Did your parents strike you as a child?

Never did but my grandmother once went to extremes in the fear department. I can't remember what my brother did but she was pissed and said I'm getting a switch! Walked out into the front yard, cut a rose bush branch down, thorns included and came back into the house. I never remember her doing anything after that but man I remember thinking she meant business.

When my daughter was a toddler, I had to give her a smack on the leg a couple of times.

Zero physical abuse growing up though. Did you deal with that?

Only once when I called my dad a creep. Just a slap on the arm.

My dad told me when he was in middle school he signed up for football and his dad chased him down the street with a rake. They were immigrants who didn't understand American culture. He really wasn't a bad guy at all and finally started to relax and assimilate better when my aunt was born later on. So ya, my dad never struck me, even though I probably deserved it a few times.

My mom beats me with a grass green dildo with a curve, in a recently used magnum condom flipped on the inside out with semen stains on it... while I'm strapped to a mannequin knee in a lavender neon lit garage and leaves me out there during the weekend with a bowl of milk oatmeal for me to lap up

They struck me as being very nice people.
I can count the times I got swatted on one hand with a finger or two left over.
Once or twice Mom felt she was pushed too far and pulled out the ol' wooden spoon. Mostly I was sorry I had made her so mad, the paddling didn't hurt that much but she sure was worked up over it. She was a sweetheart.
Dad wasn't bad either, but if you pushed him hard enough, he'd sorta lose it. Gave me a really hard shove once, he was so mad. Then there was the time I was trying to keep the dining room table between us because he had blood in his eye.
Mom broke that up by smashing a silver tea service onto the table. Left a nice little divot, and the three legged pitcher now only had two.

I got spanked a couple times. I remember after once or twice I realized their heart wasn't in it. The last time I realized it wasn't very hard and I laughed at my mom. She stopped right there and seemed super embarrassed and that was it. No more.

Corporal punishment went out of fashion in the mid to late 70s. I was lucky.

Yep, my father. Frankly, he was a jacka$$. Never changed from that from when my brother and I were kids until he died, and was only slightly less awful to my mom.

My mom was almost always sweet and loving.