slovak), or, in eastern Moravia and Slovakia, throw cold water on them. The pomlázka/korbáč consists of eight, twelve or even twenty-four withies (willow rods), is usually from half a meter to two meters long and decorated with colored ribbons at the end. It must be mentioned that spanking normally is not painful or intended to cause suffering. A legend says that women should be spanked in order to keep their health and beauty during whole next year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter

It certainly sounds like a fun tradition.