When my son was still young my husband threatened to send him to the gypsies if he was bad. He reacted so violently and desperately that we decided it wasn't a tactic we wanted to use in the future.
Well last night, after our daughter filled the fish tank, yet again, this time with toliet paper, he tried it again. I told him right away I thought it was a bad idea and when he was done terrorizing the kids into thinking we didn't love them I gave him the silent treatment until he took it back and apologized to the kids.
I'm sure everyone has different upbringing. Some people have two loving parents, some have one and some don't have anyone to love them. I think it would be harder on those who do have loving parents to be suddenly told that though we promised to love them forever, we've changed are mind and are selling them to strangers. I can't remember my mother using this form of punishment but I can imagine the sheer terror of knowing that "Tomorrow the gypsies are coming to pick you up."
Makes me think of Bush's "Shock and Awe" tactic of earlier in the war. It didn't get a whole lot done but it sure made him feel important.
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