The misbehaving child is usually caned on the thighs, calves, buttocks or palms.

Her fierce face was lined with the frustrated fury that only a misbehaving child could inspire.

Chill out in there, she thought, talking to the flickering blue flames as if the magic was a misbehaving child.

Then she leaned across the little table and gave me a whap on the ear, like I was a misbehaving child.

A misbehaving child was set straight by everyone ignoring him for a day.

With his typical confidence, Intensive looked to Empath as though she were a misbehaving child.

He looked at her half-questioningly, half-warningly, like a parent at a misbehaving child.

When she looked at me again her face was not that of a misbehaving child but of an adult on a mission of capital importance.

When I was a boy, parents thought nothing of taking a horse whip to a misbehaving child, or beating them bloody.

Hands on his hips, he rotated and stared at Wesley as he might a misbehaving child.