Corner Time

When I was at school CT and hands on head CT was very much in use especially in primary school. It is clear few, if any of you, have small children. 'Naughty corner', or 'naughty step' are in common use even if they have more PC names than that (mustn't use 'naughty). Many schools still use a variety of 'time out' techniques and all of them are only variations on a theme and essentially the same propose as CT. We use CT with our children as a calming measure although not linked to spanking. However, it really isn't a big stretch of imagination to link the two so......

I don't know how many of us have actually done corner-time? It's a lot more difficult than it sounds, and even 20 minutes, when you cannot look at a watch, seems an age. It really is quite a significant punishment it its own right.

I saw kids put in the corner at school, generally younger grades and you could also be put in a spot away from the rest of the class and not allowed to interact with them for a short period. It even happened once in 7th grade with one kid, although it was more the embarrassment factor that worked than the actual sending to the corner in that case.

Corner time was used as a punishment in Sweden 100 years ago. The Swedish word for it is skamvrå, it means literally corner of shame.

I guess maths would depend on whether we're talking various kinds of it. Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction, Algebra etc... That's mathematics. In this case I would have used math. I agree with CS. It doesn't make any difference what side of the road you drive on, as long as it's legal and as long as you get where you're going.

Now as for getting back on the original topic: No corner time for me either. I did sometimes get sent for a nap after a good spanking, or sent to sit down on the sofa and BE QUIET or get another.

B

Cornertime at school was a regular thing, though seen as a punishment in it's own right and not an addition to CP.
Once at secondary school, one lad who seemed more interested in the netball going on outside than our class, was sent outside to join in the game with the girls!
Now that was an odd punishment.

I would say that's cheating him out of an education. In class anyway. It's funny, I remember watching the girls play field hockey while I was sitting in class. Darn it!!! I never got caught.

B

Corner time was a somewhat frequent experience in my elementary school, sometimes supplemented (usually only for boys and in higher grades, I'd guess 5-8) with some other punishment like holding a ruler out straight, or holding a book in each hand. Spanking was less common although it did happen on occasion but never bare bottomed, for sure. We weren't spanked at home nor did we get corner time, but at least a couple of my friends got both, though as best I know at least, corner time was not done with pants and undies down. And in one case I witnessed more than few members of that family in the corner at various times during my childhood. One family used it as an alternative to spankings or maybe for lesser offenses, while the other used it as part of the pre-spanking routine...

In my elementary school, primarily in kindergarten, or first and second grade, misbehaving children were told to sit/stand in the corner with a dunce cap on. I also remember children being made to sit in/on one of those small metal school garbage cans, also facing the corner. (OK, by "children," I am including myself). No spankings were ever involved with those punishments. Still, after those embarrassing corner time punishments, its a wonder any of us have any esteem left at all!

i got time outs in the corner as a young child up to about 6 both after a spanking or just to give me a minute to calm down also the nuns sent us there when we misbehaved (no spanking was allowed)

as an adult i always had the corner after a spanking ,sometimes during usually if he changed implements and rarely before ... i hate it but think its effective and booooooooooring