Man forced son to carry 23# rock

[OntarioVanMan]

I once had my teenage son assemble a piece of furniture or something like that had about 48 screws...he wanted to help and grabbed a screw driver....I let him....after about 25-30 screws he had blisters .....I did the remaining with the power drill...the look he gave me......LOL..... I taught him a valuable lesson that day....THINK..there is usually a better way....

 

[layoutshooter]

I once had a much older second cousin who had a couple of sons. Those boys, doing what most boys do, sometimes got in trouble. They tried smoking, and got caught. My cousin did not yell, scream, anything, he went out and bought a box of big, green, cigars, and made the boys smoke them all, at one sitting. Both boys, not surprisingly, got REALLY sick, puking for hours, and neither ever smoked again.

Another time one of the boys broke a neighbors window, threw a rock through it. I don't remember if that window was broken on purpose or accident. My cousin did three "punishments". One, the boy was marched over to the house and made to apologize to the owners. Two, the boy was made to do "extra" chores to earn money to pay for the damage. Three, he took him down to the river and made him throw rocks until his arm just about fell off.

 

[AMonger]

All Dad has taught him is to ask 'how high?' when Dad says 'jump!', which certainly makes Dad feel proud, but is that all Dad wants to teach?

sigh... This is another of the all-too-common *******izations of phrases, kind of like how "couldn't care less" became "could care less"; or how Mellencamp wrote "I remember when you could stop a clock," believing it to mean the opposite of what it does--that she is so hideous, clocks break when she appears.

The correct use here is, when one in authority says "JUMP!" the obedient person does not say, "How high?" but rather jumps immediately without question or delay. Almost everybody gets that wrong.

Sorry for the hijack. Had to get that off my chest.