Just curious. I’ve only ever personally heard mothers using this. Did dads ever use this term?
You mean, a tiny atomizer?
Yes, especially when I was a bad boy and got up on the counters and shed on the furniture. 
Seriously, what do you mean by “little mister”?
Sigh… yes…a tiny atomizer. They spray misbehaving boys with Chanel # 5, and tell them that they’re going to turn into little girls, and their pee pees will drop off, if they don’t behave.
“Did fathers ever use the term “little mister” in disciplining boys, or only mothers?”
I never heard anybody use the term “little mister” in disciplining boys.
I’d think it was when your parents used your full given name you were in trouble.
I’ve never heard “little mister”.
There was “young man” and “young lady”. Occasionally if I was being smart at my mother, I’d get “little miss”, but that was extremely rare. Mostly it was when the full name was used that there was big trouble.
As Eldon the house painter on Murphy Brown said when Murphy was trying to decide on a name for her baby:
“He has to have a middle name – for when you’re mad at him.”
And, when I met NASA astronaut Livingston Holder (circa 1987), and stiffly addressed him as Mr. Holder. He laughed out loud and confided that the only person who called him ‘Mister’ was his wife, when he was in trouble.
In my experience, “little mister” was used by adults who wanted kids to knock off whatever they were doing, but the kids always knew the adult wasn’t really mad.
I’d have to agree with the other posters. Trouble has three names.
For discipline my old man used a razor strop. I don’t think he called it “little mister” though. 
That just made me misbhave even more.
Was I the only one to totaly missunderstand the OP title. I thought little mister was a euphamism for penis. So the OP was asking do fathers use their penis to disciplin their son or only to disciplin their wife? :eek:
i agree with the three-name warning
…but i also remember hearing…
buddy (as in “listen up buddy”)
mrs. lady (“i don’t know who you think you are, mrs. lady”)
pal
sister (“listen here, sister”)
but primary i remember there being some mention of straightening a wheelbase. yeah, i definitely remember that.
Bippy, that’s exactly what I thought.
What!!!???
Do you know of anyone else who’s heard of this? Or was it a family thing?
I’ve never heard of anything remotely like this. If you’re gonna post anything so obscure, you should explain it in the OP. (I had the same kind of thoughts Bippy did, trying to make sense of the OP)
It seems sort of male chauvinistic, since the punishment is that the boy will become a girl, and that’s a bad thing, as if females are inferior beings. What do such people threaten girls with? (“We’ll spray you with Right Guard and Old Spice. And you’ll grow a beard.”)
Um… I think astro was being sarcastic there, Cal. He did go on to ask if anyone had used the term Little Mister. Which I’ve never heard in my life, but…
Nope. My father went out of his way to castigate me, and he never called me little mister. Not Mom, either. I’ve unearthed a large load of ancient feelings, and for what? Just so astro (perhaps not the cartoon dog) could solve a deep genetic puzzle? I’m starting to doubting my commitment to fighting ignorance. Whooo, this is getting metaphysical. :eek:
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Sigh… yes…a tiny atomizer. They spray misbehaving boys with Chanel # 5, and tell them that they’re going to turn into little girls, and their pee pees will drop off, if they don’t behave.
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They’ve obviously transposed the concepts of punishment and reward.
Well, I’ve certainly heard (and used) mister, and I perhaps have said something along the lines of “Well, aren’t you little mister poopypants” or something.
I haven’t used my penis for disciplinary purposes yet.
My Mom used “Mister” to chastise both my Dad and my Kid Brother. I don’t ever remember hearing “Little Mister,” but then, my brother wasn’t even little the day he was born. When she was mad at him it was “Entirefirstname Middlename.”
She did, however, refer to both my sister and I as “Little Lady” on occasion. (Really, just my sister, as I was a perfectly behaved, wonderful child :rolleyes: .) The last time she called me “Little Lady” was a month and a half ago. I’m not such a perfectly behaved, wonderful adult.
When my Dad was angry he simply didn’t talk to us, we just knew through the series of looks and grunts.
~S