Who goes to jail?

A friend of mine posted on Facebook that her son's grandmother told him if he didn't put his seatbelt on she would go to jail. His response was "How long will you be gone?"

Obviously, that's a pretty funny response. But it made me think: Am I the only one that tells my kids THEY will go to jail?  Not only did I tell one of my girls this; I got back up.

The day before the girls' birthday party Aubrey, my 2 year old, and I were out running errands. She had just learned how to unbuckle her carseat. This is a new trick and one she liked to do often. After about the 3rd or 4th time of having to pull over or get out at the red light to re-buckle her; I was over her little trick.  We get to the next red light and on the corner is a gas station with 3 policemen filling up their tanks. I decide to pull in and let the police officers have a little chat with my daughter.

I pull up to one of the officers, roll down my window and tell him about Aubrey's new little trick. I also explain that I told her if she keeps doing that and the policeman sees her she will go to jail because that is against the law. Next, I roll down her window and he explains that when you break the law you do in fact go to jail and the law says that she has to have her carseat buckled at all times.

He may have been a little nicer than I was about it, but it got the point across. It scared Aubrey enough that not only has she not unbuckled her seatbelt again; she will tell me if I forgot to do it. (Yes, that has happened on several occassions when we were rushing in the morning and I buckled one but not the other.)