Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
I wish more people would talk about things their parents did wrong and mistakes they made raising their kids. Hell of alot more constructive than patting themselves on the back all the time.  |
My dad drank alot, which let me steal money from his wallet to take to the arcade when I was in Jr High. I am sure that didn't help but the thick leather belt I got when I did something real bad ( ala egging the house across the street or pouring gasoline across the alley and lighting it when a car drove by) sure made me think twice about doing it. I sure did my best to not screw up when he was sober. He was a passive drunk so we didn't get any of that stuff.
My mom on the other hand was somewhat of a pushover when it came to us kids. If we buggered up badly we got the back end of an oversized Avon brush or a wooden spoon, but I can remember more than one time when we were out in public and we were unruly to the point where we should have been beat right on the spot.
One time we sent her to the hospital with a nervous breakdown since we were being so bad. I remember jumping in the van and holding down the locks so she couldn't get us out to discipline us, kicking in the back door because my brother had escaped a beating I was giving him to run to the knife drawer to get something to defend himself with.
Oh, the good times we had.
That said, if my kids try to pull that stuff I doubt I will be as nice as my parents were. Kids need to have some fear of their parents, not fear of physical harm in 99.9% of the cases, but a fear that they will be disciplined consistantly according to their actions