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man I am glad my parents were nothing like this nutty woman
by aurem1 16y ago
man I am glad my parents were nothing like this nutty woman
- bugsy 16y agoI wouldn't call her nutty - I am sure she is sane and well intentioned - but I did cringe throughout reading that article. What I didn't say was, "Wow if only my parents pushed an micromanaged me like that I would be successful and happy."
- cgranade 16y agoGood intentions can't justify abuse, and I don't know of a better for a pattern of calling one's child "garbage": Once when I was young—maybe more than once—when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in our native Hokkien dialect. It worked really well.