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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an anger mgmt problem I inherited from my abusive father. I try SO hard to not let it get the best of me w my own kids but sometimes I do fail: I yell, I lecture too much, I have on occasion called my kids brats (I have not called them anything worse than that and I have never cursed at them but even that I feel is bad enough. I feel awful about myself for ages afterward.) thank goodness I’ve never hit them or physically abused them in any way. I would never forgive myself if I did. Whenever I do mess up and say something mean or yell at them, I always apologize for it after and tell them that I love them.

Still, it’s a very hard cycle to break completely. I have to put myself in time out frequently when I get upset or I will say/do something I regret. [/quote]

What kind of mean things do you say? Please stay on top of this. The cycle of verbally abusive & then apologizing can psychologically mess up a kid.  [/quote]

Or the kid can learn that even their parents can f--k up and are not perfect and that even adults can make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

There are no perfect parents--spanking or not.

to answer OP--I grew up in a household where one parent believed in spanking and the other did not. I try to emulate the one who did not.[/quote]

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