Honestly this is the he worst way to make a child stop crying. Threats can cause scars.
I think the problem isn’t the “threat” but the implied “I couldn’t possibly care less why you’re crying”
“At least I never hit you!” “If I did that at your age I’d get beat.” “I got the belt for talking back”
Yeah I wish I had the validity of physical scars, nobody sees the ones words leave.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but soon the sting will pass
But names can dig so many graves, you won’t know where to stand.
hey now, some of our parents at least voted against enshitification.
they didn’t do shit like protest or volunteer, but they taught my bro and I empathy quite well.
I like to blame lead, but does lead poisoning correlate with marked low emotional intelligence? I think, rather, there is a fundamental flaw in the original patriarchal system that led men to develop toddler-level emotional intelligence, and the women just went along with it.
Now that we have wisened up, accept more diversity, and given some power to women, the toddler men are freaking out because they had their special blanket taken away. And one consequence is accumulation of all the resources.
Sometimes it feels like my mom is the only boomer that isn’t a giant pile of shit. But, I guess you don’t typically teach special Ed for over 40 years if you’re a bad person.
Meanwhile you, as a kid, enjoyed the good life because of it.
This is such a shit take. You brought people into this world, you owe them, not the other way around.
The good life is the bare minimum a parent should provide their child.
