Wed 12 March 2008 - Behave, or…
In the spirit of Overheard in Melbourne, this one heard the other day at Victoria Gardens shopping centre while on an Ikea run:
“If you don’t behave, I’ll take you to the police station!”
Puh-lease, talk about an empty threat. Unless the mum thought the kid was guilty of terrorism charges or something. As I’ve said before, lying to your kids doesn’t work.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:18am
welcome back!
Your website has been down for he past few days (or is it just me)?
March 12th, 2008 at 9:56am
… and demonizing the police force is a stupid thing to do. Quite irresponsible IMO.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:58am
Website has been accessible to me (daily).
March 12th, 2008 at 4:15pm
I was always threatened with a belting if I played up. And often received one. Of course, we can’t so much as threaten our kids with violence anymore now can we, let alone act on the threat?
March 12th, 2008 at 6:55pm
Funnily enough I was at the police station across from Ross House a few hours ago getting some forms countersigned and a copy witnessed. I could have sworn I heard phone books in the background
March 13th, 2008 at 11:41pm
It’s not unknown for parents to carry out on that threat, and the cops go along with it (ie. take the kid into a room and tell them they’re being let off with a warning but if mum has to bring them back they’ll be in trouble).
March 14th, 2008 at 2:43am
I couldn’t see the website for three days either.