Mothers

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 was in charge of … Read 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 attention-seeking. That day I … Read more

Did anyone else ever go on a road trip with their parents, and do something that made their mother or father so annoyed that they pulled the car off the … Read 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 activity rooms that day. While she was … Read 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 you barely felt it. My mother, on … Read 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 were going out to a church dinner … Read 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 her wooden spoon – … Read 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. Mother inherited an antique mirror … Read more

My parents were the greatest. They treated my sisters and I with love and tenderness. We had a wonderful life and all have gone on to be success stories in … Read more

Unfortunately for me, my parents were not opposed to baring naughty bottoms, should the behaviour warrant it. They believed in smacking them until they were so sore that the culprit … Read 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 ‘yes’ – … Read 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 got in the habit of fooling … Read 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 think the spankings lasted much beyond my second … Read 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 they misbehaved. This account … Read more

Being raised in the 1970s, our mum was a big believer in ‘smacked bottoms’ (no-one I knew ever called them spankings) for naughty children. Or at least she was where … Read 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 had time … Read 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 were both still getting … Read 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 are today – the cane … Read more

Growing up in the 70s, my parents always gave a wonderful tanning to my brothers and sister but never me – I was almost always a perfect angel. This one … Read more

My mother was a schoolmistress in a small village primary school in Scotland in the 1950s, when the tawse was considered a piece of equipment essential in the maintenance of … Read 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. My … Read more