[Margaret Pilkington]

I am one of those old birds(I believe gits are chaps) who got the back of a hand from time to time.....I did not consider it a beating...and when i look back on what we as a family of seven children got up to...it is to my astonishment that my parents managed to raise us without flaying us alive( something with which we were frequently threatened).
I have to say that in ALL cases...we got what we deserved. We were warned and let the warnings go unheeded. We did all the things we were told not to.

None of us grew up to be damaged, all of us have made upstanding citizens(though one of our lads sailed mighty close to the wind at times).
Rather than calling it corporal punishment I prefer the term 'tough love'.