What’s a phrase that your parents used years ago

[Pops1967GTX]

Look what you have done.....

Here”s one ,when children were becoming unruly, in stores “BEAT THAT CHILD!” followed by hearty laughter.

 

[Don Frelier]

Go upstairs to your room and wait til your father gets home.
(Scariest words ever)

 

[YY1]

"Get off the Goddamned shed"

 

[Matthew Miller]

Don't make me pull this belt off

Don't make me pull this car over

 

[ricks_RR]

get put in the corner for an hour or two or just a time out chair . i would take them over behind the wood pile that was scary

 

[Kern Dog]

Dad used to say "Dummy up" when he wanted us to be quiet. That phrase is dumb as ****.

 

[Dipstick]

"assume the position".

 

[VANDAN]

Make hay, while the Sun shines...

 

[Sahara]

“Starving kids in Africa would be grateful for that.”

 

[tnfastback]

If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.


Also Time Out........when I grew up time out was laying in the kitchen floor after my Mom backhanded me out of my chair. Usually for calling one of my Brothers a Dick or something at the dinner table Didn't hurt me in life one bit!!!

 

[72redbird]

Quit your crying or I will really give you something to cry about!

 

[jprather]

" what the hell is wrong with you?? act like you had some jerkin' up "

 

[tnfastback]

Later in life Dad always said if it has Tires or ******* it is going to cost you.

 

[Cranky]

Quit your crying or I will really give you something to cry about!

That's the big one but it was usually "shut up or I'll give you.........."

 

[ksurfer2]

O-U-T (spelled out) then OUT shouted when mom wanted us out of the house

 

[Wojo68]

I’d get the whisper in my ear, “when you get home, you’re gonna get a beating”

 

[diesel_lv]

Didn't that woman what raised you give you no home trainin

 

[Bb70charger500]

Belt In 3-2-1
Depending how bad we were there was different levels of belt the worst was a gator skin belt

 

[slimt]

Back in my day I had to walk ten miles one way to school. I called BS on that one. Paid for it later.
Nowadays I dont think school would be worth walking that distance for.

 

[Bb70charger500]

Grandma would make us pick a branch off the fig tree when we were being bad that was the worst you didn't want a thin one that had a whip effect but you didn't want a huge one ether!
God help you if you picked one that was dry and ready to brake if it snapped you had to get a new one!
I grew up just fine