Moron, beat me up means a smack. My father never hitme with closed fist, if that's what you mean. I object to any violence against children. Any. I never gave anyone the authority to hit me, and I don't tolerate that.
Why should one respect parents because they brought one to the World? All they did was fuck, something which is pleasurable for them but not for the child. Going by your logic, that one should respect one's parents because they gave one their DNA, then we should treat amoebas and bacteria as gods, since they are ultimately the origin of our DNA, the first life form that all other life forms - including Humans - evolved from. That is, if you are basing your argument that respect is imposed purely from a biological imperative. See how retarded you sound? And as for the argument that a child or adolescent should respect his parents because they take care of his bills, the parents had the child out of their own volition, knowing that the child would be unable to support himself for several years after birth, so the parents taking care of the child's bills is an obligation and not a favor that the child must somehow repay the parents. You are one stupid fuck, "Parker". I really think you should stop arguing with me, because the more you do the more of an imbecile you look.
Yes, authoritarian power. According to you, it is fair that the child should wash the parents' dishes and clean the gardens of the house. This despite the fact that the garden is something that the child does not care about, and was never consulted about it's creation, and for which, if the child had been consulted, he would most likely disapprove of. All of your arguments are sophomoric at best. The reasons that you give for why children should have all these obligations towards their parents and respect for them are either idiotic and illogical, or "just so". Why? Because you say so. That's all. You speak on an imperative tone, as if you were the owner of the truth, and you give no reasons for why you believe something besides that you think things should work like that. How can I argue with such a moron?
I never had an abusive father or dysfunctional family. Don't pretend to know me or my family because you don't. My father doesen't drink, or abuse drugs, and he never beat me when I was a child in the way a man would beat another in a fight.
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Uhhh, You said "beat me up", now you clarify that as a "smack". When ever someone says "Beat Me Up", nobody thinks of a smack...if one smacks you, then you say that. Everybody understands a "whippin'" or a "beating" by a parent, those are universal American terms and typically the one gets it from a open hand, a belt or a "switch" ( a light but strong branch of tree, my mother's favorite were peach switches or dogwood switches)
You ask why should a child respect his parents, and disagree with my answers, then tell me, do you respect your parents, and why do or don't you?
As I said, which you avoided, Chores instill discipline, and also help keep the family unit together by providing children with a sense of helping out or a sense of duty. Some children look forward to doing chores, others do not. Also. If one isn't required to keep his or her room clean, chances are as a adult, they will not keep their rooms clean. For instance, I was slacker or so I thought with my room as a kid, but when I went to college, I found out that my parents requirement of me putting things in their places and keeping things cleaned helped me out, especially with the ladies, but I noticed some of my roommates didn't get that instilled in them at home. Often they were dirty and messy. Now I don't mind doing dishes, cleaning up the yard or mowing the lawn, things I dreaded as a kid, but I realize that keeping the lawn tidy and cut, having clean dishes is a hallmark of cleaniliness, and when I help my father, the neighbors stop and marvel at how kept the lawn is, and how good his shrubs look.
Now, your starting to sound like a kid, calling names, and loosing your cool, do you need a time out? I have no argument with you, you are the one who seems argumentative about your position. Like something deep down inside you was rattle...going back to the golf club incident got to you.
You talking about hitting your father with a golf club, had i done that I would have been put out of the house. And it seems, that you weren't raised in way to instill a sense of respect for your parents. The crying game of "I wasn't ask to be born" ... Those who use that tend be very angry people inside for some odd reason, I heard that from certain kids alot in H.S. I say kill ones self if they feel so strongly of not asking to be born. And just because one doesn't drink, abuse drugs, doesn't mean a family cannot be abusive, I neither said those things, you included them.
And by the way, I'm not "owner" of the truth, I do seek it out, though. You disagree with corporal punishment, then fine. What do or would you use? But time outs don't work as well, especially banishing one to one's room where they have everything they want there. And do you view children on the same level as adults? And Why?
Ultimately, what I have taken from the comments here and my experiences home and friends, being a parent comes down to loving the child, protecting the child, showing the child the correct way to do things, instilling a sense of self-respect and humbleness in the child and yes, disciplining the child. But at no time are you as a parent that child's "best buddies", like Timone and Puumba
