Yelling at Kids

For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking

By HILARY STOUT

The New York Times
Published: October 21, 2009

Many in today’s pregnancy-flaunting, soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents would never spank their children. We congratulate our toddlers for blowing their nose (“Good job!”), we friend our teenagers (literally and virtually), we spend hours teaching our elementary-school offspring how to understand their feelings. But, incongruously and with regularity, this is a generation that yells.
“We are so accustomed to this that we just think parents get carried away and that it’s not harmful,” said one of the study’s lead authors, Murray A. Straus, a sociologist who is a director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. “But it affects a child. If someone yelled at you at work, you’d find that pretty jarring. We don’t apply that standard to children.

WHAT???? NO YELLING AT YOUR KIDS ANYMORE?

I though yelling at your kids was some kind of constitutional right , like freedom of assembly and abortion.

First, The Times supports banning trans fats in foods.... Then, they take on that horrible problem that plagues NYC public schools... the one that will lead to our city's youth going straight from middle school to jail:
THE SNAPPLE VENDING MACHINES.

I'VE HAD IT.

Not to yell at children just seems fundamentally wrong.
It feels similar to when McDonald's tried to sell /con kids into eating "McApple" slices instead of fries.... Or when Elton John married a woman.
It just doesn't make sense. People know they're being scammed.

Phatush's own childhood would not have been the same without her dad, COD's (Crabby Old Dude), melodious barking voice saying, " WHAT THE FUCK'S THE MATTER WITH YOU?"
It is true... It would have stopped me dead in my tracks had COD uttered some new parenting bullshit like "Phatush, please stop lighting your cigarettes with the Hanukkah candles.... You're making really bad choices."

For those of you who need the translation , "You're making really bad choices" is this decade's "Good Mommy" way of saying, "STOP FUCKING DOING THAT!"

Instead of listening to The New York Times, Phatush prefers to parent in a different style...
It's sort of an Abu Ghraib sort of way....
Yelling... nightly lock-downs... threats of physical torture....

Fear and intimidation seem to get the job done.