My parents administered corporal punishment to me rarely when I was a child – but there was a time, when I was around six years old, when I presented certain discipline problems.
Not without reflection, my parents believed that spankings were a good choice of punishment in certain situations. On the rare occasions when it came to that, it was my father who would give me an old-fashioned over-the-knee spanking, always with much solemn ritual and after a stern talking-to.