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Rehearsing one dance routine, they were scolded for their lack of synchronisation: "It's got to sound like one person walking down the stairs. It can't sound like a group of people falling down the stairs."

This isn’t about scolding parents for feeding their children unhealthy foods.

“Come back here so I can scold you!” hollered Mr. Beaver as he swam after the otters.

She cried and scolded him, promising to visit and repeating what she had said when he came out to her all those years before: “I wish you told me sooner.”

One Japanese mother, who didn’t want to be named, said she was scolded by her husband for considering an epidural when their baby was almost due in 2021.