Why our parents wanted to kill us half of the time. Looking back at my childhood, I have started to understand why my parents wanted to kill me and my brother half of the time. The things we did to drive our parents up the wall, is just sad.
Till' this day I still think my parents want to kill be and I am thirty... Go figure!!!
Looking back at what my parents did to me and my brother probably would have gotten them arrested this day and age, but back then it was called discipline. And discipline was what straighten our acts up when we became out of hand. I remember when my mother use to hit me and my brother in words, Don't-ever-do-that-a-gain!! Or if we were out and were out of hand and she gave us that look (I know all of you know what look I am talking about) and if we disregarded it, she wouldn't say anything else. She would wait until we got back home, and once we got into the apartment, we would get smacked right in back of the head. If we asked what was that for? We would get a bigger smack for forgetting what we did wrong in the first place. Once time I ran under the bed and my mother went and grabbed the broom and tried poking me out of it. Now, the things about it was I would laugh so hard, which would make her even more mad. And as painful as it was, I would still laugh and she would say if you lose an eye while I am poking you out of there, than you are going get double the beating because you made me make you lose your eye. Oh and forget about threatening them that you were going to call the cops... If that ever came out of my mouth when I was a kid, she would call the cops for me while beating the living day lights out of me.
As much of a pain in the ass I was to my parents, they disciplined me. They gave me honor and respect for myself and for others. I am completely thankful that its made me be the person I am today. They taught me to respect my elders, to say please and thank you. To never walk into some one's home without greeting them, the list can go on.
(Now, if you went ahead and asked my parents if they did anything that I have just mentioned. Of course, they would say no.)
Kids have no idea how lucky they are. This BS of timeout.... Bwahhhhh, no such thing in our day. I also feel sorry for the kids nowadays. They don't respect their elders let alone themselves. And there is no such thing as discipline in their vocabulary. What as this world come too....SMH...
And that is why we are the women we are today, because our parents did that to us lol!
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