Mothers

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

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