That's basically the only way you can look at it. There's nothing you can do about it now, but as long as you can take some sort of lesson out of it -- even if it's something like, "well, I know that fucked me up, so I'm going to avoid doing that to anyone, anywhere, ever." You learn from your parents either by following their example, or seeing what they did and doing the opposite.
We be deep, bro.
Balls deep.
Can't really agree with the belt, but I definitely agree with the discipline part. Especially when I hear stuff like, "I don't know where you get this from, but I'm sick of it!" Really, lady? Maybe if you stopped spoiling your kid rotten and letting him have everything that he wants whenever he starts to throw a tantrum, and actually laid down some rules and expectations, you wouldn't be in this predicament.
My mom used to take me and my brother shopping all the time. She had a pretty good rule -- if we were good for the entire shop, we each have a chocolate bar on the way out. If we were bad, she would spank us right there in the cereal aisle.
We had enough experience with spankings from my mom that we never risked it.![]()
I don't think I'll have the heart to physically hurt my kids. I imagine I'll go the grounding route or some such. Perhaps a spank like my dad did me at the store but that's about it.
Although I know my kids are gonna be well behaved. I can not have a little heathen under my roof.
I played my NES right up until the N64 was released. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a Super Nintendo until 1995. I got my NES in 1991.
I have those, too. I'm pretty sure mine are stretch marks, though.
I probably shouldn't talk about scars, but I'm covered in them.
And that's all I'm going to say about that.
I played the NES until we got a SNES and sometime later a PSX. My cousin had an N64 and we played a lot of Goldeneye.
Although I learned to read by playing Final Fantasy before I was in school.
And yeah I understand. I'll talk about every one my scars (which is a lot) if people give me the chance. I love war stories.![]()