My mother, Agnes, was a schoolmistress in a small village primary school in Scotland in the 1950s, when the...
I spent my childhood in New Jersey, accompanied by my younger sister, Amanda. The year was 1962, and our...
In addition to parental punishments, the young are sometimes spanked by someone closer to their own age, most commonly...
My brother Peter and I, though twins, were as different as chalk and cheese, yet bound by an unbreakable...
Ingrid, our Jamaican housekeeper and nanny, who was entrusted with the care and discipline of the younger children in...
I grew up in a peaceful, picturesque village nestled in the English countryside during the 1960s. Our home was...
My grandmother’s Christian faith was the foundation of her life, guiding her every action with unwavering resolve. She believed,...
In 1941, I was in a day school for boys in Oxford. I had no siblings, and my father...
I was brought up by my grandmother, a lady for whom discipline and order were the very foundation of...
One evening, both my parents had to work late, leaving me in the care of my older sister, Rebeca,...
My mother was a loving and attentive woman, always striving to do what was best for her family. Yet,...
My name is Andrew, and this tale took place many years ago. During one summer, my sister Diane and...
As youngsters we were never shy, for we had grown up together and were used to the ways of...
In the world of home and family, the name Mrs Beeton is synonymous with wisdom and guidance. Yet, few...
During the 1950s, discipline at my primary school was administered with the utmost seriousness. Only the most unruly children...
When I was in my late teens, I traveled to Jamaica with my mother and younger sister to visit...
I was born in the late 1950s, the second of six children. I have four sisters and a brother,...
Once upon a time, in a quiet, sunlit suburb, there lived a little girl named Susan and her younger...
The summer that Grandmother came to reside with us was a season that seemed to stretch on endlessly, thick...
My family lived in middle Tennessee during the 1960s, a time when the Beatles were on the radio, kids...
In the mellow haze of the late 1960s, when the world was awash with new music, shifting fashions, and...
My dearest friend in childhood was a girl named Naomi. Naomi was a year older than I, with a...
To say that I had a tough start in life would be quite the understatement. When I was younger,...
In our younger days, whispers always floated about the family regarding how ‘mischievous’ Aunt Matilda had been, though the...
(gap: 2s) When the golden afternoon sunlight streams through my window, I am reminded of my own childhood, many...
(gap: 2s) My childhood in England, during the gentle years of the 1970s and early 1980s, was filled with...
(gap: 2s) In the heart of a most respectable English village, where the hedgerows were always neatly trimmed and...
When I was a little girl, our next-door neighbours were my mother’s sister, Aunt Linda, and her daughter, Susan....
(gap: 2s) If you would care to listen, I shall recount a tale from my own boyhood, set in...
(gap: 2s) In the gentle embrace of 1960s Britain, my childhood days unfolded in a town where discipline and...
The sitting room was always bathed in the most glorious golden sunlight, which streamed through the lace curtains and...
gap: 2s) Every summer, when the days were long and the air was filled with the sweet scent of...
(gap: 2s) My childhood, set amidst the gentle bustle of a 1950s English suburb, was a tapestry woven with...
I wonder, have you ever found yourself in trouble at a friend’s house, and received a stern word or...
In the gentle sunlight of my childhood home, discipline was administered with a sense of care and purpose. While...
(gap: 2s) My mother, Margaret, was a lady of unwavering principle and gentle heart, yet she held steadfastly to...
The summer holidays, in those days, seemed to stretch on forever, golden and endless, like a river of sunlight...
(gap: 2s) My brother Peter, who is but a year older than I, recently reminded me—rather triumphantly—of the notorious...
(gap: 2s) Before I recount the events of that most memorable summer, allow me to introduce the principal figures...