Whats the worst thing you e overheard a person saying to their child?
Well, I guess I have very low parenting standards because I think “for god’s sake Kevin, I should have swallowed you” is kind of funny. Not hilarious but sounds like a snide comment any angry, frustrated parent would say. It’s not quite the same as saying “I hate you and I wish I had never conceived you”. Unless something like that is said to the child every day and with different, aggressive words, I doubt that little angry phrase could cause much damage. I’m not one to overhear conversations from strangers with their kids but one time I saw a very exasperated mom storm out of the principal’s office while I waited, muttering that her life has been nothing but misery since her daughter came along. I bet that woman had powerful reasons to say that and deep down she was just letting out some steam, but her daughter was walking right behind her. Whatever problem the young girl could have caused, and I know teenagers bring terrible crap sometimes, that was not a constructive comment. My fe
My Mother has told my sister she would never make it on her own, harshly saying, “I’d like to see you try.” This was when my sister was in her early twenties; she’s 30 now, and meekly did not try to make it on her own. She still lives at home, despite my trying to encourage her to do something in life. To an actual CHILD, well, I’ve often heard the Dad I work for explain that he was giving treats to the children because they were bad. For example, he once said in front of the two-year-old, when explaining why he gave her cookies and candy for breakfast, “She was yelling at me all morning.” Of course, now the child knows that yelling at Daddy is the best possible thing to do. Another time, I heard a woman at the zoo telling her children to yell at the elephants. She said, “Get up, you lazy elephants! Say it, kids! Say, ‘Get up, you lazy elephants.'” These elephants had been kidnapped from Africa and imprisoned in an unsuitable enclosure to be gawked at by the public, and she was encoura
