Mothers

I’ve enjoyed reading many of your accounts of childhood scrapes and punishments from other people, but I think m… more

In this extract from her now discontinued blog The Spanking Mum, Louise discusses the pros and cons of spanking in the pr… more

Editor’s note: This contribution was originally emailed to Maman in 2002.

I know that in this permissive day and … more

Considering it hurt so much at the time, you may think it odd that I remember my mom’s spanking spoon with such affe… more

When I was nine, I got invited to a classmate’s birthday party. Debbie was a very popular girl and her parents were … more

My mother was definitely a believer in smacking naughty children. I was by no means the most unruly child of my cohort in s… more

This story is true and written from personal experience. What I set down now is exactly how everything unfolded in 1973, … more

When my big brother and I were growing up in Wyoming during the 1980s, my mom spanked us pretty often. The tool she used for … more

My birth mother died when I was just six years old, and for the next three years it was just me and Dad. Because we had both be… more

I was brought up in the late 70s/early 80s, and in many ways my family life was something of a contradiction. Dad was basic… more

One day, when I was 11 years old, I was playing at my friend Amanda’s house. when we heard agitated yelling from her … more

When I was around 12 or 13, we went on a family picnic at a local fish hatchery. My brother and his friends were walking on a n… more

When I was about nine years old, I got caught bullying my neighbour’s daughter.

Unfortunately for me, the girl&#… more

I was born in a fairly large Spanish town to a working family, being the middle one of three brothers. I also have a sister. … more

When my brother Andrea and I were boys, it was our mother who handled all the behaviour matters. Our father ran a small oli… more

When I was a naughty boy, I would usually be sent to fetch Mum’s slipper from her shoe cupboard (unless she happene… more

My first recollection of a spanking is one I received when I was four years old, although I know from family conversation… more

When I was a little girl, the discipline I dreaded most was a beating with the cane. My mother used a rattan cane and it neve… more

My mother was a sixth grade teacher from the time she graduated in the 1970s until she retired five or six years ago.  When … more

I grew up in Arkansas during the 1990s, and my mother’s approach to discipline was extremely conservative. She c… more

I was five and in my first year at primary school. I noticed that there was a blue teddy in the toy box in the classroom which … more

When I was a boy, my mother kept a strap that she would use to chastise me once in awhile. She usually gave me between 15 and 2… more