No, she's never smacked me in front of the kids. Actually, the occasional smack is often deserved :-), and it beats the heck out the grabbing my earlobes and pulling that she did when we were first married (I put a stop to that right quick). Seems her dear old mum had a thing with pulling kids around by the earlobes at times, and MrsGGB somehow thought it to be appropriate to use on her H.