Mothers

The spanking I’m talking about here happened about 20 years ago – but I still remember it like it was yesterday.&n… more

Back in the 1960s, seeing a parent smack a child was quite commonplace, and even in public it was not unusual to see an angr… more

My mom and dad have always been practising Christians, and every Sunday morning my brother and I would be dragged off to t… more

By the time I was 10 years old, my mother thought me too big for a spanking when I misbehaved, and so when she believed disci… more

I’ll always be in awe of how my mum managed to keep discipline in a home of three small boys, and yet only once (at lea… more

One aspect of parental discipline which is not often talked about is how some mothers and fathers deliberately tried to … more

Sometimes, the prospect of a spanked bottom proved so scary that the child in question would have an accident – somethin… more

It’s currently winter here and for the first time for some years, we have very cold weather and snow. And the weath… more

I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s in northern England, in a predominantly working class city. My father worked on th… more

I grew up in the 1970s in the south of England. My mother had me when she was considerably older than most mums and gave birt… more

I grew up in Malaysia. My sister and I were trained from when we were quite young to be good girls. We were both usually obed… more

As a young boy growing up in Ireland, I was no stranger to a trip over my mum’s knee with my trousers and underpants t… more

FREE AUDIO: When Lucy and her sister squabbled as children, their mother often resorted to settling such arguments wit… more

From a mother’s point of view, discipline matters. I learned early on that to be too lenient with children does not pay of… more

I don’t remember all the events of this particular incident. Mom and I were getting ready to go out for the day to see mom’s … more

I was brought up in the 1960s, when smack bottoms – as they were called then, at least in Britain – were an acceptable and co… more

Spankings were very common in our house during the late 1970s and early 80s, and were always administered my mother. A la… more

I’m now 37 years old and grew up in the neighbourhoods around the New Zealand city of Dunedin. I was spanked by my mum until … more

I love your site. I grew up in South Africa during the 1970s and corporal punishment was a normal part of everyday life acr… more

I got my first public spanking when I was about three or four. I had been spanked at home before with and also received a swa… more

When I was about seven years old, one day Mom, Dad and myself went to a drive-in movie. Before we left, Mom told me to take a b… more