My late father was always away at sea and in our case my brother and sister and myself didn't cross my mother often.She was a powerfull woman and a good belt hurt.
When the old man got home the role reversed but i give hime his due he didn't touch us.I remember once I told him to get back to sea and he chased me he was a big man and I scaperd as fast as I my legs could take me.My brother and I attended the schippers school in Dordrecht for two years a kind of boarding school.Disipline was the norm and a caning happened regulary me being a temperamental so and so :)
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