Swimming Sore

Swimming Sore

In the US state where I grew up, there was a law against corporal punishment by class teachers. However, school principals were allowed to spank misbehaving students. Some principals never spanked, others did. There had to be another adult present as a witness. My mother was a school secretary, and I remember her telling me […]

Sharing a Hairbrush

Sharing a Hairbrush

I’m in my 70s now. I grew up in the 1950s and it was a different world back then. The stories on here make me nostalgic for what now seems a simpler and more innocent time. Unlike today, when many countries have made it illegal for parents to physically chastise their offspring at all, back […]