People who grew up with STRICT PARENTS, What was the Craziest Rule or Punishment? - Reddit Podcast 

There’s a difference between punishment and straight up torture. It’s true what they say about how every child deserves parents but not all parents deserve a child.

These are NOT punishments....these are examples of ABUSE.

The more I hear these stories, the more grateful I am my parents are sane

The thing these parents don’t understand is that if you treat your kids awful, they’re going to move out as fast as possible. They’re going to stop contact with you. You’re going to die alone. And your kids will be happy.

What parents like this thought they were teaching you. -Discipline -listening to authority -school success. What they ACTUALLY taught you. -defusing an angry parent -lying on the spot -listening for footsteps -being sneaky -Outsmarting those around you -hiding

Most of these are not 'strict parents', they're straight up child abuse. 'And some of it, like the whooppings, was practically the only acceptable form of discipline for even those of us whose parents were sensible people. And they wonder why we're all screwed up and bitter with the older generations. Shouldn't having a "broom handle broken across your back" lead you to think you DON'T want to do that to your future kids? Nope, denial is the way to go.

These are borderline child abuse

Ah. Memories. Bad memories. My mother was like the mother where she accused her child of fooling around with the friend’s father. Yes, I was accused just like that but not with friends’ fathers, with HER husbands. My stepfathers. Yes, both of them. One of whom, I must add, was my abuser AND SHE KNEW IT! She accused me of trying to sleep with him AFTER learning he had inappropriately touched me. Still dealing with the mental issues that goes with that. Yes, parents can truly be that crazy.

The story of the 4-year-old overusing the word "dumb" because they could spell it was such a cute and refreshing break from the mostly straight up abusive other stories.

My second step father was a power tripping navy vet that would fly off the handle on a dime. The summer my brother turned 16 he worked for my step dad all summer doing general construction and bought a sporty little Isuzu with a bad transmission. He spent the money to have it fixed up only for our step dad to decided we weren't given him enough 'respect' and for him to take the car and _my_ second car and sold them while we were both at work. Sadly the cars were in our mothers name still so he got away with it. By the end of the summer though my little brother managed to turn around and save enough money for the down payment for a little ford focus, but this time I co-signed the loan. When he found out about it our step father blew a gasket and kicked us both out that night. I was in my mid 20s at the time and technically living with them, but I was also a truck driver and mostly was living out of my truck. My little brother basically lived the the truck with my for a week before I could get us a mobile home to rent. Fun bit of revenge at the end though; our first step father was a military vet but died years ago. Our mother was collecting a small survivors benefit for her and my two other siblings. I found that our 2nd step father was basically just spending that money even though my brother was living with my. I reported our 2nd step dad and he got in some hot water for it and he stopped getting that money.

Yall these arent punishments, they are just abuse.

Not enough of these stories end with "...and then I beat my parent senseless when I grew up". Violence isn't the answer except with someone who believes it is. One of my best friends was regularly threatened at gun point by his stepdad because he had a short man's complex and couldn't handle the fact my friend was bigger than him, even though my friend is basically a big teddy bear. When my friend was no longer under his thumb I had planned many unpleasant things for his stepdad but the waste of space finally pointed the gun at the right person and beat me to it.

My abusive dad had a table rule of "don't drop anything". And i mean anything - not just fork or cups, not even drops of soup or a beard crumble. He said "my daughters are ladies and ladies don't eat like pigs". Dropping a cup was considered a horrible crime. He would yell at me and call me names for that. Since we never ate at a restourants, i didn't realise how stiff and "phoney" the way i ate looked. Sometimes i can't help it and the habbit gets out so people think i'm pretentions and "act a princess". You know, like those people who act as if they dine with a queen when they are at McDonald's. One of the things - i ate in a manner where my mouth would never need to be wipped with a napkin. I didn't understand why people had napkins on a table. I was over 20 when i realised how weird it is because my friend asked me for a napkin and i had none because i never needed them and had no habbit of buying them or even thinking about them. I can also chew in a way that i make no sound even if i eat crunchy stuff.

One day, my brother and I were cleaning his room and I asked him where his foam football goes. He told me to figure it out myself and refused to tell me. We went back and forth for a while until his arsehole of a "father" overheard us arguing and thought I was in the wrong, so without saying anything, he came into the room and kicked me really hard into my brother's toy box full of plastic toys. I had bruises for a week but the mental scar lasted years. I am living with my mother and I haven't seen my brother's father in years. my brother is living with him although my mother is fighting in court for my brother. Living with his father really took a toll on his mental health and he is being fed lies. I just hope he gets away from that psychopath soon.

When my older brother got snippy with my mom growing up, she one time threw him into a cold shower for a few seconds, to "cool his temper" forever after when one of us had a temper tantrum, she would ask if we needed to cool off, and that was enough to silence the goblins.

Honestly I believed these aren't strict parents they're abusive parents who shouldn't be allowed to have kids and should have cps call on them. Especially the ones who beat their kids or burn their stuff. Destroying your children stuff isn't right

Man, as rough as I had it as a kid, things like this make me feel grateful for just normal not great parents rather than the monsters some people got.

My grandparents were teachers and logically had a lot of teacher friends, one of them, a principal, would torture their kids with math equations…they had to solve 500 math equations before opening gifts on Christmas, logically taking till the early morning hours to get it done. At the beach, they had to solve 100 to go swimming, 70 for fries and ketchup, 50 equations for a can of soda and so on…if there is ever a serial killer that uses math equations to make their victims suffer, it’ll be these kids.

My step dad was a horror story of a person. He would regularly abuse my older brother and I because of beef he had with our dad from when they were in high school. We would get strict curfews and then grounded for one week for every minute we were late. He took away all my shoes and made me walk to school. I spent 3 months locked in a basement because I criticized his ability to hold a job (he had the free time to make sure I didn't get out). The cherry on top was when he broke my jaw and then made me suck his dick. I didn't talk to anyone in my family for years because of what they allowed to happen to me.

The one about burning literally all possessions is crazy. Like, what did they wear after that? Do they just have no photos of them as kids? I can’t even imagine, I would definitely run away if that happened to me.

"Congratulations! You just won our game: *Who's Going to a Retirement Home?* "

My parents are quite strict and the worst punishment I have ever experienced is getting locked in the garden during a thunderstorm in the winter because my little brother was repeatedly annoying me and I shouted at him to make him stop. Because he was the favorite (and still is) I got chucked outside, and it was the middle of winter and at night, meaning the water was ice cold.

My parents were never super strict, but they expected a lot from me when it came to school work, especially my dad. When I was 13, I got a couple bad grades (not extremely bad, just below the line to pass) right before the end of term. This resulted in me getting the lowest passing grade on my half-year report card. So, in other words, it was not a bad grade, but it wasn't very good either. My parents reacted as if I were failing my entire school career and decided that for the remaining 5 months of school that year I would have to study 4 hours every afternoon. 4 hours times 6 days a week (we had school on Saturday, too) means 24 hours of individual studying, added to 30 or so school periods, every week. That's a lot for a middle schooler. Luckily after a couple weeks I was able to convince them to reduce the study time to 3 hours per day, but I still spent basically all my afternoons on school books.

Every time I hear the descriptions of something being 'satanic' in this and it's a perfectly normal thing I get so mad, I'm a Christian have been my whole life of my own choice and it kills me every time I see this. People using my faith to justify being assholes destroys me.

"Every kid deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a kid." - some random YT comment i remembered that i didnt make lol

A lot of these things are just plain-old abusive and torture. All kids deserve parents, but not all parents deserve kids.

When I was in foster care recently my 3rd placement banned every single book I had. They banned my D&D books because they were Christians and they didn't like how it had things that resembled demons and dark arts, plus some of the premade characters had tragic backstories, which they didn't like. They banned my SCP Handbook because it included words that I wasn't allowed to say (if you have the SCP Handbook then you know the second section includes a lot of profanity). These were the only books I had, and were even interested in reading They said they would make it up to by taking me Barns & Nobles, which they did, but for some reason any books I got from there didn't have to be pre-approved like the ones I came with, the only limit on what books I could buy was that if it in any ways was related to my original books, I couldn't get them. Foster care sucks.

These stories are just vile. I know everyone deals with trauma in their own way, and sometimes it's best to just let things go and stop dwelling on the past so you can freely enjoy your future, but I imagine just how incredible it is for these kids once they become free and independent adults (despite the financial troubles). Imagine the absolute power high one would get as an adult, looking an abusive parent dead in the eye and saying something along the lines of "I don't respect you, I don't love you, and I am not yours anymore." before cutting contact. Fantasies aside, if you were legitimately abused as a child, you don't owe your parents anything. Not care, not love, not forgiveness, not even acknowledgement. If a toxic parent only makes you miserable, or you have to make continuous excuses to justify their choices as a grown adult, it'll be better for you to just be free. Is it really worth it to stick around, hoping they'll change and give you the mother/father you deserve when they just choose stay in their ways?

I have done the calling the cops on someones car once. Good reason. My husband (fiancee at the time) was 4 hours late from getting home from work and wasnt answering his phone. I was worried he got in an accident or something. Cops found him fixing an elderly ladies car........

When I was about 14 or 15 I invited my friends over and was just enjoying some girl time and offered to cook some fried chicken and I accidentally threw the chicken into the oil and some of the oil got into my face and it got burned. When my mom saw instead of trying to help the burn or do anything about it she started yelling about “how I didn’t clean the house and that I deserved the burn and that just because my friends are here doesn’t mean she wouldn’t humiliate me” then she made me go and clean the bathroom and wash dishes and yelled that “I would slap you but because your face is burnt I wouldn’t do your very lucky.” After that day I’ve been on guard with my whole family cause nobody protected me. Plus when I was 17 almost 18 my mom argued with me about paying 400 dollars rent when I was only working at Wendy’s as a part timer. A couple days after the argument I got into a bike accident and broke my leg, during that time I called my mom and got yelled at since I didn’t know where I was, then when I got to the hospital by the ambulance, they called her and told her where I was, she basically came in yelling about “how I was a terrible daughter and broke my leg on accident because I didn’t want to pay rent.” I was so tired in the hospital that I didnt even want to argue with her. During the time I was in the hospital and recovering my mom stole 2000 dollars from my bank account, and I asked her why my money was missing and she told me she need it for the insurance. Which I knew was a lie because we had free healthcare insurance since we were lower income. Sometimes I think people just shouldn’t have kids.

The “If you can’t spell stupid but you call someone stupid, you’re stupid.” is really funny ngl.

How to make your children leave you when they grew up and forget about you.

As someone who grew up with Asian parents, the relationship is complex. While they did a lot to help, there's some things they did was fucking stupid or wrong. Despite the good things, the shit they did to me and my younger brother overshadows it. He yells at me and insults me for the little mistakes, accuses me of stuff I didn’t do, hits me, uses profanity, gets mad at me for using it, pretends that he never called me degrading things or used profanity, and SLURS, brings up something off-topic, brings up the past for no reason, pretends to act as he cares, blames video games and anime for my depression, and has a fake-ass smile during pictures. He acts like every small failure is the fucking apocalypse. There were times he got mad at me for stupid fucking reasons. He got mad at me for not listening to his "advice" for shaping berets. He thinks that using pins would work, but I told him again and again that YOU HAVE TO WET IT. And he slapped me several times for disagreeing with him. He then says something like: "You're gonna use drugs when you grow up." when I angrily stormed out. When my mom intervened, I yelled at my dad when he was trying to lie about the story. Then he says something like: "You're pretending to be human and you refuse to learn". I then call him a fraud and a piece of trash wearing human skin. He then tells me to kill myself and die and tells him that I'm dead to him. And I reply with: "You've been dead to me from the start." My mom has to comfort me in my room. When I tell him something about something normal between my friend or a joke they laughed at, he would take things out of context and thinks he's right. And when I tried to correct him, he says that I don't understand when he doesn't understand shit at all. My mom also agrees that it annoys her when dad brings up something off-topic or something in the past. And when my brother would ask what it has to do with the issue (When he does that to him.) His response is: "It has to do with everything." The hypocritical thing is that my dad uses swear words and other words like bastard, something he would commonly use when he gets mad at me. But when I said that, he gets mad. When I called him out for his hypocrisy last year, he would deny that and then uses my friends as an argument, saying that they will leave me. He also accuses me of using those words at him more (From 6th grade to now) But he's the one who used those words at me. So yeah, he's the reason why I'm pretty much done with religion. It's basically one of the ways I am rebelling. But of course, keep it a secret. He also called my brother a disgusting creature, a dog, and an animal. He even said that animals are at least trained. When my brother got mad at him, he tries to counter-deflect and says that he was trying to tell him to do better. Which is... A fucking contradiction. And this is when my brother struggles to adapt and learn math. My mom's story is quite similar as she would threaten to beat me or my bro or something else, and then pretends that she never said that. In conclusion, I question if my parents' love for me is real or fake.

I promise you, not all Southern Baptist Parents are that bad. I'm the eldest daughter of a Southern Baptist Preacher, and they are nowhere close to that strict. I'm allowed to listen to non Christian music and do other things. I am held to a slightly higher standard then even my younger siblings, but its a part of being the oldest.

The best rule I've ever forced against myself was "constructive criticism, not hate." These parents (including mine) need to learn this- and theyre obviously in need of therapy or (and?) jail..

most of the punishment in my childhood was getting locked in the bathroom for 1 hour, standing in the naughty corner, wash the dishes, and more that i dont remember but these are just pure torture and pain

Hearing about what these parents did to their kids makes me afraid what THEIR parents were like.

And these are the same "parents" that goes "Why doesn't my child talk to me anymore?"

Alternate title: Top 10 criminals

13:23 that’s not strictness that’s genuine child abuse

There is a difference between strict rules and parenting and straight up child abuse and torture. My parents are strict, but they still mean well (i hope anyway) and arent abusive. most of these parents are insane, and aren't strict out of love, caring, or overprotection, but out of wanting to torture their child

how do the kids not hit their mom when the mom beats them up its insane to me how bad these parents are

I hope these people aren't in contact with their parents because that's traumatizing

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1:20 "it was kind of messed up" you said "it was so insanely messed up" wrong

The 15th story actually helped the kids become super decent tightrope walkers.

At 12 my mother poisoned me with bleach for trying to come out as queer. Then destroyed every plushie I owned and lied saying they were getting cleaned. Did the same for several items of clothing she didn't like because they were too androgenous and not masculine enough.

I was very low contact with my father for several years after years of enduring physical and verbal abuse, we made up later in life, I should say I forgave him later in life, because of him I’m the nicest person you’ll ever meet, I can’t stand yelling and fighting

That mother who punched her kid who has a kidney disease should be semt to jail. WTF who does that. Especially to there own kid. If something is wrong with your kid take them to the doctor dont insult or bloddy fuking punch them 😡😡😡😡

Why tf did these ppl not call cps on their parents.

Regarding the story where they weren't allowed to use public restrooms, was that because of germs?! Even so, why go on vacation if you have to inconveniently run back to your hotel room everytime you have to go?! Not to mention making it in time if you are miles away from the hotel! LOL!

When i was thirteen, my mom got so fed up with me using my phone that she took it away from me and forced me to start socializing. I tried getting it through her head that socializing in person was really hard for me personally, but she just didn’t seem to comprehend that and only gave me my phone back when I went to school. She thought that that was the reason my grades were getting low, but when they continued to stay low, she then made up the excuse that I was just “lazy” and “slacking” because I had done so well in elementary school. Whenever, for whatever miracle, she DID allow me to have my phone while I was at home, she would always accuse me of having a boyfriend whenever I was smiling really wide at my phone. I was talking to my online friends, and her rule is that I can’t date until I’m 25. Most of the time she never apologized for when SHE did something wrong, and whenever I didn’t forgive her for something she did wrong, she would always pull the “I’m your mother so you HAVE to forgive me” card.

This doesn't happen to me anymore but my parents would use the belt and slipper to punish me Bad thing was it was mainly my dad with the belt Even worse thing is that he'd hit me everytime I talked back, had a small attitude, fought my little sister, even when I raise my voice like on volume 2 bro It made me get PTSD at age 10 until the trauma went away when I was 12 And the fact ppl actually JOKE abt getting hit with belts are not funny. It hurts like hell and tbh it's not even discipline, its abuse at this point

The one where they had to burn all their stuff is freaking psychotic, I mean what kind of disgusting awful parents force their kids to destroy all their possessions and watch it, this just makes me glad that I have the most wonderful parents ever

These parents are totally insane and evil.

child abuse and torture by parents is literally the biggest crime against humanity

This isn’t just child abuse. This is child neglect and child abuse AND CHILD ENDANGERMENT. They’ve failed as parents and should’ve been arrested this entire time.

I had a strict upbringing, but nothing as crazy as what happened in these stories!

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I remember my mom used to take my door all time as punishment. She convinced me that I was a horrible child doing horrible things despite me not doing anything wrong and I used to think I deserved the punishments until my dad would give back whatever she took and took me to get ice cream.

''Because I said so'' Wait until your older You will thank me when your older You wait until you have kids. I am doing this for you. I will tell you later. ''Ask your (other parent) ''ask me later'' Do do this because we care. Do as I say, not as I do.

My ex-step dad was strict and I HATED it. For me it was always shut your mouth, you're grounded and so on. I remember he would also hurl empty threats. For example I was unloading the dishwasher and the plates were clanking together he said "Slam one more dish." Which caused me to cry in fear. Then one time at Disney world in Florida I couldn't find my glasses anywhere and he wouldn't stop with the empty threats of me getting a beating. I again started crying in fear. Then one time I told my mom I was determined to live with my dad. So his fat ass comes storming into the house then yells avout how my mom has the right to keep me there and that I can kiss his ass. I suddenly burst into tears (I'm a sensitive person and have a very tender heart.) He yells "you better stop because I can go louder!" The things he has said and done has left deep wounds on my heart. I'm eventually going to forgive him because I'm trying to train myself not to hold grudges against people.

These arent punishments. These are straight up worse than child abuse

This world is a cruel place, there is a lot of toxic people about.

My dad wasn't strict but I always hated when he would ground me "until further notice" and completely refuse to listen to anything I had to say in my own defense and constantly told me that "we'd talk about it later" and later never came. It got to the point where I'd be told I was grounded and I'd just ignore him and walk out the door and do my usual stuff and come back whenever.

I feel like most parents have kids just so they can have something to boss around

If these stories are true then how the hell did non of these parents not get life in prison

The bladder one is not just a punishment... thats straight up TORTURE and HUMILIATION! Seriously if I were them i would immediately sign up for adoption on secret. I am not kidding.

Bar of soap, letting them punch me, intentionally sitting me in a wooden kitchen chair strapped with chains, and letting my know bully enter their house only to punch me across the room, me punching myself as hard as I can, or punching a drywall to intentionally scare my parents away and keep them out of the house so they'll stop abusing. It actually worked now I'm way tougher and my bullies fear me too ever since I signed up for one of those boxing classes.

The bad memories are flooding back I used to have a lot of accidents when i was a little girl, because of other issues. Once when i was 6, i had an accident, and started to cry, two things that my father would refuse to let me do, he took burning hot water, and through it all over the lower have of my back/stomach down to my thigh. I ended up living with my moms friend a few months later, due to my father’s abuse…but at the time, i ended up with a 1st degree burn down there. Now i am adopted by my mothers friend, so she takes care of me great.

I usually got punished by standing in the corner, nose pressed in the corner, hands clasped behind the back. Now, that wasn't too bad, until my mom started to delay the punishment until I had a friend come over, adding embarrassment to things.

My father was quite strict, I was never allowed to say no or refuse anything. As weird as it is, I was also forced into hugs often and now that he is gone I will often start trembling when hugged. I also remember one time I had gotten really sick a morning before school, throwing up and coughing. He got mad at me for whatever reason and pushed me off of the front deck. I am 99% sure that I broke my ankle, I could not walk on it at all for a year and I still have problems with it. No he did not let me go to a doctor and get an x-ray. He also would leave the house often to go to "work" which he would often come home drunk from and never came back with money so he either went to work, got payed, and spent it of beer, or he just went and got drunk somewhere and didn't go to work at all. Because of this I was sometimes being left for days or even weeks at a time with my older brother and my mother who is disabled and legally blind in both eyes. She is really nice and tried everything to take his attention off of me and my brother but was unable to leave the relationship due to fear and death threats. Me and my brother had to help her take care of herself and we had to cook for ourselves and our mother. Atleast we learned independence from a young age, that I am thankful for. Anyway my father has a court case sometime this year and is being charged with four counts of uttering threats, mischief, and breaking and entering.

When 5 or 6 I HATED mashed potatoes. At dinner one night when I hadnt done anything wrong (he would sometimes make me eat some when bad) he ordered me to eat some and I refused. He said no food til I eat em. Two and a half days later I woke up puking from hunger and gave in and ate them. TLDR denied me food til I ate something I hated, went 2 and a half days of no food before I gave in cuz I was puking

Watching this video made me realize how grateful I should be that my parents were not like this.

Parents doing anything like this to their kids makes them feel like they actually hate their kids for absolutely no reason

All these stories, plus everything me and my sister went through, my ex-husband, my now boyfriend are why I used to argue with my ex-husband that people should need a license to have childs or had attended and passed a class. I get where he came from giving the government more control over people but at which point does this nitemare end?

this is just straight child abuse. like jesus, YOU CANNOT SHAVE SOMEONE'S HEAD WITHOUT PERMISSION, THAT IS... NO!

Call cps or the cops

To be fair, I know what that one person is referring to, and Dr. Phil never said “Kids don’t deserve beds.” He used to extoll this thing called “commando parenting” where you take away all the kid’s luxuries in life and make them earn it back. BUT that was always applied to out-of-control teenagers, like the ones doing drugs, skipping school, having lots of sex, beat on their parents, and generally super spoiled. And as I recall, they could have a bed. Obviously that mom was already off her rocker and didn’t see his advice DID NOT apply to 1st-grade kids.

The 1st one 😦

Man for story number 17 idk if you are my mom if you are stealing, abusing me, and breaking my stuff I’m gonna retaliate and nobody’s gonna stop me, because guess what, by the time you call the cops I’m gone

Idk what bass means, but your voice is way too bassy

My parents weren't very strict, but I learned early to behave. I spent so much time standing in a corner that I wound up with a pointed forehead. Mom was the daily disciplinarian, but she had her limits. When Dad got home one day, she told him that I was acting up and that it was his turn. Dad gave me a spanking. It wasn't that it hurt so bad. It was that my dad was my hero. The thought that I disappointed him was worse than the punishment. I am happy to say that I have never been in trouble with the law, and I owe that to my parents. Thank you, Mom and Dad. I love and miss you. RIP

Many of these snippets remind me of my upbringing. I left home at 15 years old and never looked back. Today I am 66 and am confident that I made the right decision all those years ago.

Best guess on #8, one or both parents were called "liars" even when they were telling the truth and are still dealing with trauma around that. Pfft. Nice loophole abuse in Story #16, even if you didn't realize that's what you were doing. At least the parent didn't arbitrarily rescind their own rule on the spot. Props to the best friend's mom in Story #22! If you're grounding a straight-A student from a looked-forward-to event for getting a B on A SINGLE PAPER, you're going WAY too far.

Honestly, #16 (12:09) was not only not that bad, but kinda funny and fair imo. The loophole only makes it better.

Wow this is just straight up abuse and there are differences between a straight up strict parent and a strict parent who ACTUALLy explain the rules to make their kids understand WHY they should follow them

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I still endure it as a note here but. My brother constantly beats me for doing nothing but being myself. Belittling me for sneezing,coughing, doing anything at all in my life. My parents have tried to stop him but we are unable to. My dad is the person who handles him best but he screams and swears at the smallest things. Me and my mom are the reasoning people in our family. Back to my brother; he has beaten me for fun and beaten me SO MUCH! I am now almost resistant to being hit, choked and many more physical ways of hitting. He likes to verbally abuse me for walking weird, sneezing and thinks he's always in the right of everything. Like he doesn't have to share anything with his little brother, his arguments are "the correct ones" and he is a sexist person to my mother.

I disowned my parents, I hate them so much. Amount of crap they have done to me is unforgivable. The abuse absolutely wrecked me, I am still affected today about it. I was taken away from my parents by the department of Child protection, best day of my life. 14 years later, I completely cut contact and now wish them dead. I disowned my whole family. My family are drug users, in prison for murder and so much more messed up stuff. Now I live comfortably in a carravan in a carravan park. I still have depression and many more physical problems but I'm managing. Go to HELL mum and dad Anyway I survived and living life and taking a day at a time. The worst thing they have done is trying to kill my dog, I wanted them to die so bad after that, I had to give him up for his own safety. You will be missed Max, hope you are living the dream in your new home. American Staffordshire Terrior, love him

Story 30. I’m sorry, but that shit is hilarious. Like I get that it’s meant to be a punishment, but damn, they were creative.

13:08 thats just straght child abuse

We also had/have some pretty wild neighbors, Jehovah's Witnesses to the extreme. One time, they convinced themselves that a neighborhood kid was being abused because... he was allowed to have a skateboard at the age of seven! (Imagine a group of Jehovah's Witnesses standing around a fence, peering suspiciously at a child playing with a skateboard.) They literally lifted the kid over their fence and took him into their house. It was like a scene out of a kidnapping movie! The boy was terrified, screaming and crying his eyes out. His parents were frantic, and the whole neighborhood was on edge, searching for him with the police. The neighbor dad, in a misguided attempt to calm the child down, gave him some nut chocolate. Unfortunately, the kid had a severe nut allergy! Instead of calling for help immediately, the family just... prayed. Thankfully, the police found the boy just in time and had to break down the door to get him out. That whole family was, well, let's just say eccentric. They only watched strange religious cartoons, their kids seemed to be living in fear, and their bedtime was an unheard-of 4:30 PM. They didn't celebrate holidays or birthdays, and the list goes on. Their son would stand outside at night, burning matches one after the other, casting long, eerie shadows. Their daughter, sadly, exhibited signs of inappropriate behavior, likely a result of the abuse she suffered. Thankfully, after the abduction incident, the authorities intervened and took both children away. Today, the family seems somewhat normal, but their past actions still leave a bitter taste in my mouth. Their cruelty and disregard for others are hard to forgive. In another incident, a friend of mine simply didn't greet the dad, and guess what? The guy stalked him on his bike, all through town! It was pure harassment.

I had an incident on my tenth birthday, a sexual incident that gave me PTSD. My father was standing naked in the backyard with a woman and I was disgusted. Three years later, I told someone about it and my dad found out about and gaslighted about it and accused me of lying and kept on saying he would never do such a thing. My mom believed him and I was stuck. I was grounded that day and they took my phone, computer, but they let me keep my school computer but they made me charge it and use it in a place where they could see what I was doing. I was upset that I was getting punished for something I didn’t do. Two months later, I told my mom the truth about it and she believed me, I was supposed to stay at her house for that afternoon but I ended up staying for three days. Two days after I left I got ungrounded, I wondered if my mom convinced my dad to give me my phone back. My dad admitted his faults three months later and apologized. One year later and my parents always listen to both sides of the story before choosing someone to believe.

Just sue them for child abuse and neglect AND prove them CRIMINALLY liable and see them arrested

I once forgot to tell my mom that I was ready for dinner at the right time... so while I still got to eat (because she can't just not feed me) She ended up giving me a peanut butter sandwich-- just peanut butter. With no milk. :) She's a good mom though.

If anything like this happened to me im gonna be the one abusing them

NOT DOCTOR PHIL MAKING THE MOM TAKE AWAY THE BED NOOOOOOOO

These parents should go to jail and what they did to you happens to them

I hate my parents for being so neglectful of me because I have being feeling suicidal AND THEY WONT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY SAYING I SHOULD JUST HAVE THERAPY AND NOT GO TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL WITCH I NEED