Sunday Service and Sunday School attendance in childish clothes. Consequences for speaking without permission
It was the first Sunday of the month yesterday and my ongoing discipline of having to spend the day including attendance at Sunday School dressed in childish clothes continues as penance for my poor attitude at Easter.
I was spared the woollen undergarments of the last couple of months although my vest and knickers were appropriately childish.
The ladies on the Mother's Union have been busy making appropriately childish garments to wear and once again I found myself dressed like a six year old and not spared the humiliation of a wool cardigan.
One of my younger sisters-in-law ensured I was not spared any detail to make my childish position clear putting my hair in two high bunches tied with pale pink ribbons to match my awful frilly pale pink dress.
She selected matching knitted white wool bonnet and mittens to complete my humiliation.
She ensured my mittens were firmly tied at the wrists so that I could not remove them without assistance.
It was a very warm morning so my childish appearance and confinement to woollens more appropriate for winter ensured my humiliated status was clear to everyone as we walked to Church and to other members of our congregation.
I cannot describe my embarrassment and humiliation of having to attend the junior Sunday School dressed in an even more childish manner than any of the other much younger pupils. The teacher ensured I was treated like the other pupils with the added humiliation of having to explain why I was there.
As well as answering the other pupils questions on my misbheaviour.
Towards the end of the Sunday School class I misbehaved and broke the rules by speaking without permission. This has only confirmed to my family my lack of maturity and thoughtless actions. I had to stand at the front of the class and was told off by the teacher in front of the other children. It was unbelievably embarrassing but deserved. I had behaved like a naughty little girl and was being disciplined and made an example of for others to learn from.
To reinforce my learning the teacher had me write the rule I had broken on the blackboard in front of the whole class.
She then had me practice how I should have behaved before speaking in front of the whole class so that it was clear I had learned the correct behaviour. That is that I must raise my hand and wait in silence until the teacher gives me permission to speak.
I was sent to the corner to spend the rest of the class in shame and to reflect on my thoughtless and childish misbehaviour until my sister-in-law came to collect me.
My public shaming was completed by the teacher explaining my misbehaviour to my sister-in-law in front of the whole class. The teacher gave me some lines to be completed before attendance at my next Sunday School lesson. My sister-in-law assured her that I would be punished at home as well for causing unnecessary trouble in the lesson and for bringing shame on our family. My sister-in-law was furious.
She had me walk all the way home with my hands, in mittens, firmly on my head for all to see.
When we got home I was put in detention sat on a hard stool facing the wall to write my 8 sides of A4 of lines.
When I had finished I had to stand in silence with my hands on my head. My sisters-in-law ate their lunch leaving me without mine as part of my punishment.
My sister-in-law gave me another verbal chastisement for my misbehaviour. It ensured I was left in no doubt of my failings and that their would be consequences for my fecklessness. She put me over her knee, lowered my knickers and gave me a thorough hand spanking.
I was sent to my room and told to put on the childish bed clothes I was to wear to ensure my humiliation continued.
This meant I was to be wearing a long pale pink childish frilly nightgown.
Followed by matching long hand knitted wool bed cardigan, bed bonnet and mittens in a pale orange.
My sister-in-law made my position clear to me as she buttoned up my bed cardigan with my own hands encased in childish woollen mittens firmly tied at my wrists.
It was very uncomfortable and warm given the sunny weather yesterday but my sister-in-law reminded me that I found myself dressed in this manner through my own inability to behave as I should.
I was taken downstairs to be lectured by all of my sisters-in-law on my failings and sinfulness.
Before having to stand whilst they decided on my punishments.
Back upstairs my wool be cardigan was fastened completely so that I would spend a long afternnon, evening and night sweating in discomfort.
I was told I would be writing along and detailed letter of aplogy to the Sunday School teacher for my misbehaviour, informing her of how I was being punished and asking if she wished further punishments to be added. I have to attend Sunday School again in two weeks time for an additional lesson where I will apologise to her in front of the whole class. I have to spend one hour every evening for a week sat cross legged in the corner with a finger to my lips and my other hand on my head so I learn to remain silent. I am to have no supper for a week. I am to receive 12 strokes of the cane across my bare behind in front of my family, the Vicar and his wife plus the Sunday School teacher on Wednesday evening after midweek Service.
After this I said my prayers in front of mys sisters-in-law.
I was then sent to bed at 3:45 pm and told to remain there until this morning dressed in my nightgown, bed cardigan, mittens and bed bonnet. It was a humiliating and very uncomfortable night.













