Maman Special Report We recently received an intriguing email from an English contributor named Chris. Its contents contained the text of a letter Chris and his cousin Richard found while sorting through the effects of Richard’s mother after she died in 2008. The letter is dated October 2, 1959 and is apparently a reply from […]

In our house, my husband is the disciplinarian. He is both loving and strict – very reasonable but expects rules to be followed. He always follows through with a punishment if he promises it and he never goes easy! As I have mentioned before, we practice domestic discipline in our relationship and he also spanks our […]

I was born in an era when strict child discipline and corporal punishment were the norm, whether in homes or at school. From a child’s point of view, the teachers were considered to be ‘in loco parentis’, with the same powers as their parents. The more ‘touchy-feely’ parent-child relationships we experience today did not exist […]