Mothers

Some time ago, a young UK mother-of two named Louise published a series of comment pieces about family discipline in a bl… more

Mary is a mother of three children. At the time of this interview, her son was 12 and her two daughters 14 and 15 respective… more

Betty is a mother of three from Arizona. At the time of interview, her two daughters were aged nine and ten, and she also ha… more

I grew up in Texas during the 1960s, and my parents were traditional Southern Baptists.  Life for me and my brothers and s… more

Imogen is a 60-year-old English grandmother. She has just the one son, Michael, who was no stranger to a sore bottom duri… more

The most embarrassing punishment I ever received happened when I was 11 years old. At the time. my mother, nine-year-ol… more

I have been reading through many of your stories and find it very interesting to learn about how others were raise… more

I’ve already told you how I got paddled for passing notes in class – this is the story about what happened when I got … more

Andrea is an American mother living in a small, rural town. She has two daughters, who at the time of interview were aged e… more

After I moved to the United Kingdom, I got to know Georgia, a tall and slim black woman with three children. Georgia was an … more

This is going to be quite a short contribution, as I can’t really single out a particular incident of corporal pun… more

Spankings at my house were not rare and all of us – my younger sis and two younger brothers – were all spanked into our teens… more

I grew up the oldest of four, with a sister two years younger and brothers five and eight years younger. Though my parents … more

My brother Jeff and I are only 13 months apart and we were raised almost like twins. We had only each other for the first fiv… more

Shortly before I turned 14, I convinced my mother that I was too old to go to camp anymore. My mom had taken on a part-time jo… more

We were not allowed to play baseball in our yard, for the windows of the house were made of leaded glass, partitioned in di… more

My parents came of age in the 1960s and both could accurately be described as Kennedy Democrats. My mom was a classroom te… more

When I was nine and my brother six, we were caught stealing sweets from our local store. The shopkeeper knew our mother we… more

I grew up during the in France during the 1970s, and was raised by my single mother. I was an energetic child, whom she love… more

I am a 40-year-old woman who lives in Buffalo, NY, where I grew up. I am the oldest of four. I have a sister two years younger … more

The following story and picture originally appeared on a Singapore-based blog. In it, the writer reveals how she bough… more

When I was nine, I fell in love with horses, as a great many girls do. I started to draw their heads all over my notebooks and … more

I was all dressed for Sunday School with my younger brother Jeff. My father gave us each a quarter for the collection bask… more

With the decline in corporal punishment at home, I don’t know whether kids still have this conversation but back … more

This is a memory from when I was four. My mother was talking on the telephone with a friend. She was in the upstairs telepho… more