If your kid disrespects you…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD gave me the middle finger once, and i told her the next time she did it I'd cut her finger off. Never happened again. F*ck around and find out.

+1000

My kid would not dare. I’m a pretty easy going parent, not authoritarian at all, but I have zero tolerance for disrespect like that.

Yeah I am not at all an authoritarian parent and pretty sure many would call me a pushover. That being said, it would never occur to my kid to cuss me out, give me the finger, or anything similar. Just wouldn’t happen and at 18 and 15, I am pretty confident about that. I sometimes hear about stuff like this from other parents and wonder how I got so lucky. I really wouldn’t know how to handle.

I’m sure you’re do something right. It’s nice that you’re humble about it though.

To the poster who would cut the finger, how long do you think you can keep up with threats?

[Anonymous]

I'd slap them, immediately. They won't be doing that again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd slap them, immediately. They won't be doing that again.

Violence nice

[Anonymous]

I would come down like a ton of bricks, but I would calm down first. I would assign an essay to be written about respect and there would be no phone or screens or outings for two weeks. And extra chores.

Kids get overwhelmed and are impulsive, but that does not fly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your pre-teen or teen insults you and/ or shows the middle finger out of disagreement, how do you proceed? Do you calmly yet firmly give you consequences or get out of yourself and scream *^%#? Does your spouse team up with you on the kind of consequences or disagrees in your kid’s presence?

He would be handed a shovel and told to start digging a hole 6 feet deep in a rectangle shape.