Mothers

When I was 13, I became friends with another boy in my village who was two years younger. As was not uncommon at the time, we … more

I’m now in my late 60s and the proud mum of two wonderful men with families of their own – and I put at least some of tha… more

I was brought up in the 60s and 70s and at that time, parents generally were a good deal stricter with their kids than they a… more

Growing up in the 70s, my parents always gave a wonderful tanning to my brothers and sister but never me – I was almost alwa… more

My mother was a schoolmistress in a small village primary school in Scotland in the 1950s, when the tawse was considered … more

I lived in New Jersey all my life. I had a younger sister named Alex. At the time this happened, she was 9 and I was 13, in 1962… more