If you're old school you've been taken by the hand and found out you can walk in the air

there's some truth to the expression "knock some sense into you", before every stern glance could be filed for assault or harrassment

Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

i vaguely remember being lightly rapped on the hand by my grandmother when i was very young and being troublesome, just a little smack on the back of the hand. it startled me out of my tantrum and i played up even less after that.

that being said, my family actually raised me, rather than dragged me up, so i could always be wholesomely entertained with a pile of books, my uncle's lego, the backyard and paper and pencils/crayons/etc. so maybe i'm just weird for someone my age