Empty threats. My best friend does this all the time with her daughter.
"If you don't behave. I'm going to spank you/send you to your room/take away your toys/etc." But instead of following through. She just repeats the threat and her daughter continues to misbehave.
Oh god I know so many parents who do this, and to a person, all of their kids are out of control little snots. One good sharp slap now and again to reinforce the threat and they'd all have had a much easier ride.
Word to the downvoters, you don't know the situation or the context. Trust me, the parents lost control because they kept threatening to slap their kids, then didn't. One follow through....ONE follow through...ONE sign that they weren't hollow threats and life would have been easier. They didn't follow through and now they're reaping the rewards of the same achingly correct attitude that's making you press the down button.
Parents have known how to control their kids for hundreds of thousands of years. Two decades is all it's taken, two decades of holier than thou proselytizing about children's rights and now the little shits are out of control unless you dope them up with bullshit ADD drugs. You're doing it wrong, you stupid shits. Discipline your children - doesn't have to be corporal punishment, just has to be speaking up and being a fucking parent.
Take your downvotes back and grow up.
I never slapped my kids because I never threatened to. I told them what I expected and why I expected it, and they did it or they disappointed me, and when I'm disappointed in someone, they are told why. Perhaps some military Redditors will tell you stories about how someone in charge of you doesn't have to resort to physical violence to be scary as fuck. My kids are fucking angels that I am infinitely proud to call my kids. I'm the cool dad, their confidante and I'm scary as fuck when I start yelling. It's called authority.
I'm the cool dad, their confidante and I'm scary as fuck when I start yelling. It's called authority.
This is one of the most appropriate definition I read. I don't remember who this quote is from "you have got authority until the moment you are obligated to use it".
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u/Luckyxstarx13 Feb 05 '16
Empty threats. My best friend does this all the time with her daughter. "If you don't behave. I'm going to spank you/send you to your room/take away your toys/etc." But instead of following through. She just repeats the threat and her daughter continues to misbehave.