I'm 56. My brothers and I always say that, if today's laws were applied to our parents and the level of corporal punishment they meted out to us...they'd STILL be in jail!
Three swats with a leather belt tip?
That was every day.
When we were really bad, we got the "buckle end."
The worse I ever got it was with a 2X4. My MOTHER caught me after I had ridden my bicycle to Mexico and got drunk. I was eleven years old. I made the error of putting my hands over my butt and took some real hard licks to my hands. A belt was not enough and the 2X4 was a memory maker. I had the fear of God in me from then on.