CF: You know what pisses me off about parents?

[juju]

Originally posted by Skunks
As I watched them, I realized a fundamental fact of bad parenting: The parents treat their children like a pet.

This is how I've always felt, and it makes me so incredibly angry that it's been my credo for years that I hate all parents. The lack of respect astounds me.

Eventually I was a parent, and then I realized that I therefore had to hate myself. Then I realized that that was stupid and I couldn't hate myself because I was me. I mean it -- this was a serious identity crisis ("My God.. I have to hate myself now..").

But I realized something. SO many parents treat their kids this way that I thought that that's the only way it could be done. This may seem silly, but it was a great revelation to me when I realized I didn't have to do it that way.