Every time we went out, right before we'd get to wherever we were going, Mom would say "now, behave". When my sister had children of her own, she told that to her son and his reply was "I AM being have".

Unless I missed it, I don't see anyone mention the whole name, middle name included - that was always a sign that you were in trouble.

I find that I use it with my onw kids, too - I don't think about it, it just comes out.

I can remember saying" Go into the living room and see what your sister is doing and tell her not to do that"!!

As agony mentioned, use of the whole name meant we were in a lot of trouble.

One my grandmother used to say, and that we would repeatedly test, was "Sing at the table and whistle in the bed and the devil will grab you by the hair of the head."

'Wait till your daddy gets home'
'Don't make me stop this car and get a switch'

The use of Heather Lynne with a kind of emphasis on that last syllable going up a bit at the end...I was in trouble!

My grandmother used to threaten us with the apple board, but it would crack us up...by the time she was a grandmother to us, she'd gone through a couple of her own children and grandchildren and we were darling angels!
But my mother got so irked at that apple board threat, that she took it, hid it, and buried it!

I don't think there even was an apple board by the time we were there.

Something my mom always said "I'll give you something to cry about!" Never made sense to me. If I was crying I already had something to cry about. At least it seemed so to me back then.

I heard this mother yell that at a kid after slamming his hand in the car door!

Oh nice mother!

Every time we left the house my mother would ask us if we had our jersey. This is Africa so I wonder if she thought we would get cold. I try never to say it to my kids - if they get cold they can borrow one.

When my children were going to parties or to their friends' homes for any other reason I always told them they have a pocket full of pleases and a pocket full of thank you and when they got home I wanted to see the pockets empty!

That reminds me of my daughter who went to a party and ate a lot (as was her wont!) When asked if she had had " an elegant sufficiency" she said:
" Oh no thanks I couldn't eat one I am too full!"

My grandmother who'd tell my sister and myself 'Girls, don't be ugly!' and we'd laugh and go another round of teasing each other unmercifully in the backseat of her big car.

i was in a home so i didn't have parents who said things to me.

but i have one for my girls.........all good things come to those who wait, and you've been waiting for a good smack.

Thats pretty funny Duchey!

Wait until you have children of your own one day!

I remember a friend of ours from an enormous European Mormon family and his wife from an enormous CAtholic Texan family and they had their three little kids and we were on an outing in a big park with temptations like little horse carts and sweets and ice cream. Our kid was asking for a ride on the ponies as were theirs.

As I grew up the oldest of four and I knew what it was like to hear, 'we can't afford it' when we went to the fair or, on rare occasions, we'd get one ride, and have to enjoy it...well, we were strolling and at one point, their kids asked for a ride on those pony carts...and he said, 'no, we can't afford ....then finally said, 'ok, well you've been so good today, you deserve one turn..but that's all.' and he told me, I grew up never ever getting anything like this...with eleven siblings, so, I do occasionally tell them, just this once....

Oh, my grandmother would ask us if we had underskirts on...meaning slips.
What a laugh we'd have about that one.

I'm one of ten, so when our parents got our name correct, we knew we were in trouble. When they were angry enough to remember our names, oh boy, that was it.

My grandfather was fond of saying "People in hell want ice water" whenever we said we wanted something.

I was a foster child from the age of 10 as my mother was unable to look after my siblings and me after my father died so I'm just making up this whole parenting thing as I go along. I say things like, "Well I didn't speak to my mother like that when I was 11" (Which is perfectly true because I didn't live with her at that age). One of my favourite saying is "The world's smallest violin is playing the world's saddest song". (That's when they mope around for no reason)
If one of them wants to do something I strongly disaprove of and they say 'everybody's doing it' I tell them, "Well everybody didn't get on the Ark with Noah and look what happened to them"
In general they're good kids and I don't have to use 'lines' too often

my mum was a big fan of "i'm gonna sell you to the gypsies" when i was being a difficult child. unfortunately for her, i sort of liked that idea, so it wasn't much of a deterrent...she occasionally switched it up with "i'm going to throw you in a snowbank" during the winter, but since i liked snow, that one didn't really scare me much either...although actually packaging me up in my snowsuit and plunking me in a snowbank was a pretty good way of getting me out of her hair for a few hours, now that i think of it...