Mothers

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

In the winter of 1975, I was a little girl of seven years old and my grandfather on my mom’s side had just passed away… more

My parents were the greatest. They treated my sisters and I with love and tenderness. We had a wonderful life and all have … more

Unfortunately for me, my parents were not opposed to baring naughty bottoms, should the behaviour warrant it. They bel… more

This happened when I was about 10 or11 years old. I had asked my mom if I could go out to play with my friend Thomas. She said &… more

Growing up in the 1960s, I was frequently over my mom’s lap getting the hairbrush on my bare bottom. When I was 12, I … more

I was smacked quite regularly when a child. I can’t remember how old I was when I started getting spanked, but I don’t thin… more

As a child of the 60s, it will come as no surprise to learn that my mother was a firm believer in smacking her children when t… more

Being raised in the 1970s, our mum was a big believer in ‘smacked bottoms’ (no-one I knew ever called them s… more

My mom had to raise me on her own for the first few years of my life. Working two jobs was pretty rough on her and she hardly ha… more

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 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