These are warnings my mother presented to me as I was growing up:

• If you hold your face like that long enough, it will freeze that way.
  
• You are going to drive me to an early grave.
  
• I hope your children do to you, what you've done to me.
  
• As far as you all are concerned, I'm nothing more than a maid around here.
  
• If you go out without a hat, you will catch a cold.