Pro-tip: no one is honest about parenting on the internet. I'm sure you can see why.

I'm not going to jump your shit. But the only thing hitting a child teaches them is to one day....hit a child.

I feel like you're not a real person.

I really thought this was a troll. I almost didn't comment to him/her because I was certain they were a troll because how could they seriously think that's ok.

So, that sounds pretty terrible. At what age is shaken baby syndrome no longer a risk? And somehow I don't think hitting a child is the best way to teach a child not to hit.

Congrats, you're an abusive parent. Showing your kid not to be violent by being violent? Excellent strategy. That poor baby boy, why do you think he hits, when you show him that hitting is appropriate? And shaking? How old is he? I've seen one too many kids with fucked up vision from being shaken. But I don't think…

Everytime I hear stories like this it only furthers my belief that the rules for training young children how to behave properly are the same as training a dog.

Oh they were the worst, those year 7 b.c. kids. Always tearing through town on their donkey carts blasting that damned loud Lyre music.

There is no performance if there is no audience

Thank you. I am so tired of the constant refrain that "today's kids are the most spoiled ever." (And the constant trotting out of that dreadful New Yorker article to support it.) From Hesiod to Bronte to Roald Dahl, people have been complaining about spoiled children and how they will ruin the future of the planet…

18 months to age 4 can be like pure hell - but your method of withdrawing attention is ideal! It's not always the easiest method, but its pretty damn effective if you can be consistent.

I was just talking about discipline with our pediatrician.

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint".

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

"Male" is not a species...

I had that same experience on dexamethasone. "ALL I WANT TO DO IS EAT IT OR FUCK IT!!!"

I'm sorry, does she not know that some women are insatiable hornballs just as much as men are?

Proof positive that cultural insensitivity is not just for white people. Anyone can be a fucking idiot, regardless of race.

So, to celebrate what is, ostensibly, the happiest day of your life, you choose to re-create the most harrowing, painful final moment of someone else's. I don't... Hmm.