Around the League: Week 2

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

Shit happens, I got over it, but I mean I got switches at 4 years old and had bruises, the way I feel is that if they feel that way then raise his kid themselves. Some of the shit I got was child abuse but I had bruises on me after whippings all the time.

Somewhat similar situation here. No doubt I was a difficult kid, in fact I'm determined not to have kids because I'm well aware of what I was like growing up, but I had a few episodes during my formative years that certainly were well over the line. Granted nothing even close to sending me to a hospital but lets just say if a Ray Rice like tape was released one of my parents could have been easily been standing in front of a judge.

Certainly got plenty of verbal abuse growing up. True story, I learned the word 'retarded' at 5 years old because my Mother used to ask me, without joking, if I was in fact retarded. Then again the first time I ever pumped gas I sprayed my Mother with the nozzle, because after all if you give a child anything with a pointy end and a trigger....maybe she had a point?

I think it definitely has a negative effect though on a kid growing up. I remember a friend of mine telling me his parents never raised a hand to him and eventually had an a-ha moment when he later told me that he had never been in a fight. When I look at myself on the other hand, though I certainly would never be mistaken for a brawler I probably had slightly more than the average amount of fights for a kid growing up in the rough upper middle-class suburbs. I'd probably need 3 hands to count them all from k-12.