W.H. Auden’s mother had interesting ideas about discipline. He remembers:

My elder brother repeated at a tea-party, where a certain lady was present, a remark of my aunt’s to the effect that the lady smelt.

For the next few days, to all his toys, to his sponge and toothbrush and all his belongings, he found a paper pinned on which were written the words: ‘Never Repeat’.

From “Auden” by Richard Davenport-Hines, p.11