What Dad REALLY Meant

The Devil Is In The Details, and sometimes the details come in the form of the eldest child explaining how things “really work around here…”
(scene takes place in a crowded kitchen. Dad is cooking dinner and turns around to see three children doing something horrifically dangerous)

Dad: “GUYS, Stop that this INSTANT! You could get badly hurt!”

Big Sister, whispering loudly to her brothers: “That means we’re not allowed to do that when Daddy is watching.”