I am from Germany, and grew up being cared for by my grandmother. She was always very loving to...
I was raised by my grandmother and she was very strict. Once a year I was allowed to go...
I have written before about Ingrid, the Jamaican housekeeper and nanny who was in full charge of the younger...
One evening, both my parents had to work late, and so I was left in the care of my...
I grew up in a fairly rural area of the UK in the 1960s, and a lot of the...
In 1941, I was in a day school for boys in Oxford. I had no siblings, and my father...
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In addition to parental punishments, the young are sometimes spanked by someone closer to their own age, most commonly...