Spankedjenny:
That's hilarious. I was never spanked with a switch as a child but I sure knew what they were and also the tale of Santa putting a switch in naughty children's stockings and I was always fearful of finding one in mine.
I was the same way, knew what a switch was, never had one used on me, my parents had different implements they favored.
I do remember before starting First Grade my mother warning me if I didn't behave I'd be paddled, I had no idea what she meant. Up to then I'd been spanked and maybe got the belt once. Within a few weeks a boy in class had been paddled and within a few months I experienced it personally.