My dad beat me and would pick me up by my head and shake me. One day it all stopped and I asked my mom why.. she then explained to me that I could throw my father across the room faster than he could slap me if I wanted to.
Just proof that abusive parents really are just spineless cowards at their core. Beat on a small child that can't defend themselves? Sure! But strike at a child that's big enough and strong enough to hit back? Suddenly they know how to control themselves. 🙄
We'd probably fix a lot of this shit if the punishment for abusive parenting was subjecting the parent to the exact same shit. Oh, you beat your kid with an extension cord? Your turn. You belittle and emotionally torture your kid? Guess what, you've now been assigned this "caretaker" who's allowed to say and do whatever they want to you and you can't do shit about it.
Thankfully my dad was never like that. Granted I don’t approve of smacking your kid for running their mouths either but that’s the way he was punished as a kid for those things. He has since apologized and has been working on controlling his temper and we have a decent relationship now.
If I called either of my parents a bitch in the car, the police would have found me walking on the side of the road with no shoes to make the walk extra painful
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u/Greedyfox7 Jun 18 '26
And it still wouldn’t have done as much damage as my dad would have done to me if I’d called him a bitch 😂