Adult babies exist, and they throw temper tantrums too.
Just because someone is a parent doesn’t mean they’re qualified to be one.
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Emi@ani.social 20 hours ago
I’ll never understood parents destroying property. Why waste a perfectly good thing when you could just sell it/lock it/ or at the very least throw it out.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The most spoiled little brat I ever meet did the opposite. When having a tantrum he would destroy his og PS.
He said it was so that his parents would be forced to buy him another one. And they fucking did.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I lost an og Xbox, ps2, GameCube (the GameCube actually survived but its disk drive didn’t.), many Gameboy and gba’s all to my father and a sledgehammer. Fucker always felt bad and then bought me a new system afterwards, that was how I got a 360 and ps3. That was like over 15 years ago, so its water under the bridge but God damn was I pissed each time.
victorz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Wtf would cause him to smash it in the first place? Sounds initially like a MAJOR, MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR anger management issue. Holy shit.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t remember the inciting incidents, but yeah, my father was a very angry man. He was also huge, all muscle. Benched 500+ pounds. I was the only one who he wouldn’t hit. But I definitely pushed buttons so thats how his anger formed.
He’s a much better person nowadays, his growth has been highly positive.
victorz@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Oh man.
I was the only one who he wouldn’t hit.
If you’re implying what I think you’re implying, there would have to be some sanctifying freaking breakthroughs for me to look past that.
ICastFist@programming.dev 14 hours ago
My brother has a bad temper and sometimes destroys his daughter’s stuff “as a warning”. I think the threat works immediately
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s not about being sensible. If you were a sensible parent you wouldn’t have gotten to this stage anyway.
You don’t get to the “destroying stuff” phase without a whole lot of prerequisite parenting failures. Fucking up a lot as a parent by being rigid, do-as-I-say, poor communicator, might-makes-right, and constantly using major threats as coercion to get what you want out of a kid.
So once the kid figures out that, no matter what they do, they’re gonna constantly be in the shit they stop caring about the consequences because it doesn’t change. So the parent will ratchet it up to the destroying stuff phase.
(And a caveat - there’s potential for neurospicy issues with a kid that should be checked, or even a parent, but odds are a family like this isn’t big into mental health anyway. Too many alternative causes to get all pedantic about)
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Colerics.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
Giving little importance to money spent
FishFace@piefed.social 19 hours ago
The people doing this are not behaving rationally. Asking “why…” is fundamentally misunderstanding