Fitting Day

A Special Day Created by Toyloli for her fics on Bottoms Valley, Arbitrarily a day during the summer holidays chosen by the parent when children are taken to be fitted for their school uniforms, and also sized to make sure that the correct paddles, switches and canes are being used in the case of pennies.

Non Pennies
All children have a fitting day.The basics of the fitting day is to determine the following: For the majority of children, this is where it stops. Performed just before any child starts school and every year or two after until their growth slows down the making of 'Fitting' children into an occupation is considered a benifit to schools and parents.
 * 1) The tred and shoe size so your child will wear comfortable shoes
 * 2) The child's Measurements to determine the child's clothing size and fit the child for any special clothes they may need during the coming year
 * 3) Weighing and measuring the child's height to determine their size and body type and or whether they are progressing normally for a child their age.

The SPD
For things go a step further. After taking the initial measurements to determine the child's size and body type they are placed on a cornerstool with adjustable enhancers. The fitter adjusts the stool until it becomes painful and leaves the child there for ten minutes, ideally this should be performed on an unspanked (or relatively unspanked) bottom and is done to obtain a base measurement of how much discomfort the child can stand.

They are usually left there for about fifteen minutes while the Fitters process the measurements from earlier.

Having done this the child is then taken and spanked using one each of the recomended paddles, switch and cane for a child of that age and size to make sure they aren't too extreme for daily use. Typically ten strokes with each paddle and 5 with each switch or cane.

Post spankings they are put back on the adjustable stool to determine the sensitivity on a spanked bottom. The actual setting of their stool when they get it will be between this and the base settings.

Overall, Fitting is a long and drawn out process and not actually that extreme, especially considering most pennies only go through fittings once every year or two. It is not counted as an official SPD and whether or not parents use it is often up to them, however the duel nature of the day means it has the attributes of an SPD and many penny parents treet it as such, not using nanocream as per SPD standards.