Threats
"Researchers have also identified childrearing practices which are NEGATIVELY related to the development of empathy:
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THREATS AND/OR PHYSICAL PUNISHMENTS meted out in an attempt to improve children's behavior are counterproductive (Clarke 1984; Eisenberg-Berg and Mussen 1978; Kohn 1991; and Zahn-Waxler, Radke-Yarrow, and King 1979). "
Reflective Listening, 1994 Neil Katz and Kevin McNulty
"Solving
2. Threatening
Telling the other person what negative consequences will occur if he or she does something: alluding to the use of force.
You had better do this, or else
If you don't do it, then..
You'd better not try that...
I warn you, if you do that..."