Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

I've often wondered exactly how this scriptural reference would be manifest. I think tonight I saw it. And if I were Webster and had to define this phrase, it would go like this:

Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth: The reaction mom gets when she tells her girls they will not be able to have their ice cream after dinner because they have not listened to mom after repeated opportunities.

Really, it was as though I told them they were doomed to eternal damnation.

Thank goodness- actually, triple and quadruple thank goodness for the wonderful mother in my own life who has put up with my weeping and wailing over the years. I'm certain I've had my own bouts of gnashing of teeth as well. And she is still always there when I need her. I am so incredibly grateful for my mom, and my mother-in-law as well, who have raised me and my husband. As I am going through a lot of the same things they have encountered over the past 30 years, I am so grateful to have someone who has endured and is able to give me counsel, and for someone who seems to continue to endure. I guess I have at least 30 more years of being a mom. I have a feeling, though, it's a role I won't easily give up. What an opportunity to be a mom. Even if I put up with some weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth on occasion.