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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't bother with the talk and I wouldn't leave my kids alone. Sorry.

I love my dad and he wasn't as bad as yours, but with age, it's not like he's gotten more patient or understands normal growth and development of children better than he did 40 yrs ago.

It may not be physical but even words have an effect. My dad SCREAMED at my 2 year old to turn the dining room light back on when he turned it off. He had just learned to push the stool over to reach it and was learning cause/effect.

Instead of being normal my father LOST IT and I was sitting right there. To see my child flinch and cry like I must have all those years ago was like "nope". Dad had a hissy and had a big song and dance about leaving early for the airport and "I was going to give you a lot of money but now I'd rather spend it on a ticket home" and I told him to do what he needed to do but that he couldn't treat my kids like that. He later got over it and told me his blood sugar had been low (it's never low so that's bs) so he was sorry he was cranky. So just because the alcohol is out of the picture, it doesn't mean the excuses are.[/quote]

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