Children are being born to parents who were grossly abused themselves as children. Many lack any knowledge or skills of child rearing or even of what might constitute safe and reasonable corporal punishment.
I have suggested before and suggest again that more can be learnt from the well behaved, high achieving kids than from the bad. It has been my good fortune to have had met a lot of the latter. They are generally not pampered kids.
My own mum arrived first. She was obviously livid and did something she had never done before – she...
Nowadays, the trend appears to be (and is the same in my family) that parents, particularly younger children, are...
I could scarcely believe I had survived. “Steady now. That’s two.” Swish-CRACK! “Ahh hhaah ahh!” I yelped, writhing in...
I certainly don’t think that many of these incidents would have ended in a court case. I would estimate...
To look first at the situation down here in the run-up to 1987, I was always pretty clued up...
1. The Implement itself Mostly, “The Slipper” in school tended to be a well-worn white plimsoll, anywhere between Size...
Does it matter? It was a long time ago. No bones were broken; no blood (so far as I...
After such a long spanking, Belinda’s hugs and reconciliation at the end were all the more satisfying. The intense...