“Just wait until your father gets home” was one of my mother’s most popular expressions that always kept my sister and me on the straight and narrow around our house when we were kids. My dad wasn’t really abusive but he had a short temper at times and didn’t seem to mind giving us spankings when he felt they were deserved … and sarcastic back-talk to my mother at any kind of a chore request like this was definitely a punishable-by-spanking offense.
“Just wait until your father gets home” was one of my mother’s most popular expressions that always kept my sister and me on the straight and narrow around our house when we were kids. My dad wasn’t really abusive but he had a short temper at times and didn’t seem to mind giving us spankings when he felt they were deserved … and sarcastic back-talk to my mother at any kind of a chore request like this was definitely a punishable-by-spanking offense.