Corporal punishment

[AiA in Atlanta]

^^^ yep, that was dear ol' mum. and she hasn't changed a bit. today she is just called "passive-aggressive" and "manipulative."

[Neferti]

In Secondary School, teachers thought I was wonderful. My homework was always in on time, I never disrupted the Class and I usually came either top of the Class or near enough in EXAMS.

Then I met boys.

I bet you sat at the front of the class too Neferti.

Yes, I sat in the front, usually.

My first boyfriend was when I was 18. He was a Bank Teller. Very Cute. We never had sex!

[AiA in Atlanta]

We never had sex!

You regret that? aussie busy taking notes ...

[mantra]

I bet you sat at the front of the class too Neferti.

Yes, I sat in the front, usually.

My first boyfriend was when I was 18. He was a Bank Teller. Very Cute. We never had sex!

I had a girlfriend who lost her virginity at 21. In the 70's that was considered very unusual. Most of the girls I grew up with at least waited until they were 16, but beyond that it was considered rare. My first long term boyfriend was at 16 - my first date was at 13 at a local dance, but under supervision which I resented and fought against. In retrospect though I'm glad. That boy had hands like an octopus and a mouth like a vacuum cleaner. I was actually relieved to see my mother at 10 pm when she came to pick me up.

^^^ yep, that was dear ol' mum. and she hasn't changed a bit. today she is just called "passive-aggressive" and "manipulative."

Haha. I don't think mothers intend to be that way, but a relationship with a son is so different from one with a daughter. Knowing how sensitive some males are - I think mothers just try to tread softly around them. She's lucky she has your father to use as a mouthpiece to get her messages across. Confronting an adult son directly isn't always an easy task.

[Neferti]

We never had sex!

You regret that? aussie busy taking notes ...

No. Not in the slightest. He was my First Love and I was his. He eventually married somebody else, but before he did that he (through a friend who also worked at the Bank) came to see me ... the "spark" had gone. I still remember him. Fondly.

[Neferti]

I had a girlfriend who lost her virginity at 21. In the 70's that was considered very unusual. Most of the girls I grew up with at least waited until they were 16, but beyond that it was considered rare. My first long term boyfriend was at 16 - my first date was at 13 at a local dance, but under supervision which I resented and fought against. In retrospect though I'm glad. That boy had hands like an octopus and a mouth like a vacuum cleaner. I was actually relieved to see my mother at 10 pm when she came to pick me up.

Oh, when I said my First Boyfriend, I didn't mean that I hadn't had "dates" before that ... perhaps I should have said my First LOVE?

I slapped a few faces when they got too frisky and I loath "kissing".

[mantra]

I slapped a few faces when they got too frisky and I loath "kissing".

I think boys should be given manuals on how to kiss a girl properly - same goes for some adult males. A few get it, but a lot don't. Still slapping a male's face is a bit risky Neferti - these days anyway. They're likely to slap you back a lot harder.

[AiA in Atlanta]

I loath "kissing".

aussie will be disappointed to read that Nef

here in the American South I have heard parents say to their children, "I'm gonna switch you!" or "I'm gonna take a switch to you!" That always makes me smile.

[Super Nova]

I little corporal punishment didn't do us any harm......

Check this out for PC going wrong.... our little princesses and princes need a good kick up the arse every now and then.

School bans whistle as too aggressive
A school has banned the blowing of a whistle to signal the end of playtime because it is “too aggressive” and could leave the children “afraid of the noise”.



Instead staff at St Monica’s Catholic Primary School in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, must raise a hand in the air to mark the end of playground breaks.

The ban was revealed in a letter last week to Country Life magazine by Pamela Cunningham, who works as a teaching assistant at the school. Cunningham, who has been at the school for 26 years, said staff feared that in an emergency children might not see their raised hands so she still kept a hand-carved whistle in her pocket “just in case”.

Professor Alan Smithers, of Buckingham University, said: “We have become extraordinarily over- sensitive. Does this means children are not going to be able to play football and hockey because the referees use whistles? What about fire alarms? Sharp noises are very good signals. This seems crazy to me.”

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/ ... -bwtghwdzz