Parents used this asinine logic to force us into ignoring their (let’s just call it what it is) hypocrisy and behaving as model citizens in their tyrant ruled world of early bedtimes and no juice with dinner. The household where yelling your name was a language all of it’s own, where cleaning your room was (like) literally the worst punishment, and where making your bed didn’t make sense when you were just gonna get back in it.

The idea of your loving, nurturing, mother/father unleashing enough fury to literally separate your soul from your body was terrifying. Parents struck fear into the hearts of young children everywhere with this line. It would eventually evolve into a way for your mom and dad to embarrass you in front of all your friends and family. Punking your kids in front of guests, let alone other parents, is like a parental right of passage. You get brownie points for that stuff.

Yes, we get it. Don’t let the outside air in nor the inside air out. The airs must remain separate. The air-keepers are frugal with their oxygen. Wasting it, comes at a very steep price.

Your parents say this when they are trying to prove that their child is a brainless pawn — a clone to one of the dumbest kinds of kids; the bridge-jumper. Like, seriously, who would follow ANYONE off a bridge, mom?!

The fact of the matter is, a child will never know just how much their parents love them. They’ll have an idea if/when they become parents of their own, but no phrase by any parent has ever held more true than this one about love.