My name is James Kelly and I’m 29 years old. I have a beautiful daughter by the name of Alyssa. Her mother Claire and I are a happy couple and they’re the apple of my eye.

Alyssa is six and a very active child. She does well in school and is liked by everyone. She has a thing with sports: she just can’t sit still! Dancing, running, swimming, doesn’t matter as long it’s *fast*. That’s fine, we are sporty people ourselves. The only big rules are “no running in the living room”, and of course “no stealing” and “no lies”. Alyssa doesn’t always respect those.

My wife and I don’t particularly favour corporal punishment. We think that spanking a child because they talk back or don’t have straight A’s or say a bad word is silly. But we want Alyssa to grow up knowing she must abide by the rules, even those she doesn’t agree with.

When Alyssa breaks one of the few rules we have, she is spanked. She *hates* spankings, and to make it easier on her we came up with the spanking shorts. They’re worn jean shorts that Alyssa loves, so we decided that whenever she is to be punished, “her shorts will be spanked, while she wears them”. It does work, believe it or not. It’s not necessary to bare her bottom anyway.

Alyssa still hates to be spanked, and that’s of course the whole point, but wearing those shorts gives her courage. She tries to keep from crying until the very last moment, and climbs across our lap in silence. When we tell her again why she’s getting a spanking she usually starts weeping softly. Then we understand it’s time to get it over with.

Spankings aren’t a big deal per se, but they sure look like it to her. We smack her bum cheeks alternatively. We don’t hit the bare flesh of her thighs, though we threaten to do so if she doesn’t take her spanking well. She always has. We don’t have a pre-set number of swats either, but we spank maybe twenty or thirty times, pretty firmly. According to her, it’s “the hardest ever”!

With the spanking over, we know Alyssa doesn’t want to be held, cuddled or kissed. She’s a very strong-willed child, and we think she kicks herself a lot for disappointing us and earning a spanking. So she wants to be left alone while she cries herself to sleep, either on her bed or on the couch. At first we were worried, feared that she might hate us, but seeing how much she hugs and kisses us just a few hours later, we learned to indulge this little oddness of hers.

I don’t think we’ll continue to spank her for long, also because the phrase “I’m spanking your shorts when you misbehave: if you’re wearing them, it’s your problem” won’t last long! She’s getting too old anyway. We’re just glad to have such a lovely daughter, and we can only hope we’re doing the right thing.

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