(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) When I reflect upon my childhood, I recall many occasions when discipline was administered with a firm...
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...