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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I endured this with my DS.  He was always late in the morning, no matter how many discussions we had.  I told DS he needed to walk to the bus because he wasn't being respectful of my time.  He continued being late so he didn't have enough time to walk and if he missed the bus, I would have to drive him to school instead.  Regardless of many discussions, this continued.  If your DH has to deal with that on a daily basis, I can see why he's upset.  It's likely he feels that he wasn't being unkind and that your daughter created the situation with her behavior and then was scolding him about being not nice.  Your DH overreacted, but making her walk wasn't abusive, and was likely done out of built up frustration.  My younger DD has to wake up at the same time and manages to get ready on time.  There have been days where she's disorganized and forgets things, but I don't get upset about that because I know I sometimes forget things.  My DS does it daily, so I'm not as accommodating.  Your DD needs to apologize and also Coke up with a plan for how she will avoid being late going forward.  Otherwise, it will build unnecessary animosity between your DH and your DD.  And the pp who said it reminds her of when her dad slapped her is equating two very different things.  I would never slap my kids, or anyone for that matter.  [/quote]

That’s different because you had a son who was disrespecting you a female. OP’s case is about a daughter disrespecting her father a male. As everyone on here agrees that is fine and the father is abusive for pushing back.[/quote]

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