I was at a small evening with some of my sister's friends yesterday, and they told us stories that frankly scared me...
Apparently their families believed in "love thou mother...cause otherwise she'll switch 'ya" XO
As the friends told it, they DID love their mother.... they also nearly killed each other several times through stupid pranks, got switched repeatedly, got expelled a lot and I'm honestly surprised they ever survived as far...
Luckily, they've said they don't intend to have the same attitude with their kids.
Ouch!
yeah... I was happy my dad's attitude to parenting was "if they've disappointed you, sit them down and stare at them for 5 minutes, and say "I'm disappointed" "
My god, was that effective XO.
Glad to know that it worked!