The Let-It-All-Out: We're Here For You. No, Really.

[Krisan Thyme]

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.

Yeeeah.. I learned a lot. If by any miracle I do manage to end up a Father one day (and I would love that) I know exactly what not to do.
Seriously, I have a very good idea of what to avoid.. Can't say I'd make a perfect parent, but I like to think I'd do a lot better than what my own did with me.

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 was an exceptionally loyal and good child, and I.. really was never spanked much. You need to be really firm with children and actively punish them, and yea.. I do think spankings are necessary sometimes.. But if you do it right, just the threat of the act can keep a child in line after awhile.

[Drageuth]

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 don't think I could ever actually hurt my son, or any kids I have in the future. But in my opinion, spanking isn't hurting so much as it is flesh-burning love.

Nah, in all seriousness, spanking is my last resort. I haven't spanked my son yet, but he's smart enough that when he does something wrong, I grab him by his shoulders, stare him straight in the eyes and tell him what he did wrong, and I don't let go until he acknowledges me. He usually has these sad eyes and a pout, and gets this rejected puppy dog look and walks away after he nods that he understands, then sits in the corner and plays quietly. Usually only takes a couple of those over a month (I only have him twice a week, so it takes a little bit of getting used to some of the "rules" in my house), and he's fine.

The only one that has given me consistent problems is having him climb on the coffee and end tables.

[Wyrm]

Yeeeah.. I learned a lot. If by any miracle I do manage to end up a Father one day (and I would love that) I know exactly what not to do.
Seriously, I have a very good idea of what to avoid.. Can't say I'd make a perfect parent, but I like to think I'd do a lot better than what my own did with me.

This.

So much this.

[Corey]

I actually have 2 like that.
The other one is above my left hip on my lower back, where they took a bone out to cover the hardware they used to hold my spine together.

Damn.
I have scars on my head that my hair covers from the multiple times I had my head busted open as a little baby. Like...3 or 4 times.
I also remember getting my appendix removed when I had NecrotitusAppendicitus or some shit. I was excited because I thought I'd get the cool appendix removal scar but instead I got these three pussy scars. I was robbed.

[Kermit Da Frog]

The only one that has given me consistent problems is having him climb on the coffee and end tables.

Aww he's going to break something. Like father, like son.

[Corey]

I don't think I could ever actually hurt my son, or any kids I have in the future. But in my opinion, spanking isn't hurting so much as it is flesh-burning love.

Nah, in all seriousness, spanking is my last resort. I haven't spanked my son yet, but he's smart enough that when he does something wrong, I grab him by his shoulders, stare him straight in the eyes and tell him what he did wrong, and I don't let go until he acknowledges me. He usually has these sad eyes and a pout, and gets this rejected puppy dog look and walks away after he nods that he understands, then sits in the corner and plays quietly. Usually only takes a couple of those over a month (I only have him twice a week, so it takes a little bit of getting used to some of the "rules" in my house), and he's fine.

The only one that has given me consistent problems is having him climb on the coffee and end tables.

All boys are like that. I was always climbing on shit. You know you did too.

[Krisan Thyme]

Also, SCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARs

Spoiler warning:

I have something like that, but one straight down my stomach - well not quite straight down unfortunately.. It curves around my bellybutton. Stupid surgery.

Lower back, right above your hip? If so, I've got the same thing.

Yea, my lower back. It's kinda crazy looking, one would think I were whipped silly at a glance of it.

[King]

Damn.
I have scars on my head that my hair covers from the multiple times I had my head busted open as a little baby. Like...3 or 4 times.
I also remember getting my appendix removed when I had NecrotitusAppendicitus or some shit. I was excited because I thought I'd get the cool appendix removal scar but instead I got these three pussy scars. I was robbed.

Scarring hangout.

Also

NecrotitusAppendicitus

Sounds like a Asterix villain name.

[Wyrm]

Damn.
I have scars on my head that my hair covers from the multiple times I had my head busted open as a little baby. Like...3 or 4 times.
I also remember getting my appendix removed when I had NecrotitusAppendicitus or some shit. I was excited because I thought I'd get the cool appendix removal scar but instead I got these three pussy scars. I was robbed.

Aside form the surgery scars, ive only got minor ones from fights and skateboarding incidents.
As you could probably tell from that pic, im a freckly bastard and im missing about a 3" patch on my right elbow/knee from sliding down the road.

Oh, and the rug burn scars from losing my virginity (shaddup kermit).
She was a wild one

[Kouen Hasuki]

Damn.
I have scars on my head that my hair covers from the multiple times I had my head busted open as a little baby. Like...3 or 4 times.
I also remember getting my appendix removed when I had NecrotitusAppendicitus or some shit. I was excited because I thought I'd get the cool appendix removal scar but instead I got these three pussy scars. I was robbed.

i got a scar from just bellow teh rib cage all the way down to where the pubes start (with staple scars i might add), going around my belly button and 2 smaller scars on eather side of my lower stomach... wanna trade?

[Kermit Da Frog]

Yea, my lower back. It's kinda crazy looking, one would think I were whipped silly at a glance of it.

Yep. Stretch marks. Most likely from slouching, or growing too fast.

[Krisan Thyme]

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'm pretty sure mine are too, since I can't explain it any other way.. But yea, it's weird.
And.. I'm pretty scar-ridden myself.

[Corey]

Scarring hangout.

Also

Sounds like a Asterix villain name.

Found it.

, the appendix becomes ischemic and then necrotic. As bacteria begin to leak out through the dying walls, pus forms within and around the appendix (suppuration). The end result of this cascade is appendiceal rupture (a 'burst appendix') causing peritonitis, which may lead to septicemia and eventually death.

I was a few hours from dying when I went in.

[Wyrm]

Yep. Stretch marks. Most likely from slouching, or growing too fast.

Ive got them as well.
I was a fat kid when i was younger

[Drageuth]

Aww he's going to break something. Like father, like son.

My coffee and end tables are pretty sturdy.
I'm more concerned with him falling off and cracking his head open, 'cause they can be slippery.

Damn.
I have scars on my head that my hair covers from the multiple times I had my head busted open as a little baby. Like...3 or 4 times.
I also remember getting my appendix removed when I had NecrotitusAppendicitus or some shit. I was excited because I thought I'd get the cool appendix removal scar but instead I got these three pussy scars. I was robbed.

I have a couple of scars on my forehead. They all kind of overlap, too. One was from an accident in PE in elementary school (motherfucker tripped me and I hit my head on a metal poll. I wasn't a popular kid in school), one was from when I was four years old, playing at a buddy's place and cracking my head on the edge of their fireplace... stone... surround... thing, and one from goofing around with my brother and somehow ending up smacking my head on a concrete floor. That one bled pretty good, too... those are all overlapping on my forehead. Then a couple more towards the back of my head, again from stupid childhood accidents (playing out in the snow at night, my brother throwing some action figure that weighed a fair bit up into the pitch black, and having the sharp point land squarely with the back of my head, for example. Or being dragged in a wagon behind a bike, the guy riding the bike taking a corner too sharply, and me scraping up my face on gravel).

The rest of mine are self induced.