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 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