Topic : 07/10 Biggest Brats

I have two children and I wouldn't be afraid of either if them.  I love more than life itself, and sometimes love includes discipline something I don't either of the guests gave their children. 

If either of my kids acted out like this they would be eating dinner standing up for a month. 

Some parents act like all of a sudden, their child woke up a brat.  This starts in infancy, in my opinion.  Sure, infants depend on their parents for everything, but it's how you respond to them and their needs that molds their little brain, that little spongey brain that starts absorbing from the date of conception.  

My daughter is 29 years old and thanks me often for not allowing her to misbehave or back talk me.  She sure tested me when she was a senior in high school, but never did she talk back to me or curse at me.    

The 18 year old teen on the show cursing at her mother, I just wonder when did the mother allow this the FIRST TIME?  I mean, this started somewhere.    

I just think it's horrible the way some parents raise their kids (allowing their kids to sass, etc), calling it "love" and it's so sick.  They don't realize what they're setting their kids up for as adults, as well.  

thanks  

I have a 7 year old boy who has aspergergers syndrom and ADHD and I have been there with the bratty child syndrom and  learning to be consistant with him and it was the most hardest thing as a parent to do , but I have learned it and the most important thing I learned was picking my battles with him...And as for the " I hate you "I got so tires of hearing it I started giving him hugs (wanting it or not) and would tell him I LOVE YOU SON, and he started to stop saying I hate you...also trying to keep a him on a schedule seems to have helped him....He is the most sweetest little boy there is except when it is school time, that i have not figured out yet he goes through a power struggle with the teachers and and principal so I am still trying to figure out boundaries in that area...Also as for the knives and lighters I have them out of reach as they say out of sight out of mind.....  

If anyone has any ideas on how to help him with school please feel free to let me know.  

thank you ..Stacie  

1st off how could you NOT feel something is wrong with your child when they act that way?   There is NO WAY to think that *time out* will work with that child.   He could CARE LESS.   He needs a good hard SPANKING and to be told who is BOSS.    

She says she's a "good mother"??   Are you kidding me?   A good mother would have had him in with a good Psychaitrist a long time ago.   

WOW !!! 

R. 

Someone needs to make sure those poor animals are taken out of that house! 

That is ridiculous and its animal abuse! 

Your story is SOOO Awesome!! 

My 10 yr old ADHD son was sitting here and saw Justin on TV and commented how even he was never THAT bad.   Then he said "is he ADHD" to which I told him that I don't think so, I would guess ODD. 

R. 

I never was spanked as a kid, was the youngest of 4 kids and my parents never spanked any of us.  We were placed on restrictions, activities were cut out and extras taken away.  And my parents never hit each other.  I just think hitting teaches hitting and doesn't solve anything.  I think most parents spank out of anger.  I know there's lots of people who believe in spanking, but I'm one that doesn't.  I don't want to physically hurt a loved one, I want to teach a lesson without physically hurting them.  I wouldn't dream of hitting even an animal, much less another person, my child or not.  

My first husband was physically abusive towards me, not our daughter, but I sure got the hell out of that marriage before he could hit her because I knew she would be next.  She was 3 years old when I divorced at age 23. My ex-husband was disciplined by being hit with a belt and anything his mother could pick up, actually, which in turn taught him to hit to get results.  My daughter has never been hit and she has turned out to be a beautiful, caring mother of a 2 year old son.  I believe you teach your children to respect you as their parents and that respect carries over into their whole world as they become adults.