as long as I was on the right path.
My mother was strict in many ways. The "right path" was clear and the wrong path, painful.
On the writing versus typing thing - I have a weird theory. We are left or right handed and our dominant hand guides our thinking. Our personality shines through when we write. But, when we type we use both hands, meaning different parts of our brains and thoughts are accessed at the physical level, so I think this impacts on what we write in some way - maybe making it harder to think, or less clear or something. I am not sure how large the difference is, but I suspect there is a difference.
I also think that writing with a pen gives a more physical connection than typing, with pressure, flow and feel involved - it is a group of skills that typing doesn't capture.
Same for me. It was like Jekyll and Hyde. She could be the sweetest person, but if you crossed her and disobeyed, the ramifications were sometimes extreme.
I am not sure what my writing would say about my personality then. Maybe a little bBi-polar, schizoed.