No kidding!!! That’s what kept me from doing things I shouldn’t. My dad only had to give me that look. And my sister would start crying even before he walked in the room...lol
My dad was a career NCO in the army. Then he became a junior high school teacher. First rule was “Never embarrass your parents”. Anyone calling our parents and telling them we had misbehaved was an embarrassment. Discipline was swift, sure and unpleasantly painful.
That made me and my two older brothers cautious about acting stupidly, most of the time.