Principal Brown’s further plans
Now I had wondered about what I had agreed to. As the second half of that school year went on I knew I was right. I liked the idea of strong and assertive girls. My girls certainly became more assertive. I was also pleased to discover that there seemed to be rather less delinquency amongst teenage boys.
Petticoating was a known punishment in our community. It had been quite effective as a punishment and very effective as a deterrent. However the possibility of a transfer to my school was enough to make any difficult boy do what his mother, his older sister, and quite often his younger sister told him to do.
There was some media attention. Some people said what we were doing was wrong. However the crimes of Josie, Hattie and Fanny were also publicized. So too were the reductions in delinquency.
I got enquiries from all over the state and from out of state. Mostly they were from parents of girls who needed more confidence. Thought there were a fair number from parents and guardians, especially women on their own, with difficult sons.
I had come to the conclusion that my solution to the one purely practical problem had been the most effective at taking difficult boys down a peg or ten. It is hard to be boisterous and macho when you have to ask a 13-year-old girl to change your soggy diapers.
I wondered, however, about whether having a large number of diaper dependent ones at my school. Ms McReady gave me a kind of answer
“The thing is that with these lads we need to start again from the very beginning.”
Now in out town a lot of homes had underground ‘bomb shelters’. My girls got busy in shop and in the needlework room.
I got to monitor the plans for dealing with a large number of new students. I liked the idea of real girls getting an education encouraging female empowerment from an early stage. So we would be starting a kindergarten class.
On the last day of the summer I was invited to Josie’s homecoming. Because Joe had been such a big boy we had to be prepared for some difficulties. Not by accident changing of the three special students had been put off so that by the time they were on their way home all had soggy and sagging diapers.
As I understand it mostly these boys got to wear little girl panties or perhaps training panties from when they got home to when they were put to bed. Josie’s sister Mary Ann had been very busy. She had made a changing table, a crib and a high chair. She also made several more sets of very restrictive ‘jamies with sewn in restrictive mittens.
Joe was not that happy about going down stairs but did what his Mom said. Ms McReady and I followed, as did Mary Ann.
There was a small struggle when the boy saw the room that had been prepared for him. He tried to run away. Ms McReady is both strong and skilled in various unarmed combat techniques. Joe ended up on the floor three times. Then Ms McReady lifted him onto the strong changing table his sister had so kindly made for him.
The child was strapped down, minus his dress. His mother lifted his legs and Mary Ann pulled off his plastic panties and unpinned his very wet diapers.
Ms McCready announced:
“I’ve always wondered what it would be like to spank a difficult child in the ‘diaper position’ so now I can find out.”
Mary Ann had folded the diapers ready to pin in place and they were under his hieney. However they gave no protection from the paddle as Mary Ann started the spanking. All of us laughed as he cried- well like a baby.
It was only half past three by the time the child was strapped into his crib. I had given him a bottle-feeding, as had Mary Ann, his Mom and Ms McReady. I thought that he was already wet when he had been given the second, of four distinctly oversized bottles.
Then he was left alone. The light was left on at a low level. Josie could see the babyish wallpaper with teddy bears in dresses and diapers on the wall. There was a mobile above his head. There was a steady, not too loud but definitely audible lullaby on a repeat loop.
I had consulted the parents of the difficult and boisterous immature future students. We wanted them to be wholly disorientated and submissive after the ‘re-birth’ process.
Now Josie was a special case, he being so big. We needed to have a team of three athletic girls available for each feed and change time.
Josie was left in his soggy diapers for 8 hours. At about 11.30 he was changed and fed again. He did not resist too much being strapped onto the changing table. He did prefer dry diapers.
Now a normal new born tends to get feeds every 3-4 hours. Josie, and the others we were ‘re-birthing’ did get 7 feeds every 24 hours. If they happened to be wet or stinky before their feeds they got changed. If they used their diapers during a feed they had to wait until the next one.
However the feeds had varying gaps. Sometimes they would get a new feed after an hour. Other times they might wait for a feed – and stay in wet diapers – for say 8 hours.
Because the nurseries were underground the ‘babies’ did not know what the time was. For the first three nights we added stimulants during the night feeds. We also added sleeping tablets during the day.
After a couple of weeks Josie, Fanny, Hattie, and 14 other difficult young men were wholly disorientated. They did not resist being treated as toddlers.
We arranged a rather special form of childcare for the rest of the summer. A team of High School girls, often by their Mom, supervised each troublesome boy as well. At the same time other girls also got looked after. Each boy had to notice that when they were changed their treatment was exactly the same as a 1-year-old boy or girl.
We had selected the slightly older girls who were most proud of their toilet training.