One thing that really gets me about todayâs society is how emotional/psychological child abuse is normalized and even celebrated.
Iâve noticed a phenomenon of parents getting together and talking about how theyâre such a Mean Mom or Mean Dad and how theyâre raising their children to be respectful. They talk about destroying their childrenâs possessions, isolating them, humiliating them, and/or publicly shaming them.
And when these people hear about, say, a parent smashing a kidâs phone for not cleaning their room or burning their possessions or filming a punishment or embarrassing moment and putting it up on social media, they commend the parents for âteaching the kids a lessonâ.
Why the fuck do we, as a society, think this is okay?
It doesnât teach kids valuable life lessons, it teaches them to be scared of repercussions. Itâs bullying and child abuse and for some reason, people think thatâs commendable.
Whenever I hear people saying âhaha I bet that 14 year old learned a lessonâ, it instantly makes me suspicious of them. I will instantly think of you as either a potential child abuser or a child abuse enabler.
As a survivor of psychological abuse, people dismissing this behavior as âharmless life lessonsâ makes me wonder if it really was abuse. If I deserved it. If I really deserved to have my petâs life threatened because I was a liar.
Itâs not cute. Itâs not âgood parentingâ. Itâs intimidating, shaming, and traumatizing your child into compliance.
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