Sorry to delete your post. It was a bit too mean-spirited for me.
It seems that you don't understand the difference between "discipline" and "referring to something as 'evil.'" We discpline our kids, we rein them, we try to modify socially inapprorpriate behaviors, we punish them for wrongdoings. Etc., etc.
We even get pissed off sometimes.
What you're missing, Spencer, is the fact that I was not using hyperbole. My father is decent guy at heart, but he is mentally ill. He decides that people are evil, and are against him. And then he begins to act in "defense" against this perceived evil.
This is what separated him from his mother and brother for 15 years... when he decided they were evil. By evil, he means "do not deserve oxygen." That is a quote... and one of the significantly less obscene ones, at that.
Anyway: My point was this... watching my kids act the same way as I did, and my reacting to them rationally, has allowed me to view my own childhood in an evolving light.
These rational reactions very, very often include real discipline.
I have to say, Spencer... you jump to Big Conclusions based on a single blog entry. Feel free to email me your home address, and I'll send you some name-deleted copies of various police reports and letters from my Dad that illustrate the point.
On second thought, don't.
Please don't post here again. Thanks.
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Ah! Now I understand you. Yay, clarity!
You're one of those professional crackheads who say "No matter what, you are screwing up as a parent, and you need help!" The fact that you somehow think I'm repeating the mistakes of a BPD victim (and that you could even KNOW this if it were true!), combined with your ongoing posting where you've politely asked to leave, are so very, very telling.
It almost makes me want to repost your original reponses, because they're not mean-spirited after all... they're merely the agenda-driven rantings of a man who needs others to fail.
Kind of sad and pathetic. And icky.
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