What are some idiomatic expressions or adages or phrases involving parenting/the raising of children?

 

I’ll be upstairs in five minutes to tuck you in and read you a story.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. 

 

  What do we say when someone gives us something or does something nice for us?
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Do you want a spanking?

Which sometimes turns out to be a rhetorical question...

Of course it does! 

 

 Why does everyone in this household  think I’m the unpaid on-call 24/7 taxi driver? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.


[Updated for modern times: taxi Uber or Lyft or Ryde.]
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If I have to tell you one more time........

 

  Can’t I even have enough privacy to go to the bathroom around this place without  being followed by half the population of Tiny Town?
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I'll love you forever. I'll like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be. 

Two-and-a-half ...

Two-and-three-quarters.....

:)

 

  Just because everyone else does it doesn’t mean you have to do it too. If they jumped off a bridge . . . 

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Eureka! a non-controversial answer whose accuracy I can apprecciate.

 

  (The use of the exclamation point is indication of closing punctuation, therefore, the next word is the beginning of a sentence and as such should be capitalized.)

Are you suggesting that I would give an incomplete sentence the dignity of a capitalized beginning?

What do you have against using semicolons when necessary?

 

  I do not know to what you are referring. 

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If you don't know, I can't explain it to you.

 

  My house, my rules.
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  Tell your friends that you have chores to do and homework to finish.
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