Parental Discipline
From Blushes 14 ‘Pam — go up to your room at once!’ The blonde-haired girl, with pert and quite pretty features, looked sulky. Her gaze turned from her father to the sober-suited man alongside him. One had the impression that she might, at any moment, put out her tongue at either or both of them. But she did not. Instead she walked slowly across to an armchair and picked up a women’s magazine which lay there. The pertness on her face had taken on a cheeky look — something which it could all too readily do. ‘I said at once , Pam!’ ‘Got to have something to read if I’m to stay up there.’ She continued to flip the pages of the magazine and a look of exasperation passed over her father’s face and he glanced at the man alongside him. ‘I am afraid, Mr Jackson, this tendency in your daughter has been reported to me before now.’ ‘Has it? I’m not surprised. Pam, for the last time , go up to your room!’ Unhurriedly, t...