Mothers

I fell for my partner a long time ago, and we are still two women deeply in love. To me, she is to me the most beautiful woman … more

This story goes back about 20 years, when I was still a schoolboy in my early teens. I was an only child and attended a schoo… more

I was about 10 years old, and it was just Mom and myself at home. We had eaten dinner and were watching TV – I had just taken a b… more

In a tale from the time when Catholic priests were regarded as just one below God himself, our correspondent Nigel recal… more

It started with myself and a few of my friends in our car in a superstore car park. We were about to drive off when we heard th… more

The following took place when I was eight years old. My favourite summertime activity as a kid was riding my bike. I spent … more

I was around seven or eight when Mum actually carried out one of her most heart-stopping threats. It only happened once, … more

I come from a large middle class Indian family, comprising my retired father, my homemaker mother, myself, my wife and s… more

I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and before Mum and Dad split up she was the disciplinarian of the house. She believed wholehea… more

I married Jason in the mid 80s, and at the time his son Steven had just turned five years old. Jason’s ex had a big dru… more

I grew up in India during the 1970s, when corporal punishment, both at school and at home, was extremely common. My dad wa… more

Sometimes, when my friends and I would talk about a recent spanking, someone would say they got spanked for no good reaso… more

I thought I would write and tell you about a spanking I kind of partially witnessed, some years back now, when I went round … 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

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