My Dad was in inexperienced corporal punisher. He used to slap the belt on our beds if my sister and I kept talking after lights out. Luckily my sister was nearest the door and got the brunt of it. When I started whispering to her (she liked me to tell her stories to get her to sleep) I'd piled pillows over my legs under the covers.
However, due to his lack of practice at corporal punishment he once bloodied my nose and once broke my eardrum and once broke the contact lens in my brother's eye.
Wow. :()