Making your kid fear bathrooms is probably 'Mom of the Year: Miss Stupidity' material.

You forgot to add 4 or 5 likes in the headline subby.

or the opposite. sometimes exposure removes fear

/ not doctor.
// not a parent
/// not afraid of the dark
//// only afraid of death, pain and people murdering me (exposure to pain, news of nearby murders, and having known a few people who died created the phobias... so maybe exposure isn't so good)

Bathroom? She should have used the sex dungeon.

I'm so glad the smart people figured out that some traumas don't heal with time, and that those are the ones we should inflict on our children, because swats that won't even leave a mark are evil.

mwuahahahahahaha:/

or as W would say "mweh-heh".

Yeah, because putting a kid in time out is torture.

/buncha snowflake enablers

That poor little girl will just have to settle on being financially secure for the rest of her life as compensation.

/not bitter
//not at all

Well, according to her babbling in TFA she mentions that there are these huge windows and just doesn't turn the lights on. Even says "I just say in the dark" as in implying the threat of being actually left in the dark when I'm guessing a bit of light is streaming into that marble palace she likely has in her home.

So what? Kids are gigantic pussies today.

My friends dad would lock us in my friends bedroom with no lights on and come in and make monster noises right after watching 'Alien' or some other scary movie that my mom wouldnt allow me to watch.

And you know what? It taught me something.

How to kill my friends dad.

On a side note, if your job is to follow around a celebrity and clandestinely shoot photos as they do their grocery shopping.....do everyone a huge favor, and hang yourself or stab yourself in the face with a butter knife....THANKS!

s2s2s2: I'm so glad the smart people figured out that some traumas don't heal with time, and that those are the ones we should inflict on our children, because swats that won't even leave a mark are evil.

mwuahahahahahaha:/

or as W would say "mweh-heh".

Sure. Teach them that violence is a valid problem solving method. That always works out well.


Cheese doodles?

SnakeMan: Apeleutheros: Yeah, because putting a kid in time out is torture.

/buncha snowflake enablers

Didn't take long for the Fark Parenting Experts Who Don't Have Children to show up.

You're right, you've changed my mind. Time out IS torture.
You're also right about me not having kids, other than the one I have.

KatjaMouse: Well, according to her babbling in TFA she mentions that there are these huge windows and just doesn't turn the lights on. Even says "I just say in the dark" as in implying the threat of being actually left in the dark when I'm guessing a bit of light is streaming into that marble palace she likely has in her home.


This. For anyone who actually RTFA (what kinda weirdo would do that, right?) it's obviously not that big of a deal. She's rich. Her bathroom is probably nicer and larger than most of the first floor of your house... and nice bathrooms in rich people's homes almost always have lots of windows to let in natural light. She's not exactly locking the kid in a trunk, for fark's sake. Chill out, people.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go find on Google maps where there is a direct line of sight to Jessica's house.

Hershey Highway Patrol: You forgot to add 4 or 5 likes in the headline subby.

Totally, like, this.

When I was 2 - 3 years old, my dad was in college and my mom worked. They left me with my grandmother (dad's mom) during the day. She was a tough as nails 5', 90 lb. Mexican woman. When I did something wrong she would whip me. I am not talking figuratively. She had a small horsewhip that she would use on my legs. Not enough to bleed, but it would leave welts. What I think was worse was she would also lock me in a wall cabinet in the bathroom and she would tell me that the "Cucuy" (Mexican equivalent of the boogieman) was going to get me. The cabinet was pitch black and small enough to keep me sitting and bent over. This absolutely terrified me. I used to scream and scream. I think I would have preferred the whip to the cabinet.

When my mom found out just what was going on she took me to daycare. My dad was brought up the same way and did not see just how wrong it was. The year or so I spent with my grandmother kind of farked me up. I was terrified of the dark up until I was about 10 and probably gave me a few trust issues.

My grandmother is now 91 and I am 41, and while she has not come out and said it, I know that she regrets the way she treated her children and grandchildren. She cries sometimes when she talks about us as children and she also overcompensates now by trying to be sweet. I have forgiven her; it would be stupid to hold on to anger for that long. However, when I occasionally visit her, I am still scared shiatless of that damn cabinet in the bathroom.

LasersHurt: A child being put in time out in a bathroom - with a window - with the lights off is neither going to scare them away from bathrooms nor from the dark. You twits.

That.

Subby should have used the 'ironic' tag because the "do anything you like, you won't ever be disciplined" approach that the average Fark parent would use is even WORSE for kids.

Loose Spoons: When I was 2 - 3 years old, my dad was in college and my mom worked. They left me with my grandmother (dad's mom) during the day. She was a tough as nails 5', 90 lb. Mexican woman. When I did something wrong she would whip me. I am not talking figuratively. She had a small horsewhip that she would use on my legs. Not enough to bleed, but it would leave welts. What I think was worse was she would also lock me in a wall cabinet in the bathroom and she would tell me that the "Cucuy" (Mexican equivalent of the boogieman) was going to get me. The cabinet was pitch black and small enough to keep me sitting and bent over. This absolutely terrified me. I used to scream and scream. I think I would have preferred the whip to the cabinet.

When my mom found out just what was going on she took me to daycare. My dad was brought up the same way and did not see just how wrong it was. The year or so I spent with my grandmother kind of farked me up. I was terrified of the dark up until I was about 10 and probably gave me a few trust issues.

My grandmother is now 91 and I am 41, and while she has not come out and said it, I know that she regrets the way she treated her children and grandchildren. She cries sometimes when she talks about us as children and she also overcompensates now by trying to be sweet. I have forgiven her; it would be stupid to hold on to anger for that long. However, when I occasionally visit her, I am still scared shiatless of that damn cabinet in the bathroom.

Yikes! now that is some trauma-inducing sh*t!

Guaranteed lesbian. Who wouldn't be after snacking on that chest during their infant years?

"know why they're so odd? because they can afford to be."

but the thing is, it works! I do this with my kid (2 1/2 yrs old) when nothing else works. 30 -- 60 seconds in the closet and he's settled down and saying he's sorry. 5 mins later it's all forgotten about and he's playing normal of going to sleep, or eating. All bad behavior is gone. Many times just the threat of a T/O in the closet is all it takes. So quit raising your kids to be pussies or snowflakes for gods sake and Discipline them when they need it.

I'm sitting in a room right now with no lights on, so I'm really getting a kick......

/it's bright and sunny outside today
//love the sunshine

I spanked my kids a few times when all else fails but the most effective punishment I ever handed out was removing their bedroom door. I pulled the pins out of the hinges and put the door in the garage. The first offense cost you your bedroom door for a week. The second offense cost you a month, except that there never was a second offense. They hated the loss of privacy. Once I even overheard my oldest say to the youngest, "Don't do that. He'll take away your door for a week." I highly recommend it as a non-physical punishment.

Nah, the worst of the brat's problems is trying to learn how to speak a proper sentence without like-bombing.

StoPPeRmobile: Sure. Teach them that violence is a valid problem solving method. That always works out well.

Violence is how all problems are solved. You just get to choose on which battlefield to engage.

StoPPeRmobile: s2s2s2: I'm so glad the smart people figured out that some traumas don't heal with time, and that those are the ones we should inflict on our children, because swats that won't even leave a mark are evil.

mwuahahahahahaha:/

or as W would say "mweh-heh".

Sure. Teach them that violence is a valid problem solving method. That always works out well.

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Cheese doodles?

Violence has its uses

NoGods: I spanked my kids a few times when all else fails but the most effective punishment I ever handed out was removing their bedroom door. I pulled the pins out of the hinges and put the door in the garage. The first offense cost you your bedroom door for a week. The second offense cost you a month, except that there never was a second offense. They hated the loss of privacy. Once I even overheard my oldest say to the youngest, "Don't do that. He'll take away your door for a week." I highly recommend it as a non-physical punishment.

Awesome idea. Thank you!

Who the fark doesn't threaten to put their kid in a dark room when they're being an asshole???
This just proves Alba is normal.

FTFA: "Or like when I was a kid I used to get hot sauce in my mouth when I had a smart mouth or something like that"

Heh. Its actually spelled out that I can lose my foster parenting license for doing that.

Whar 400 posts debating spaking vs/ timeouts?

WHAR?!

I used dark-therapy all the time when babysitting my nieces. If they were getting in trouble elsewhere in the house I would shut off all the lights in the house except the room I was in. They never wandered out and hate the fact I was watching all the time. When they behaved I would turn the light back on.

Doesn't work now that they are old enough to reach the light switch, but I have other methods of making them behave. My favorite is making a big batch of pudding, dividing it into two bowls, and whenever they are a pain I take a scoop out of their bowl and put it into a third bowl. Whatever is left before bed is what they get to eat. The first couple times I did this auntie ended up with a big bowl of pudding while they got a couple bites a piece...and I made them watch me enjoy all that pudding. Now I hardly get any at all. It is hilarious to hear them wail over pudding though.

I think I have another couple years with this gig before I have to find another tortur...err punishment method.

hasty ambush: StoPPeRmobile: s2s2s2: I'm so glad the smart people figured out that some traumas don't heal with time, and that those are the ones we should inflict on our children, because swats that won't even leave a mark are evil.

mwuahahahahahaha:/

or as W would say "mweh-heh".

Sure. Teach them that violence is a valid problem solving method. That always works out well.

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Cheese doodles?

Violence has its uses

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We will kill you while you're sleeping on Christmas eve.

hailin: I used dark-therapy all the time when babysitting my nieces. If they were getting in trouble elsewhere in the house I would shut off all the lights in the house except the room I was in. They never wandered out and hate the fact I was watching all the time. When they behaved I would turn the light back on.

Doesn't work now that they are old enough to reach the light switch, but I have other methods of making them behave. My favorite is making a big batch of pudding, dividing it into two bowls, and whenever they are a pain I take a scoop out of their bowl and put it into a third bowl. Whatever is left before bed is what they get to eat. The first couple times I did this auntie ended up with a big bowl of pudding while they got a couple bites a piece...and I made them watch me enjoy all that pudding. Now I hardly get any at all. It is hilarious to hear them wail over pudding though.

I think I have another couple years with this gig before I have to find another tortur...err punishment method.

MIght I suggest (Requires help:)

Tie them up and put a sandbag over their head and lay them n the ground. Take the spare from the car then pull car up close to them. Have assistant rev engine while you slowly roll spare tie up against their head, rocking it back and forth slowly to match reving of engine.

Or if you don't have assistant take away all their technology-no Internet , cell phone etc and watch them go through withdrawals

SnakeMan, Snowflake is a term that means spoiled, over-protected brat, to say the least. I have a kid that is no snowflake, but she's damn sure precious. Apeleutheros didn't call his/her kid a precious snowflake.

Jessica Alba isn't that attractive to me. Never was. Salma Hayek has her beat.

hasty ambush:

Violence has its uses


Did you just turn a Jessica Alba story into a Political thread?
What is wring with you?
You're dad whip you with a flagpole or something?

s2s2s2: StoPPeRmobile: Sure. Teach them that violence is a valid problem solving method. That always works out well.

Violence is how all problems are solved. You just get to choose on which battlefield to engage.

Yep it solved their problems.

Carthaginian


Greek


Roman


Egyptian


Aztec


Mayan

StoPPeRmobile: Yep it solved their problems.

Yes. It also solved the problem they were.

StoPPeRmobile: s2s2s2: StoPPeRmobile: Sure. Teach them that violence is a valid problem solving method. That always works out well.

Violence is how all problems are solved. You just get to choose on which battlefield to engage.

Yep it solved their problems.

Carthaginian
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Greek
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Roman
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Egyptian
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Aztec
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Mayan
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well... all their problems were solved, it just may be that the solution was not very desirable