Thinking about Mom and Dad Froglaw.
Mom would use her shoe on me because spanking me hurt her hand and I'd laugh at her. Dad never spanked us, but there was always an implied threat.
Pain would reign me in eventually. I always knew I was wrong when I pushed my parents that far, but I grew up the only boy with two sisters. The temptation to irritate the living heck out of them was just too much for a boy.
Knowing well, as I do, the interactions between brothers and sisters, there's a 100% chance that this is revisionist history. They probably had you in tears on multiple occasions. And if you substitute "amuse" for "irritate", that's prolly a true statement.