Mothers

From a 1970 copy of Forum magazine

I have followed with very great interest the correspondence in your magazine on corpo… more

The most memorable spanking that I remember was after my 16th birthday. I truly thought that I was an adult. The only thin… more

When I was nine or 10, I was something of a brat – but my mom hadn’t spanked me in a couple of years. Then one day, somet… more

My mother was a barber back in the late 60s and early 70s. On weekends, as a small girl, I would go with her to help. She had a n… more

My twin sister Jenny and I were well-behaved kids, but of course we occasionally did something wrong and suffered the co… more

In my house, in the 1970s, a spanking was a pretty common occurrence.  My mother stayed at home to raise her t… more

I grew up in a typical middle-class 1960s household in the midwest, the middle child in a three-daughter family. When we … more

My brother and I actually did not receive many spankings – but I will never forget the one we got in the summer of 1991.

Each … more

When I was in third grade, my family started attending a semi-fundamentalist protestant church. At this point I was eig… more

I guess I was about eight, and very proud of myself – I had smoked two of my brother’s cigarettes and gotten away wit… more

I’ve read a number of stories on your site about people who had corner time after being spanked. My house was diffe… more

In a previous contribution, I wrote about how my mother would wash my mouth out with soap when bad language was a problem. … more

I’m an adult now but as a girl and teen, I was subject to my mother’s strict discipline. Mother was an expert … more

It was a nice, warm summer’s day and my mother and I were at the zoo as a special treat for my birthday. I was turning f… more

I was the 13-year-old only child of well-to-do parents living in a small Canadian city. They were well respected, promi… more

Approaching my second year at university, I was really stuck as to accommodation. A planned house share had fallen thro… more

My name is Jennifer and I’m 42 years old. I have two grown-up daughters (20 and 22 at the time of writing) and two grown-up s… more

I grew up in the 1980s and discipline was very simple. If I misbehaved, I would find myself across my mum’s knee, my skirt u… more

One episode clearly sticks in my mind when I was eight years old. I had gone into a neighbour’s garden and pulled up … more

In a previous contribution to Maman, questions were raised as to whether mothers spank their children on the bare botto… more

I can remember, when I was about 10 or 11, having two or possibly three spankings in one week.

I think the first was at the we… more

When I was growing up, there was one punishment worse than a spanking. It was reserved for the pet peeve of my mother – if sh… more

I am a mother who raised children in the 1970s and firmly believed in the use of a spanking to set young minds straight. I th… more

I have few memories of being five, but this particular day at the beach is recalled in part in vivid detail.

Being a city bo… more

I grew up in the 60s on the south coast of Norway, a part of the country which is sometimes called the Bible Belt.

My mother w… more

When I was about 12, I remember my brother had his friend round for the day. I always hated this because I was always one for … more

Did anyone else ever go on a road trip with their parents, and do something that made their mother or father so annoyed tha… more

I remember being at church one Sunday when I was five or six. My mother was a volunteer in one of the children’s acti… more

I grew up in the usual middle-class suburban family. I had two siblings.

My father very rarely spanked us, and when he did … more

My brother, who was two years older, and I got spanked once in a water-related escapade.

We had come home from school and w… more

When I was five, my mother decided that I was now too old for being put in the corner. She decided that a good swatting with h… more