I challenged the wisdom (not to mention the honesty) of your habit of trying to manage your son with mainly-empty threats, and asserted the superior effectiveness of bodily pain. Now it occurs to me that the UK Government is making the same mistake with the unwelcome Channel migrants (boat-loads of whom are crossing every week under the noses of the Gendarmerie who turn a blind eye to punish us for taking back control). Sink just one of those boats; just one; and the entire traffic ceases immediately. It can even probably be done without casualties; I gather they could turn the boats back, but they are not allowed because there would be a RISK of casualties! So the traffic continues and the immigration system is swamped, with enormous harms (probably including fatal harms, but "out of sight, out of mind").