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.

 

[1trakm1nd]

I remeber when I was afraid of movies like them now I find them gruesomly hilarious, and usually burst into laughter upon someone being sliced open for their skull to be removed, or freaked out by some creepy thing behind them they saw in a mirror.

problem is, if it doesnt have a plot I can get into the gore and horror bore me instead.

 

[Darthracoon]

The worst case of parenting i have ever seen is in a kfc where johnny fatasf*ck and his mother come in and mother says "what do you want then son?" in a supressed voice like that of an unhappy or scared dog.
Johhny replies "Family bucket, aaaand boneless box, yea! and kiddie meal! they have cool toys" mother replies"
but johnny you promised you would eat less,you promised" and this is the worst thing ever johnny replies
"DAMMIT F*CKING B*TCH IMA HUNGRE WAAAAAAA!" and proceeded to punch his mother in the crotch and stomach, that was just really strange because she just took it and went on with buying him some kfc.

Other instances is trying to get mugged by a five year old on a pushbike trying to mug me(him with no weapon)and a teenage mother bringing her daughter into school.