In the Grocery Store One Day You Spy a Mother

Multiple Choice

In the grocery store one day you spy a mother and her two unruly children.She consistently threatens that she is going to spank them when she gets them home.They ignore her threats.Finally,she swats one of them on the butt,making the other child laugh,suggesting that she has lost control of the situation.This could be called:

A) coercion.
B) idle threat.
C) the paradox of authority.
D) Keynesian authority.