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[rivka]

I am so not feeling the Parenting thing right now.




ObSnark: Probably because my kids were planned.

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[tchemgrrl.livejournal.com]

My father stole his father's silly-threat line:

Call: "I'm going to take off my belt and the you know what'll happen!"
Response: "Your pants will fall down!"

It's an interesting cultural shift in the years between those generations--my father understood the corollary growing up ("when other fathers say this it means X, but when I say it, I will only ever mean Y"). But to my sisters and I, we were merely being threatened with a mooning, and we literally didn't understand that there was a violent meaning behind "taking off one's belt" until we were nearly in high school.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

And on the opposite horse, when my older sister was but a wee thing, her favourite threat to our parents was, "When I get big, and you get little..."