I was never spanked with a belt or a switch but the flyswatter was my mom's "friend" and she wasn't above using those paddles that had a ball attached to them once the elastic string broke either! My dad never spanked me. He just sent me to my room to think about what I did wrong and by the time he got in there to spank me I was crying so hard he couldn't do it. My world revolved around my daddy. I was his fishing/hunting/mushroom gathering buddy.