21 Legendary Punishments

I acknowledge it. I'thou a wimp when it comes to doling out punishments. I don't want to have abroad the large moments, like the sleepovers or the the altogether parties, and I don't want to threaten anything that might ruin my day too.

I tend to stick to small livable punishments like "no dessert" or taking away Mazzy's American Girl Doll for a dark, which they seem to be pretty devastated past… But then sometimes I call back, peradventure if I actually hauled them out of a restaurant in the middle of the meal one time, they'd be a lot better behaved in restaurants at present?

Last week, I asked people on the Mommy Shorts facebook page to tell me the harshest parenting ultimatum they always followed through on. Or… the biggest threat they remember their parents following through on when they were kids. I wanted to hear the stuff family legends are fabricated of.

You guys didn't disappoint.

21 Legendary Punishments that Kids Couldn't Forget If They Tried

1) The Not-So-Great Take a chance

"My dad actually turned the car effectually on the way to Bang-up Hazard when nosotros were kids. This, later we drove from LI to NJ and could almost see the roller coasters. Lesson learned!" –Diane

2) No More Bouncy Ball For You

"The kids were fighting over a bouncy ball in the car on the way dwelling from school. I warned them that if they didn't figure out a style to share it, then neither of them would get information technology. When my four yr-former exclaimed once again that the ball was HIS and he would Non be sharing it, I pulled the car over, walked dorsum to his door, peeled the ball out of his hand and threw it as hard as I could into a nearby one thousand. I got back into the car without a word and kept driving. Felt amazing." –Saushan

3) The Opposite of Screen Time

"I was taking the kids to the park and they started fighting. Later I told them to "knock it off" iii times, I said if they didn't knock it off, I would turn the machine around, get dwelling and and so sit and stare at a bare TV for ii hours. My oldest punched his sister. I turned the automobile around, nosotros went home, and nosotros stared at that blank Television set screen for 2 hours. Only like I said we would."  –Scarlett

4) Someone else volition appreciate these toys

"I took all (and I mean ALL) my daughters' toys and donated them to Goodwill. I had always just bagged them up, merely they knew the bags would but go in my room and they would eventually get everything back. Nope. Non this fourth dimension. They learned to keep toys off the flooring after that." – Angela

v) The abased double-decker terminate

"I used to tell my kids that the people waiting for the bus on the side of the road were left there past their parents considering they couldn't behave in the car. They never tested me after that!" – Elizabeth

6) The Long Walk Home

"I put my sons (ages 4 and 6) out of the auto and made them walk behind the minivan (on the sidewalk) until we got habitation (nigh a quarter of a mile) considering they would non stop acting like wild animals in the auto (arguing, screaming, etc). Information technology never happened again. I could just pull over and they'd stop immediately." – Patti

seven) The Empty Room

"My kids refused to clean the play room, so I took everything out while they were sleeping. When they woke up, they had an empty room with empty shelves. But it totally backfired. They thanked me for cleaning and and so played in the empty room with their blankies. It was most 6 months before they even asked nearly the stuff I had taken away!" – Allison

8) The Butt Naked Runaway

"I in one case told my mom, in the midst of a giant fight, that I was going to run away. She told me that was fine, but if I wanted to go out I had to leave her world exactly the same manner I came in….barrel naked. When she demanded I take off my clothes and go outside….I sluggishly made my way right back to my room…fully clothed." – Sarah

ix) The Canceled Birthday Party

"We canceled my son's altogether one year when he was caught stealing from school. He got some clothes we had already bought but that's information technology. No party and no toys." – Lisa

ten) Worse than the Canceled Birthday Political party

"Instead of canceling my party, my mom moved it outside our house and I was not invited. I got to sit inside by the drinking glass door, watching my friends play and eat my cake. All the presents went back to my friends too." – Valerie

xi) Family Cottage Denial

"My kids had been invited to spend the night at the family cottage with i of my aunts and some cousins. I had packed everything up in the car to accept them and we were on our way out the door when they started behaving badly. I warned them repeatedly to stop back talking but they did not. The last warning had included the threat of "if yous don't stop, you lot are not going" and I had to follow through. It was meltdown city but at 7 and 5 years old they were definitely able to grasp the concept of consequences. Needless to say, they were much better behaved after that and were able to go the next solar day with much corrected attitudes." – Carinn

12) Scrapping the Sleepover

"Only last dark, I cancelled my 8 year-former'southward birthday sleepover. I felt bad, particularly because I knew her friends would be disappointed and I knew I was possibly irresolute their parents plans for the evening. Simply I had given my daughter several warnings that if she didn't stop being sassy and rude, I would abolish it. I finally stopped giving the warnings and but sent out the bulletin to the other parents." – Anne

13) Disney World Deprival

"My daughter was kicking the back of my chair really difficult on the fashion to Disney World. I told her 100X to stop. Even took her shoes. I told her if she kicked my chair one more fourth dimension, we were turning the car effectually. My husband looked at me like, "Why did y'all say that???" because he thought I would never follow through. She gave me one last 1000 kick and we turned the machine around. We had fifty-fifty made it to the parking lot and were meeting friends there. I texted them that nosotros weren't going in. I get mad simply thinking nearly it." – Caroline

xiv) Dishes for a Twelvemonth

"I got in some trouble in Loftier School and my mom, who didn't believe in grounding, made me do dishes every nighttime for a twelvemonth. I could still do anything I wanted, every bit long equally I was domicile every night to practise the dishes." – Justine

15) Wearing Pajamas  to School

"I was tired of having to yell at my daughter to get ready for schoolhouse. One day, after several warnings, I made her become downstairs (a fleck early, but she didn't realize information technology), put on her shoes and jacket while she was still in her pajamas. She was and then upset, begging to be allowed to go back upstairs to get dressed. I gave her a "terminal chance" (since it was yet technically earlier than she had to exit) and she ran upwardly and got dressed in record time. I haven't had to yell at her over information technology since." – Melissa

16) No blue eye shadow for you!

"When I was in high schoolhouse, my mom took away all my makeup for one calendar month. Every final mascara, tacky middle shadow, lip gloss, EVERYTHING. For a 15 twelvemonth one-time girl, it was pretty devastating." – Amy

17) UNICORN DREAMS DASHED

"During a hitting stage at age iii, I made a rule that if my girl hit anyone, we would leave immediately. Nosotros went to a birthday party where she and some other kid had a disagreement, and my daughter hitting her. So, nosotros left. As we were leaving, the ponies dressed as Unicorns showed up. Yes, we still left, just those horsicorns upped the consequence to a crazy and unexpected level. (And yes, the altogether party was at a mansion and over the tiptop. I mean UNICORNS!). I just kept telling myself to stay stiff. She no longer hits." – Carrie

18) No Christmas

My mom told me one yr, if I didn't clean my room I couldn't take a Christmas. And I didn't. I couldn't go to Christmas Eve Service at church and I was allowed to open my presents on Christmas morning only I couldn't accept them out of the box or play with them. When the present opening was over, I had to get up to my room until it was clean. I but lay on my bed crying because I could hear my brother running around downstairs playing with all his new toys. By the time my mom brought up my breakfast, my room was clean." – Nelly

xix) Sesame Sorrow

"I was taking the kids to Sesame Identify with ii friends and their kids. My 5 twelvemonth-old was behaving desperately and I threatened to exit him behind. He actually called my barefaced and said, 'You will still take me, you always practise.' Information technology broke my center on the inside, just I dropped him off at daycare and went with my 3 yr-former."  – Erin

20) Barbie Suicide

"My mom told my sisters that if they didn't put their Barbie stuff away, she was throwing it all out the window. I conspicuously recall existence 5 years-sometime and watching her chuck it ALL out the 2d floor window of our business firm. My sisters were outside playing and heard all their stuff crashing down." – Susan

21) The Biggest Lesson of All

"We were in the parking lot of Schlitterbahun (a giant waterpark 2+ 60 minutes from hom on the hottest mean solar day in Texas) when I smarted off that *i* last time and my parents turned around the automobile and drove right dorsum home! I don't know what was worse, being upset that we weren't going or my mom's disappointment/wrath because SHE really wanted to go! I knew my mom meant business concern subsequently that. And, it was a really good lesson for me now that I'm a parent as well. Sometimes it'south gotta hurt yous too!" – Alyssa

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