When children misbehave in the car, adults behind the wheel are left with no other choice but to issue threats about the status of the current journey. Here are some of the most popular/effective threats used by today’s top parents:

• “I’ll turn this car around.”
  
• “I’ll turn this car around, then around again, taking us back the right way and making you feel guilty about not receiving a worse punishment.”
  
• “I’ll turn this car into a car-nival and kick you out while I ride all the rides.”
  
• “I’ll turn the lid on this can of mixed nuts, and it may turn out that they’re not nuts at all, but snakes. Not real snakes of course, but snakes still too dangerous to unleash in a moving car.”
  
• “I’ll turn into a wolf during a full moon and then I won’t be able to drive because wolves can’t drive.”
  
• “I’ll turn a blind eye when the carjacker I’ve hired to teach you a lesson goes too far by driving more than 300 miles before telling you what’s going on.”
  
• “I’ll turn you over to the police and get a big reward for capturing America’s worst child.”