Mothers

Your correspondent Mike reminded me of my mother’s use of language when it came to matters of discipline. I was al… more

Looking back at my childhood, I sometimes wonder how I was ever able to sit down. I guess it’s because my mother had … more

My sad tale began when I decided to take my two-stroke motorcycle for a spin around the block.

I had been told before not to … more

Back in the mid 1950s, I was a schoolboy living with my parents and a sister and brother in suburban Philadelphia. At the t… more

I was the youngest of five children who grew up in a loving but strict Catholic household in Ireland. Like most Catholics… more

This is from my childhood in Scandinavia in the late 60s/early 70s, and is my recollection of my first bare bottom spanki… more

You may recall the spanking I told you about back in my previous story. I was caught playing on the railway line and Mum gav… more

I am the son of a mother who believed whole heartedly in smacking naughty children’s bottoms. Although painful, … more

Until recently, I had pretty much concluded that traditional parenting methods had gone the way of the dinosaur, as tod… more

I think I must have been a fairly difficult child, because I can remember clearly the day when I said something that irrit… more

I grew up in the 70s, in a surprisingly conservative and ‘Cleaver-like’ home for the times. There were fiv… more

One morning when I was eight, mom decided to take me and my younger sister shopping for a new dress. I was extremely excite… more

My parents were always respectful of me and my sisters, and expected the same in return. We had a good life and our parents … more

Both of my parents, especially my Mum, were lovely and broadminded – but they also believed that a stern punishment shou… more

I was no stranger to spankings as a kid. Whenever I misbehaved in any manner, I could expect a spanking from my mom. She wou… more

I grew up in the early 50s when spankings were to be expected in the process of raising children. I lived with my mother and … more

As I was growing up, I received many spankings. The one I remember the most happened was when I was six years old.

I had a fri… more

When I was little, my parents were very, very big on spankings. My dad would usually take me to his room and give me a good wh… more

Many years ago, when I was nine years old, I stole a yo-yo from a variety store – then lied to my mother about it. She gave me t… more

When I was growing up in the 50s, spankings were common and my siblings and I knew that if we disobeyed, we were spanked. I r… more

I was often spanked as a young boy, but one of the worst punishments I can remember was the day I had some friends over to pla… more

My mother was one who believed in physical punishments. In our house, this gradually became the standard remedy for any … more

In the late 1940s it was common practice to punish children with spanking – yet by the age of nine I never had gotten one. My … more

When I was growing up in the late 70s and early 80s, spanking had somewhat gone out of vogue. Many parents, including mine… more

Our mum had a hard hand, and was a firm believer in using it on her children’s bare bottoms when she felt they had des… more

Back in the 1960s, spanking was much more common. My most memorable was when my younger brother and I had misbehaved.

Mum … more

I am now 36, and grew up in the south of England in the 60s. This is the only incident of corporal punishment I can now recall… more

As children, when we were naughty mother would take us across her lap for a spanking using her bare hand. The ritual was al… more

I can remember very vividly one of the last spankings I got from my mom.  I was about 13 years old and hadn’t been spa… more

I was spanked a great deal as a child but unfortunately have forgotten nearly all of them in any specific detail. However… more