Mothers

When I was seven, my mother died – and when I was nine, my dad remarried. My stepmom was smart, kind, funny, engaged, lovin… more

Sarah is a European single mother and is mum to Emma, who at the time of this interview was eight years old.

Can we start by t… more

One of my more memorable spankings came in seventh grade. I was struggling with my math class (pre-algebra) – Mom knew th… more

In this rather unusual contribution, our correspondent writes his story from the perspective of his younger selfR… more

I made the possible mistake of announcing my blog somewhere on the web. I should have been ready for the kickback, of cour… more

I’ve noticed recently on this site there have been a few stories where youngsters have been spanked for wetting t… more

In the days when I was brave enough to have a Twitter account, I was very concerned to see a link posted to my feed which clai… more

This is the story of how I earned my last spanking – or, to be precise, spankings. The trouble began when my friend Penny an… more

I was 13 when I got my last spanking. My 10-year-old sister and I were talking after lights out when we were supposed to be a… more

You might reasonably think that using the words ‘kindness’ and ‘spanking’ in the same sent… more

Of all the half-baked arguments promoted by the anti-spanking brigade, the sophistry of false equivalence is by far on… more

Kids each have their own personality. That seems obvious, but sometimes it’ll shock you. You raise them basical… more

Spanking children is a subject which provokes strong emotions. Some oppose it under any circumstance. Others – equall… more

Unless you’re a complete ogre, you’re going to have decidedly mixed feelings about spanking your child. … more

When my first born, Rebecca, was 12, she got in trouble one day. She had misbehaved at school, and she knew her backside wa… more

Every mum knows that tiredness and young children is an unhappy mix. My cousin is a primary school teacher and she attrib… more

When I was about seven or eight, I went on a trip to France with my mother. One of the things we were due to do on the trip was sp… more

If spanking has fallen down the rat hole of social unacceptability, it’s true to say that the entire concept of pu… more

Sandra lives in Dallas, Texas and works as a surgery assistant at a local hospital. At the time of interview, her son was a… more

Elizabeth lives in the rural northern midwest of the United States. She has four children, three girls and a boy. At the t… more

Back in the early 1990s, when the web was in its infancy, one of the main vehicles for user interaction was a set of discuss… more

I remember very clearly the first time I spanked my daughter. By the time she had just turned four years old, one of her fav… more

I want to talk about the biggest falsehood that’s been sold to parents since the beginning of ‘progressiv… more

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

OK, so here comes a difficult one. I know that many parents who are happy to endorse the occasional moderate spanking hav… more

I love your website! I’m 35 years old and have one daughter, who has just turned nine. Even though corporal punis… 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 o… more

As a parent (and, perhaps, particularly as a mother), you become surprisingly and quickly inured to the least glamouro… more

Lauren may already be familiar to some of Maman’s readers thanks to her reminiscences about spankings she recei… 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 … more