This is a memory and lesson that lasted. I had stolen some cookies that morning out of a jar...
(gap: 2s) This is a story from my earliest childhood, set in the gentle days of the 1930s. I...
As a child, I was often packed off to my maternal grandparent’s home in the country. Their house was...
(gap: 2s) In the days when I was a little girl, our home was a place of order and...
(gap: 2s) In the gentle glow of a 1950s afternoon, as sunlight filtered through lace curtains and laughter of...
(gap: 2s) When I reflect upon my childhood, I recall many occasions when discipline was administered with a firm...
(gap: 1s) The house I grew up in was a world of gentle order and quiet routines, where the...
Growing up in southern Germany during the 60s, I was part of a middle-class family where men worked long...
(gap: 1s) Growing up in a military family in the 1960s meant that discipline and order were woven into...
My memories of smacked bottoms reach back to the late 1960s, a time when the world seemed painted in...
My mother was the very picture of discipline—her hair always pulled back in a severe bun, her shirtwaist dresses...
In the 1950s, my sister and I grew up in a world that felt both safe and unyielding—a world...
This happened back in the mid-60s. The world then seemed both vast and contained, my universe stretching only as...
As a child growing up in the 70s, discipline was a part of life as familiar as the salty...
Childhood in our small Irish town was a tapestry woven with laughter, innocence, and the gentle rhythms of family...
In the heart of a small Irish town, where the hedgerows grew thick and the air was always tinged...
(short pause) My childhood unfolded in the heart of a small Irish town during the 1960s, a place where...
Corporal punishment was by no means frequent in our family, as my twin sister and I were generally well-behaved...
My earliest memories are painted in the soft, golden light of the early 1970s, in a small UK town...
I grew up in the late 1960s, a time when the world felt both bigger and smaller—when the rules...
Growing up in the heart of the Midwest, my sister and I lived in a modest, sunlit house nestled...
There was one time in my childhood that stands out with a sharp, unforgettable clarity—the only time I ever...
When I was in my formative years, I got many spankings. One day, I had been particularly bad, so...
Looking back, my childhood in that small town feels like a patchwork quilt—stitched together with laughter, scraped knees, and...
My stepmother swept into our lives like a brisk autumn wind—thirty-five years old, with a past as mysterious as...
My childhood unfolded in a small, sleepy town where the days seemed to stretch endlessly, golden and slow, and...
I am a Spanish immigrant, having arrived in the United States when I was in my formative years. In...
My childhood unfolded in a sleepy little town where the days seemed to stretch on forever, golden and slow....
Up until a certain age, my mother would spank me over her knee with a slipper; hard enough to...
(gap: 2s) In the early 1960s, our small northern English town was a world unto itself, nestled between rolling...
(gap: 1s) Although I’m almost 60 now, the memory of a particular winter evening in the 1960s remains as...
(gap: 1s) My best friend Robert and I were inseparable, our days stitched together by the golden thread of...
Growing up in Surrey, England during the 1960s, my childhood unfolded in a world that felt both timeless and...
When I was a little girl, my parents were always very fair and kind, but they believed in teaching...
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...