My step son heard me banging his mom (ex-wife) many times. Know how I know? The evil looks he would give me first thing in the morning. He’d forget after breakfast.

My wife and I were crying and laughing when my kids were here this summer. Told her if the kids didn’t behave I’d threaten them.

“If you don’t clean your room I’m going to take it out on your stepmother! And she likes being spanked! I’ll bang her right up against your wall!”

“If you give me that nasty look again I’m going to bang your stepmother in your bed and make you sleep in it!”

We were laughing so hard my daughter stuck her head in the door to see what was up, had that autistic look like, “This is clearly a social situation I’m unsure of, but I think it’s all OK?”

Nah, I ain’t that evil, but you gotta admit, those threats would probably work. Scar 'em for life, but I bet they’d behave!