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I want to talk about the biggest falsehood that’s been sold to parents since the beginning of ‘progressive’ thinking about raising children. Namely, that it’s OK to spank in anger … Read more

It was in 1949 that Dr Benjamin Spock published the first edition of Baby and Child Care – the book widely accepted as a watershed in the way we bring … Read more

OK, so here comes a difficult one. I know that many parents who are happy to endorse the occasional moderate spanking have trouble with the idea of taking down their … Read more

I love your website! I’m 35 years old and have one daughter, who has just turned nine. Even though corporal punishment is not that common in our part of the world, … Read more

This is one of the many memories I have of growing up in a normal Catholic family in Ireland in the early 1990s. Neither my own bum, nor that of … Read more

As a parent (and, perhaps, particularly as a mother), you become surprisingly and quickly inured to the least glamourous aspects of bringing up children – dribble, snot, wee and poo. … Read more

Lauren may already be familiar to some of Maman’s readers thanks to her reminiscences about spankings she received both at home and at school. Now, she shares some observations from … Read more

One of my most vivid memories of being spanked happened a few weeks after I turned seven. It was a warm, late summer day and my mother and I were … Read more

Some time ago, a young UK mother-of two named Louise published a series of comment pieces about family discipline in a blog entitled The Spanking Mum. For various reasons, Louise … Read more

Mary is a mother of three children. At the time of this interview, her son was 12 and her two daughters 14 and 15 respectively. Can we start with you … Read more

Betty is a mother of three from Arizona. At the time of interview, her two daughters were aged nine and ten, and she also had a 10-year-old stepdaughter. Are your … Read more

I grew up in Texas during the 1960s, and my parents were traditional Southern Baptists.  Life for me and my brothers and sisters revolved around church, chores and family.  Our … Read more

Imogen is a 60-year-old English grandmother. She has just the one son, Michael, who was no stranger to a sore bottom during his formative years. Tell us about your own … Read more

The most embarrassing punishment I ever received happened when I was 11 years old. At the time. my mother, nine-year-old brother and I were taking swimming lessons at our local … Read more

I have been reading through many of your stories and find it very interesting to learn about how others were raised and punished by their parents. I was born in the … Read more

I’ve already told you how I got paddled for passing notes in class – this is the story about what happened when I got home that day, with an already … Read more

Andrea is an American mother living in a small, rural town. She has two daughters, who at the time of interview were aged eight and five. Can we start by … Read more