As a child of the 60s, it will come as no surprise to learn that my mother was a firm believer in smacking her children when they misbehaved. This account gives a few details about my own spankings at home.
I presume that I received, as most children do, more informal slaps on both my bottom and the backs of my legs when I was a little boy but I can’t say I remember much about them. By the time I was old enough to remember individual punishments, maybe three or four, I was already receiving more formal spankings, or ‘smack-bottoms’ as they were usually called in our house.