In my childhood lifetime I was living in a family of 6 in a small apartment at Jane & Finch in Toronto. Now I grew up in an Italian home where slapping or grounding your kid for a month is friggin slack compared to receiving punishment from old school Italian parents. But ya I was a damn bad ass kid in those days. I recalling one time coming back from school (Elementary) where I was suspended for 3 days for swearing and not listening to the teacher, but when I got home my Mom routinely punished me by slapping my bottom 3 times before I got a chance to escape under my bed. You think she was done from there? She hurries to the laundry room to get a nice long wooden broom to flood me out from under the bed. Thankfully, it didnt work because the bed was so big and she couldnt move it around so she procceeded to poke me, but that didnt work because I would always try to grab it. So then she let me be and after 10 minutes I got out from under my bed and I wiped my tears and I decided to turn on my Nes and play Super Mario bros. Just as I was having fun trying to beat the game the big cheese has come home. My father! Whilst playing on my nes i could see from the corner of my eye, my dad walking by to his room. I paused the game so I can tune in what's going on.And then I heard that awful clinging of the belt buckle as my dad walked in my room and closed the door behind him. He asked "what did you do in school?" I casually answered "nothing." My dad asked me to see my hands. When I did he gave me the hardest slap to the inside of my hand, and you think getting a belt to the ass is rough? man try taking it to your hands, youd be suprised how much that hurts. But for some reason, I never ran under my bed or tried to escape. I just took it like a bitch!. It was probably because I was so scared and if tried to resist he would keep up his work rate. If my parents couldn't find a broom or a belt then I would get the spatula or the cable cord to the ass. But ya this was life like growing up in an Italian home.