3) BONUS BALL
I’ve yet to see any girl’s skirt or dress, or boy’s long trousers, that give the back of the legs protection against a well-placed smack or three. Why not, as you lead the protesting little horror to their well-deserved trip over whatever, give them 2 or 3 extra there? Not so easy with a slipper, and a good practice swing by hand before the smacked bottom won’t do you any harm, if you were the teacher, it wouldn’t!
I think there’s been more than a few postings on this over the years on here apart from mine. PERHAPS the reason there haven’t been even more is that it was a part of everyday life at home or school for so many of us(even if only the threat of it), so it hasn’t lodged in everyone’s memory.