RE: Stop Hitting Your Kids

[mistowed]

My brother used to hit me, and before I had the chance to hit back, he would cry . Not slightly, but with an intense scream.

• My mom would come running, and I was thrown over the knee, for a good spanking.

It turned me into a conflict shy child, and I ended up getting bullied a lot, because I always thought that people would use violence against me, if I talked back at them.

So I can deffinitely appreciate this post.

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[anarcho-andrei]

That is the absolute worst case scenario.

• "Don't hit your brother!"
• "That spanking should teach you not to hit him!"
• "If you hit him again, you're getting spanked again!"

All the while you haven't initiated violence ever, further skewing how you understand how to defend yourself and stand up for yourself. It's cancerous.

[mistowed]

I was bullied up until I was 25 or 26 or something.

• Thanks mom. <.<