I would rather have been hit than have been subject to the barrage of passive aggressive emotional manipulation that was my mother's parenting.

It's great because it also has no long term effects!

Like when Cartman's mom tried to get an abortion in her 40th trimester.

The only thing spanking teaches is how to lie effectively.

I know— and some of us did NOT turn out ok. It's like, I'm not a murderer either, but I've always had a really hard time expressing negative emotions, especially anger, because I would get in trouble, often a spanking, just for being angry. I didn't learn better ways to deal with anger. I learned not to let anyone…

yeah, this was so on fucking point. yay for Louis C K's continued brilliance.

My parents were very similar, and frankly I don't attribute my good behaviour as an adult or teen with their form of discipline - It's because that's my personality. My little sister was raised the exact same way only a couple years after me and is the complete opposite, becuase even as an adult she's spoiled and…

I know. The logic is "we were raised that way and we turned out fine" is so flawed. Humans are resilient and usually we turn out "fine" DESPITE the ways our parents screwed up.

Yes you really have to think, "Is this a punishment I can follow through on? Is it going to be worse on me than them?"

My ex was terrible at making huge threats of (largely ineffective) punishments that I'd have to enforce as the stay at home parent. Ugh. You gotta come up with your go-to things that are a bummer for…

My boyfriend told me a story about how he first learned about the fragility of life. He was visiting Cabrillo National Monument on a class trip, and he learned that Cabrillo (the man) fell down, broke his leg, and died from complications a few days later. He realized then that it was possible for anyone to die at…

That actually pissed me off reading it because I feel like my mother wrote it. Lol. If I had a quarter for every unnecessary no I got from her growing up, I wouldn't be working today.

When we were shitty little kids, my mom sat us down and enthusiastically said, "Let's make a list of all your favorite things! What are your most favorite toys and your favorite things to do?" After we excitedly told her these things and she wrote them down, she put the list on the fridge and said, "Now, next time you…

I take the Dr. Cox approach to rearing kids: children are like dogs that gradually learn how to speak. Until they're a certain age, you use a lot of the same techniques you use on dogs (repetition, patience, reinforcement of good behavior, redirection/ignoring bad behavior, and CONSISTENCY.) You don't need to beat…

Ugh, you don't need to hit your kid to get them to behave. Just do what my mother did - passive-aggressive phrasing, gaslighting, and a heady blend of guilt and shame. It's that easy!

You jest, but I was born the most neurotic kid ever and TOTALLY had that dread without anyone even putting it there. I remember going on an Easter egg hunt that was organized by some church or something. I was pre-school age and very literal (still am actually, it causes problems), and thought that the egg hunt had to…

Yes. Basically the way I've tried to look at it is this: My daughter is the world's worst troll. If I get angry, then she wins!

Children are smarter than you think. If you don't think you can sit them down, look at them in the eye, and talk to them, then you're the idiot. Even at two you can talk to them. I remember Oprah giving this tip a very long time ago on her show: "Lower your tone of voice when you reprimend them. Don't raise your…

Fill them with existential dread that their lives are meaningless when they misbehave?