It was very brave of you to share your story and I know it helped others. Thanks to therapy, I know we ought to be proud of ourselves for looking in the mirror and seeing a need to change and see commenters like giabread as wounded individuals lacking empathy. Hoping that individual gets into therapy and stops taking…

I dismissed your other comment. I am a child abuse victim who has broken the cycle of abuse and my child is thriving. I am sorry you are broken down to believe humans aren’t capable of overcoming and becoming better people. I would recommend a good therapist for that.

Thank you for pointing out that you CAN reach a disgusting low as a parent and climb back. Last year, I reached my disgusting low as a parent when I was yelling at my 3 year old son for his behavior, the same earth-shattering yell my father would use on me for merely existing in his household as a child. I didn’t come…

I’m glad you were able to admit what you were doing and change your ways—that’s the mark of a good parent. We can argue about whether that constitutes abuse or not til the cow comes home, but research has proven that at the very least, it doesn’t do any good.

I hear ya. Im a big believer in big timeouts and continues communication so my boy knows why he’s in trouble. One time he scratched my face really hard and i felt my hands go for my kids throat and stopped myself. Just couldnt stop thinking about how im furious with a 3 year old who doesnt know any better. Shit shakes…

I’m glad you experienced that guilt because it shows growth and maturity. I had a similar upbringing and, although I don’t want kids, would have never hit mine if I did have them.

he’s from Wisc. he’s seen worse

There is never a reason to hit a child. Never. Violence isn’t discipline. Discipline is practice, is setting up a routine, is showing up, is doing the work, is NOT hitting, no matter how angry you are.

The most unsettling part is how quickly he turns to assisting her. Picking up her purse, attempting to put her glasses back on. It’s that sort of, “I’m so nice, why do you make me do this?” behavior. The power dynamic of abusers is absolutely chilling.

You were a senior in high school when Columbine went down and your current institution is a college, are you a prof or on the 18 year college plan? :)

Completely agreed, without caveat.

My institution missed out on a chance to participate in this, as we’re on spring break this week (and we’re a college, so our “walkout” participation would’ve been markedly different than a public K-12 school), but any educator who seeks to restrain their students from exercising…

Curt Schilling- Dilfer is who Trumpkins aspire to be Schilling is who they really are

The dodger did win.

In that moment, Altuve was thinking to himself, “I wish the Dodgers had won.”

Well when I’m making a physical comparison between 2 people it seems inherent to the process to comment on their physical appearance. He can be pudgy all he wants, I’m not suggesting he needs to change himself for me or anyone else. How should I have said that he looks like Amy Schumer, but fat?

A lot of them should kill themselves. I just can’t anymore with this delusional destructive bullshit.

This guy looks like a pudgy, male Amy Schumer.

I can’t think of a comparable example of a big political get-together that doesn’t involve a murderer’s row of conservatives. They’ve got kooks, conspiracy theorists, fascists, crypto-fascists, neo-fascists, Rear Admirals, queer Admirals, etc. and it’s treated as a normal thing that Republicans do. Trump spoke at a…

Laura, the girl who lost her friends when she came out as “conservative”, shows how the internet has really been instrumental in radicalizing people and bringing horrible people together.

They believe the mountains on the edge of the flat Earth are guarded by the military.