[Livia]

My Mum was the one who did the smacking. Always on the thigh and really, never hard. Dad just used to look disappointed in us, which in some ways was worse. My Grandmother smacked me once when I was about 7, I walked into the road and almost got wiped out by a car. I realise now she smacked me because in that moment she was relieved/terrified and a whole mixture of other emotions.