Adventures in bad parenting...

[Rocksa]

So I'm sitting on my couch with my 2 year old son watching the Toxic Avenger, when I glance over and see him looking at Melvin/Toxie, completely still, frozen in some kind of abject horror. It's at that point that I realize, even though he loved watching (no I mean it, he claps and actually cheers) the AvP movies, Aliens, Predator, and Cloverfield, and has been fine with all the other horror and slasher flicks (again, usually laughing and clapping at them) I've shared with him, he can still get freaked out by something that wasn't supposed to be scary.


So, that being said, I figured I'd see if anybody else has some interesting stories in (bad) parenting to share. Whether something they did to their own kids, that their parent did to them, or that they saw somebody else do to their kids.

 

[Anarchemitis]

You let your child watch slasher films?

 

[nmmoore13]

My brother walked on me playing Gears of War, as I chainsawed someone in half. Hes four now and actually plays COD4. He's pretty good. I'm not sure if its good that he's exposed to guns and knifing but hell, he's a very good sniper.

 

[Dance The Revolution]

I just imagined a baby clapping to an extremely violent movie, and now I am laughing.

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

well my 6 year old brother is pretty good a videogames. for his age anyway. he whooped Ridley on metroid Zero mission

 

[pha kin su pah]

Play GTA, "if you kill that hooker, you can get your money back!"

 

[milomalo]

my mom let me watch horror movies when i was 3... since then i love them... so... that not bad... bad if you hit your child XD

 

[fedpayne]

My parents dressed my brother and I alike untill we were 17.

 

[milomalo]

My parents dressed my brother and I alike untill we were 17.

how old are you now?

 

[zirnitra]

My parents dressed my brother and I alike untill we were 17.

...you know most people start dressing themselves at about 5 right?

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

My parents dressed my brother and I alike untill we were 17.

maybe they are professional fashion designers

I support that

 

[fedpayne]

:'(

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Ouch... five 'bastard' points to Darth Mobius (The man with the MiG-29 avatar. I prefer the Su-27 for shape, but the '29 is nice aircraft. Sure, it dosen't have the sleek elegance of the Typhoon, or the savage lines of a Tornado, or even the looming, malevolent evil that is a Sukhoi works aircraft, but there's just a certain style I can'y pinpoint.)

There is nothing wrong with physically punishing your child. It tends to work, which is more than you can say for other means of discipline. But actually punching or using violence beyond a rebukeful slap is nothing more than sociopathic cruelty at it's greatest. I should know- and you can't excuse drink, for my parents, while they do occasionallp clip me, do not ever use violence when they drink (Excepting self-defence) for they know how easy it is to be violent. And now I've wandered so far off my original point I'm going to need a map to find it again.

 

[rayman 101]

You let a 2 year old child watch AvP? No wonder kids are shooting themselves.

 

[Ixus Illwrath]

http://www.wdtimes.com/articles/2008/09/05/news/news3.txt

Nuff said.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

There is nothing wrong with physically punishing your child. It tends to work, which is more than you can say for other means of discipline. But actually punching or using violence beyond a rebukeful slap is nothing more than sociopathic cruelty at it's greatest. I should know- and you can't excuse drink, for my parents, while they do occasionallp clip me, do not ever use violence when they drink (Excepting self-defence) for they know how easy it is to be violent. And now I've wandered so far off my original point I'm going to need a map to find it again.

I've never in my entire life seen any parent being calm and in control while clinically slapping or physically punishing their kid. When parents hit their kid it's because they are frustrated, confused, and angry not knowing what to do next.

That my friend, is bad parenting. It is common, and I don't think people should go to jail for being average idiots but lets not shit ourselves into thinking it is the intelligent high road.

 

[Unknower]

You let your 2-year-old child watch Alien movies? What the fuck, man? What the fuck?

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

You let your 2-year-old child watch Alien movies? What the fuck, man? What the fuck?

Does their face melt off when they watch them? I don't get why people are in an uproar over that.