- 48,229
- 226,338
Parent Thread
- Thread starter Hatorade
- Start date
-
Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
- 38,376
- 16,293
I could've said she gracefully and beautifully gave birth in a celebration of love and life but it wasn't that. Not even close
- 1
Arative
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 3,066
- 4,776
Yeah I know it's normal, just hard when you got a pregnant wife who is all hormonal and her kid is saying I don't like mommy. At least I can hang the threat of Santa not coming because he's not being nice to mommy over his head.
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
- 38,376
- 16,293
That's still pretty shitty to say. My oldest is 2.5 and he doesnt say it but he definitely portrays that same thought. I tell her it's because I work all day and he misses me but it doesn't really help.
Arative
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 3,066
- 4,776
My son is a daddy's boy. I'm clearly his favorite. Other times he'll be really lovey towards my wife. He gets hurt and he'll go to her for comfort, out of the blue he'll say I love you mommy. So its not constant dickish behavior all the time. I asked him once why he says he doesn't like mommy and he said its because she doesn't play with me. He doesn't understand she's pregnant, she can't exactly get on the floor and play with him.
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
- 38,376
- 16,293
Arative
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 3,066
- 4,776
Nope, we just got toddlers that are dicks! Although I think all toddlers are dicks really.
- 48,229
- 226,338
All toddlers are irrational dicks. And when they figure out something bugs or hurts you, it has become a tool for them.
- 48,229
- 226,338
Babies are like exotic pets - they just eat, sleep, and shit.
Toddlers are dicks.
Then you get a few years when they think you're awesome, and want nothing more than to hang out with you and love you.
Then they become surly teenagers whose greatest ambition is to sleep.
I hope having adult children is awesome. It's a heck of a lot of work to get them to adulthood. I just want to enjoy these people.
Toddlers are dicks.
Then you get a few years when they think you're awesome, and want nothing more than to hang out with you and love you.
Then they become surly teenagers whose greatest ambition is to sleep.
I hope having adult children is awesome. It's a heck of a lot of work to get them to adulthood. I just want to enjoy these people.
- 2
Aldarion
Egg Nazi
- 9,983
- 27,511
Man, with all due respect, reading posts like this is like reading someone say "How can I find information on the internet? I dont use search engines".
Heres the deal. Kids need to be yelled at and even spanked sometimes. The key is, you do it really, really, really rarely. When you do it, they cry. Thats not a bug. Its a feature. We arent here to be our kids friends, we're here to train them how to be adults. You dont get there without a couple yelling ats and a couple spankings.
If youre doing it right, you spank them once or twice and yell at them once or twice. They know youre serious, and you never have to do it again.
My best tactic with my 3 old these days, who is going through a defiant phase, is I threaten her with counting to 3. The threat is all it takes. I dont even have to actually count to 3, let alone yell, let alone spank her. She knows I'm serious, because I have yelled and spanked a couple times. I say "if you dont do it right now, I'm gonna count". She says "OK but dont count". OK little girl, I wont count. You can consider that a victory while youre doing what I told you in the first place.
My wife yells all damn day. I yell almost never, but when I do, they ball their eyes out. It makes an impact. And without any doubt whatsoever, they like me more and behave better for me. Making your kids cry occasionally is not a problem, its a requirement to produce well behaved kids and functional adults.
Last edited:
- 1
Bandwagon
Kolohe
- 24,604
- 66,129
- 48,229
- 226,338
ZyyzYzzy
RIP USA
- 25,295
- 48,789
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
- 38,376
- 16,293
Don't agree with spanking. Can't get down with that.
We tell my kid to go to timeout and he goes. If I rarely break out the dad voice he cries on the spot. Better ways to control a child than with violence.
And yes, my dad spanked. I wasn't raised with my dad being a softie (although he is a softie around grandkids)
We tell my kid to go to timeout and he goes. If I rarely break out the dad voice he cries on the spot. Better ways to control a child than with violence.
And yes, my dad spanked. I wasn't raised with my dad being a softie (although he is a softie around grandkids)
moonarchia
The Scientific Shitlord
- 24,528
- 46,191
Spanking has its place in your repertoire of tools as a parent, but it should be the last resort. Things that need immediate obedience. Screaming in public, hitting their siblings or animals, etc. Short sharp shock of pain makes the lesson stick. It's Pavlovian. Words are best, but they won't always be effective. If you're not willing and able to do your duty as a parent, then you are failing your child in the long run. Spare the rod, spoil the child isn't hyperbole. You can look at the self entitled cunts running the SJW show for all the proof you'll ever need for that.
- 1
Larnix
Blackwing Lair Raider
- 580
- 2,722
Every kid response differently and that includes time-outs or spanks. My 5 year old ( Dec 22 ) son right now refuses to listen to the majority of my directions until I lose my cool. We had a incident on Saturday over him not cleaning his toys up. After I had my freak out using my dad voice he cleaned his mess up in about 3 minutes flat. I asked him why he doesn't do things that I ask him unless I yell and he responded with " When you are nice to me I don't think I have to do what you want". It took all I had to not shake the life out of that little person.
chaos
Buzzfeed Editor
- 17,324
- 4,839
My dad is living with us now, and its hilarious how the ideas he had melt away in the reality of living with young kids again. Like, he bought my daughters a bunch of these ceramic dolls thinking they would love these things. They all have different outfits or whatever. But really they are meant as collectibles, the kind of things old ladies have up on their shelves. My youngest takes one and immediately smashes it, on accident, she had no idea it was different from her other dolls. I think that hilariously traumatized her in some way probably. I warned him about all of this ahead of time, they're young and wild and they'r sisters so they are pretty rough, our house is just fucking loud all the time and crowded and almost never clean. He's doing ok so far. I think it will be better when we have our addition done and he's got his own space.
Siliconemelons
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
- 12,237
- 18,438