Because I was an only child, I think my mother in particular was keen to make sure that I wasn’t spoilt, and although I got a lot of love off my mum and dad, I got a lot of discipline too. And because this was in the 60s, not surprisingly a lot of that discipline involved a sore bottom!
My father, it must be said, never laid a hand on me. He probably felt that disciplining daughters was the mother’s job. And, as I say, it was a job Mum took pretty seriously.