(gap: 2s) In the days of my youth, when the world seemed impossibly vast and the sun shone with...
Tag Archive for: chastisement
Lessons I learned on that Shrove Tuesday
lfjoz, , Domestic Discipline, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0In the gentle hush of a shrove tuesday afternoon, when the golden sun cast long shadows across the red-brick...
Reminders to choose words carefully and to speak with kindness
lfjoz, , Domestic Discipline, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0Once upon a time, in a quiet American neighborhood, there stood a cheerful little house with a white picket...
Strange Sense of a Competition between our Mothers
lfjoz, , Domestic Discipline, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0During the early 1980s, spanking (or smacking, as we generally call it in the UK) was in transition. It...
You could have ruined your future for a pair of sunglasses
lfjoz, , Domestic Discipline, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0The leeds council estate where I grew up was a world of its own—red-brick buildings, narrow streets shrouded in...
A bittersweet reminder of a world that shaped me
lfjoz, , Domestic Discipline, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0(gap: 2s) The world of my childhood was painted in the muted reds and browns of Kent’s council estates,...
Even the sharpest memories soften with time
lfjoz, , Domestic Discipline, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0The late 1960s in Kent had a certain chill in the air, even in summer. Our council estate was...
The brush remained, ever-present on my Stepmothers dresser
lfjoz, , Domestic Discipline, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0The following account is from the last time my stepmother and I had one of those meetings in the...
Even in her sternest moments, Mother’s love was unwavering
lfjoz, , Uncategorized, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0My childhood unfolded in the heart of a red-brick council estate in late 1960s Kent, where the air was...
The threat of the hairbrush was enough to keep us in line most days
lfjoz, , Uncategorized, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0(gap: 2s) My earliest memories are painted in the muted reds and greys of a Kent council estate, late...
Discipline shaped not only her son, but all of us who watched from the sidelines
lfjoz, , Domestic Discipline, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0(gap: 2s) Childhood in the early 1970s in South west London was a tapestry of laughter, scraped knees, and...
Maybe I’d do better next time
lfjoz, , Domestic Discipline, chastisement, corporal punishment, discipline, domestic discipline, punishment, spanking, 0(gap: 1s) One of my more memorable spankings came in seventh grade, a year when the Atlanta air seemed...











