re: Creative threats your parents came up with

My parents always told me that I had an older brother who they had turned into a mannequin because he wouldn't act right. So with a threatened to do the same with me if I didn't straighten up.

They also threatened to take me down to the children's home and leave me there, and they partially followed through with this. My dad drove me to the children's home, and we sat in the truck and had a long talk. I was crying harder than ever.