I grew up in France during the 1970s and was raised by my single mother. I was energetic when younger, and my mother loved and spoiled me whenever she could. However, I also had to live by her strict rules, and disobeying them often resulted in firm discipline!
My experience of corporal punishment was pretty typical of the time. When I was a little older, after a serious misdemeanor, I received my first formal, over-the-knee, spanking. From this point on, I was disciplined in this manner as and when my mother saw fit. Several months after this particular incident, my spankings escalated to a new level.