Lessons

The whole notion of school based age play with me role playing a Juniorish school girl is a big part of me and something having oscillated over isn't something I'd deny anymore although outside of a few things around uniform, I haven't done much with it.
Although this is a Victorian classroom, chunks of this are similar to my first school such as the chalkboard, globe abacus and cane which we were most familiar with.
The sort of scene, girl breaches school rule like not doing homework, gets punished and has to sit at the desk in detention doing lines is part of that although the actual business of doing some real study  age-play age studying is the other equal part.
I wouldn't be interested in an age-play school role play that was 75% corporal punishment and the rest just socializing as for one thing it lacks authenticity for me and secondly I do actual want to learn things.

If only...

Minimalism it has to be said was not really something I was brought up with with everything we ever owned, shoe-horned in, a skill that no doubt aided my ability to really pack a suitcase right to the brim with stuff. Indeed it was something of a standing joke between Dad and Guesthouse owners upon arrival  whenever we went on vacations that we had  more stuff for four days away than many had for ten or more overseas.

Although I never had a word for it even in those days of film cameras, I used to attempt to take pictures of myself, trying on various outfits in the room sometimes involving putting the camera on a tripod looking toward a wall or chair or just hnad holding it in front of the wardrobe mirror.

Sometimes I wish back then we'd of had a smartphone so could of taken pictures like this easily or gotten Mom to taken them for me.

That's cos I like to document my life in time.

The Adventurous Four

I don't know about you but adventure stories have always had an appeal and two wonderful books in the series The Adventurous Four set off the Scottish West coast where four children with the oldest Andy aged 14 who's acquired already a good knowledge of the sea, islands and sealife is  helping his Dad,  encounter Nazi's thieves and gunrunners.
The series is very much set in Wartime arguably more so than any other of Enid Blyton's work and sees them taken prisoner by the Nazi's resolving to show them what Scots are made of.

These are my copies in the Deans Rewards series from 1973 where as with a few other series such as the Famous Five, the skirts and shorts worn by the children in the original  covers are replaced with Jeans although we all know children during the War never had Jeans!

Bedrooms

What would a girls bedroom be like?

 This is quite pretty and very feminine but to me it looks more an older teen or a young woman's complete with nail polish and scented candles, the sort I'd sneek into peering rather than one that is so obviously me

This is more like it. A modern juniors bedroom with plushies and a space for your cute pink laptop not that sensible grown ups would have me sleep with it at hand.

Help from the screen

Tv shows like The Little House on the Prairie  were more than just time sinks for some of us growing up as they showed people keeping going in the most difficult of situations, holding the family unit together as they learned their roles.
Those families may of had hard times but cared for each other, were structured and that care showed in how the children were also disciplined.
It was the kind of family living in  a broken one I so wanted to be in and kept me going even in the darkest of times.

Discipline with love

Pix credit: David Adams.

I have lots of problems in my life but a good many go back to how I was raised or rather not raised that have caused me lots of issues some more around how others set their own rules and how they wanted me to relate to them that was at variance with others so I saw myself as at least an absolute equal to you although you were said to be an authority figure or able to get away with challenging you for authority.

It's really time I think to start again

When people talk about disciplining, they tend to think it should be a frequent occurrence to spank but if you do it right it shouldn't be that necessary because if you did it to me, I would associate the discomfort with what I did and avoid it.

It's not necessary to go really into 'hard spanking' being so harsh it hard caused me to lose my spirit but it needs to be sufficient to cause my to cry genuinely from from the pain you applied to my bottom.

If you would have me learn to yield  to your loving authority, there's every chance I'd learn to submit to the other forms authority that will confront me in my life such as teachers, school principal, police, neighbours and employers. 

I need you to uphold your authority and constantly so when I challenge you, you win decisively and I always lose.

This isn't happening right now.

I want you to take that rod of correction and use it sparingly but with love whenever I am challenging you with no good reason so I learn my proper relationship between you and other authority in my life and me.

This would really help me.

All my love, Jo.

Slovenly

One picture, two halves as when I used to get home from school I would just lounge about slovenly on the chair, sticking my feet up not caring about how I looked with bags and that just dumped willy-nilly on the table.
In adult life I'm pretty much the same just sat with whatever I bought just dotted around me with no inclination to put things away properly or smarten myself up. You'd walk in and I'd do nothing.
It's that lack of self respect and self discipline that people find telling about me athough they don't care to do much about it.