Mothers

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

I grew up in Britain in the 1970s, and my mum thought nothing about taking down my trousers and pants (or those of my little … more

When I was young, I got my bottom spanked by my mother pretty regularly. She kept a paddle for her children’s bare b… more

During the early 70s in London, I was part of a hard-core group of six children who gathered regularly on the edge of the pa… more

One morning, when I was 10 years old, I had a school test I hadn’t revised for. My lack of application to my school wo… more

It’s funny the ideas you get as a child. We were on holiday in the British seaside resort of Scarborough, and I was f… more

One morning, as he came out of the shower, my son was startled to find me sitting cross-legged on the edge of his bed.

He app… more

We tend to think of the current stormy debate about spanking children as something new, but the truth is, the practice ha… more

I think I’d be about nine when Ginny and her family moved in next door to us. She was two years younger than me, and fo… more

Every May, the peaches start to come in over Georgia in the southern US – in fact, it’s often called the Peach State… more

When I was a girl, corporal punishment for unruly children was an accepted norm of family life. If you misbehaved, you go… more

Of my parents, Mum was definitely the biggest spanker, although I did get a few from my father as well. She only ever smack… more

I don’t believe I was especially naughty as a child – at least, no more than many other 10-year-old boys of my acqua… more