1) only rarely 2) until age 3-5
I don't really remember ever being spanked, although a) I remember lots of other things back until I was about 3-4 years old, and b) I do remember the very real possibility that I might be spanked, even until I was a few years older than that. My answers are based as much on my observations of my nine-years-younger brother getting spanked, albeit very rarely, until he was maybe 3-5, as on my own memories. These were more just a swat or two on the seat than a "real" spanking. And he was MUCH more poorly behaved than I ever was. I also remember one time when I was about 12-13, that my mom got perturbed about something or other, came charging at me swinging a ruler with which she, probably as more of an accident, struck me on my belt, once. I recall thinking, at the time, that it was so out of character for her, and that it had been years before since I had previously hed and real threat of a spanking. |