Credo
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Post by Credo on Apr 27, 2020 10:00:52 GMT -8
The photo and caption here are meant to be funny, but they remind us that the parenting we grew up with was just a bit uh...less gentle than how it's often done today.
Any good stories of things your parents did that today would be, at best, frowned upon, or, at worst, be subject to possible criminal charges?
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davidsf
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Post by davidsf on Apr 27, 2020 10:08:05 GMT -8
My Dad was the disciplinarian. Mom’s favorite line actually was, “wait until your father gets home” because she was the ENFP who always wanted everyone to get along and everyone to like her (plus, she had no experience at all raising boys since her father left her and her sister and mother when she was a young girl).
i really don’t think Dad liked the role, but someone had to do it and he was an only child of my very strict disciplinarian grandmother and relatively passive grandfather.
Dad’s discipline was always with his belt. Never a switch, never a board, and very seldom his hand... but we got the belt.
and he whipped us until we cried... so my plan to NOT give him the satisfaction of making me cry probably worked against me, now that I think about it. He also caught on very quickly to our “book in the pants” or “plate in the pants” tricks, too.
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Credo
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Post by Credo on Apr 27, 2020 10:35:17 GMT -8
My mom once straight up threw a fork at me from across the dinner table, from which I had to duck my head. I can't remember what smart-ass 14-year-old comment of mine prompted this but I'm sure her action was totally justified.
At an earlier age my younger brother and I were being awful before bedtime--as usual--and my stepfather made us stand at attention outside on the cold front porch of our house in our underwear for about a half hour.
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RSM789
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Post by RSM789 on Apr 27, 2020 18:25:41 GMT -8
That picture reminded me of myself, but not as the kid, as the parent.
One day we went over to my sisters house to go swimming, her boys were 7, 5 & 3 and our twin boys were 3. All of her boys were in the water and one of my boys had joined him, but the other wouldn't get in. I spent about 5 minutes talking to him, trying to get him to put his foot in the water, but he was being a little jerk. Finally my sister said "he loves the water, just throw him in". It dawned on me right then that my household was not a democracy, it was a dictatorship and in this situation, I did know what was best. As he wailed "No, No", I picked him up and threw him toward the water. He hit his head on the side of the pool & drowned.
No, that last sentence was a lie. Within 3 seconds of hitting the water, he was playing with his brother & cousins. Stayed in the water for about 8 hours.
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Luca
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Post by Luca on Apr 27, 2020 21:16:15 GMT -8
One of my favorite George W Bush lines was after the time that Bill Clinton and his wife were reported as having huge arguments in the White House and yelling at each other, with Hillary throwing things. They tried to cover it up with the typical “C’mon, y’know, married couples always argue.” Etc, etc
When GW was running for president he was asked if he and his wife ever got into fights and he said something like “Not serious ones.” He was asked if his father and mother ever argued. He looked surprised and gave a complete deadpan answer: “Nobody argues with my mother.“
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