My mother believed in firm and strict discipline. At first, she seemed to prefer the ‘instant response’ style of...
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Even growing up in the 90s, spanking was far more common than you might think. Most of the kids...
My friend Anna had an Uncle Jonathan, who lived with her and her father. Anna’s parents were divorced, which...
I was at primary school in the 1950s in the north-east of England, where spankings at home and at...
I grew up in the late 50s and early 60s, when girls always wore skirts and dresses, and lots...
I remember the time me and my brother (who was two years older) got spanked over a water-related escapade....
I grew up in a big African-American family (three daughters, two sons) in Alabama, US, in the early 1980s,...
This is a memory from when I was four. My mother was talking on the telephone with a friend....
When I was 10, I thought all physical discipline would end at our private school, at least for girls....
I had just turned seven and was playing at the park with some friends. Our mothers were sitting on...
This extract from The American Home (now Better Homes and Gardens) of April 1948 was kindly sent to us by...