Publically humiliate myself at The Happiest Place on Earth? Why not?

[Manetoys]

Wow! Someone needs to be hung naked off the Matterhorn with "horrible parent" written across their ass! :mad: the saddest part is, when this kid finally snaps and kills his parents and everyone else insight, they're just blame it on video games

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Wow! Someone needs to be hung naked off the Matterhorn with "horrible parent" written across their ass! :mad: the saddest part is, when this kid finally snaps and kills his parents and everyone else insight, they're just blame it on video games

Yeah, well the ARMY DOES use video games (first person shooter) to teach basic combat skills!!!!

heheheheheh

[felinefan]

Fast forward ten years from now; I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the much older kid snaps and reminds their parent about the "mistake" comment at The Happiest Place on Earth, followed by the kid beating the crap out of their parents.
For years I've been wanting to tell my family off on what they did to me, telling me I supposedly couldn't drive, live alone, or aspire to anything other than low-level jobs, just because some quack decided I had a "learning disability" instead of taking into account that I had recently gone overseas with my family, lived in another country (Australia) for six months, and since we went by ship both ways, I missed quite a bit of school. I did go to school for a few months in Oz, but not enough to really keep up. We came back to the U.S. and I had a hard time readjusting, and as a result they started doing a bunch of testing and then they decided to slap the label on me. Took me 35 years to find out otherwise. Funny how nobody thought about the fact that before the trip, I was smart, funny and creative--no learning problems there!

I've been checking out what I could've been, and where I'd likely be now if we hadn't gone on that trip and I hadn't been misdiagnosed. I just found out that meteorologists here in CA earn between $25,000 to $145,000 a year. Meteorology was one of my early interests, and if I'd been allowed to follow that, I would've been on my own long ago. Or a writer--I discovered my writing gift in 5th grade, who knows if I could've supported myself writing if I had started writing for publication and saved my money? Either way, I wouldn't be struggling like I am now. The only good thing about the way my life turned out is that it would make a great plot for a novel.

[Alyssa3467]

Along the same vein, I sometimes wonder where I'd be today if when I was growing up, my parents and classmates were like those of the kids featured in the 20/20 special that aired in April 2007 (with the accompanying article at http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3088298). I likely would not have joined the Navy, and I possibly would've been my high school graduating class's valedictorian like my guidance counselor and some of my teachers said I should've been if I "applied [myself]"; it's hard to when you're dealing with anxiety and depression. I don't know if I'd still have an interest in computers, or if I would've gone for something more stereotypically feminine. :p: Can't really blame my parents for how events wound up unfolding though.

[Ms. Matterhorn]

Fast forward ten years from now; I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the much older kid snaps and reminds their parent about the "mistake" comment at The Happiest Place on Earth, followed by the kid beating the crap out of their parents.

Just a few weeks ago a 10? year old kid took a gun and killed his dad and dad's friend after his 1000th spanking.

[mechurchlady]

This is so so so sad and I am praying for that dear boy. The hell he went through.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/133228

He is 8 years old and was spanked 1000 times according to the news. He just turned 9 years old and he used a rifle to kill his father and a man who was living with them. The boy was living with his father and stepmother, who were married in September, in a two-story house the father built in St. Johns, AZ before the killings. His mother lives in Mississippi and got custody apparently. The father had full legal custody.

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1513427
The boy kept a tally of how often he got spanked and was spanked 5 times in one day by his stepmother for not bringing home some papers from school.
The boy confessed but was not read his rights and did not know his rights. Sigh a legal mess and a kid is ruined by abusive parents.

[Disneyguy85]

Mecurchlady;

You are right, Words can hurt very much. People always say "Oh, sticks and stones" but coming from certain people like parents, words can be very powerful things, especially if they are cruel ones. :(

There are just some people in this world who should not be parents.

And then, there is the problem of people becoming parents too young, but that's another story...

[empty2]

Yeah that beats the mother I overhead yesterday finishing off her tirade with, "It's a wonder no one kidnaps you!" to her mortified daughter just outside the security tents. Lord knows it's not Christmas until your parent lays down a healthy dose of neurosis. Good luck with that self-esteem kid!

[felinefan]

A thousand spankings works out to about 3 a day for a year. What in tarnation did that kid do to get his butt whipped so often? At that rate it qualifies as abuse. I have a hard time believing a kid would be so hard to control that three spankings a day would be necessary. How many times was he scolded, apart from being spanked? Was there any time when his parents simply instructed him--"We don't do that in public", etc., instead of yelling and beating on him? I agree--some people should be psychoanalyzed, counseled, etc., before they're allowed to have kids.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Jeez I can only remember having to spank my kids once or twice, ever, after than just a "parent voice" was enough to make them behave in public.