lol, my mom used to make my older sisters fetch something to beat me with."Belt trained"?
If you didn't have to go cut your own switch from the willow tree and have some welts afterwards, worse if your original switch wasn't thick enough and were sent back to find a more suitable switch, you were spoiled.

my sisters were sympathetic (well, one of them was), but if what they brought to my mom broke before seeming to elicit the proper response, they could also be in trouble.
whatever happened, the real beating didn't happen until dad got home.