Mothers

I have been reading through many of your stories and find it very interesting to learn about how others were raised and punished by their parents. I was born in the … Read 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 home that day, with an already … Read more

Andrea is an American mother living in a small, rural town. She has two daughters, who at the time of interview were aged eight and five. Can we start by … Read 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 high-earning academic and a determined single … Read more

This is going to be quite a short contribution, as I can’t really single out a particular incident of corporal punishment from my boyhood, but I wanted to tell you … Read 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. This story is about … Read more

I grew up the oldest of four, with a sister two years younger and brothers five and eight years younger. Though my parents were 1960s liberal types, they were anything … Read 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 five years of my life, … Read 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 job and was working … Read more

We were not allowed to play baseball in our yard, for the windows of the house were made of leaded glass, partitioned in diamond shapes. The house had been built … Read more

My parents came of age in the 1960s and both could accurately be described as Kennedy Democrats. My mom was a classroom teacher for several years and my dad was … Read more

When I was nine and my brother six, we were caught stealing sweets from our local store. The shopkeeper knew our mother well and told her that this was not … Read 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 loved and spoiled whenever she could. … Read 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 and brothers five … Read more

The following story and picture originally appeared on a Singapore-based blog. In it, the writer reveals how she bought a cane for her son when he was quite young, and … Read 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 I rode with … Read more

I was all dressed for Sunday School with my younger brother Jeff. My father gave us each a quarter for the collection basket in Sunday School, and off we went. … Read more

With the decline in corporal punishment at home, I don’t know whether kids still have this conversation but back in my day, we often discussed how ‘strict’ our parents were … Read 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 telephone room, at the opposite end … Read more

I grew up in Ohio in the 80s and by the age of 11, my best friend and I had grown curious about being cool like our fathers, both of … Read more

I grew up in a big African-American family (three daughters, two sons) in Alabama, US, in the early 1980s, and spankings were an almost daily part of family life. When … Read more

When I was nine years old, my mother took me and my younger brother and sister to a department store where my grandmother worked. We needed school clothes and my … Read more

I remember the time me and my brother (who was two years older) got spanked over a water-related escapade. We had come home from school and were going out to … Read more