I am not a big believer in corporal punishment at all, but I did smack him. He's ten.
He has a very good friend, who he stays with, (parents also friends of ours, and we like them very much), who are a bit more liberal than us about their kids' viewing habits, and I know they are letting them watch "The Inbetweeners" - I don't really mind that tbh - they are great people and have great kids. But I think this programme is a bit much for 10/11 year olds myself.
Anyway - I had a bit of an argument with my son today, as he wanted to go to the shop in the village - usually fine - but it was dark, he didn't want to go by himself in the dark, and I couldn't be arsed to take him myself to go and buy sweets. And my son called me a "fcking cu*t".
And I really got cross and in the end I smacked his leg.
I feel really bad about this now, although my son was fine (obviously I didn't actually do him an injury), but I shouldn't have hit him.