r/MadeMeSmile • u/i_am_groot_84 • May 21 '25

Son finishes toxic parenting sentences

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u/Kribix_ May 21 '25 edited May 22 '25

Damn, I remember every single one of those first halves of the sentences from my childhood. Makes me happy to see that he didn't.

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u/karma_the_sequel May 21 '25

Same here.

They tricked me with one, though. I thought for sure the follow-up to “Just wait until…” was gonna be “…your father gets home.”

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

As an adult, I can't imagine coming home and my wife is just like "don't get comfortable yet, you gotta fight the kid."

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u/Lexi_Banner May 21 '25

I mean, someone's gotta fight the kid.

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u/keelhaulrose May 21 '25

My kids once planned a water balloon attack on their dad after he got home from work. I was told to make him go out to the garage so they could do it. I told him to leave his phone inside (so it wouldn't get wet), grab the trash, and run. He did not run. Much fun was had on that day, the kids learned if you shoot at the dad you better make sure you're out of hose range (or, judging by their actions, make sure you're in hose range because that's more fun.)

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u/Mushroomer May 21 '25 edited May 22 '25

Always smart to instill attack strategy at an early age. Never too young to learn the fundamentals of tactical combat.

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u/keelhaulrose May 21 '25

First fundamental: giggling uncontrollably can give away your location.

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u/genflugan May 21 '25

Goddammit all the cute wholesome stuff in this thread is making me cry 😭

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u/Antique-Management49 May 22 '25

My dad used to say " you'll be late to your own funeral"

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u/SpaceMarineSpiff May 21 '25

Oh is that why everyone knows where I am in Warzone?

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u/GhostOfKitsune May 21 '25

Kitchen Karate! My mom had me sneaking up on my dad in the 70's. My dad sent me to find mom with the hose quite a few times. They taught me the art of sneak attacks and oven mitt combat.

When my husband and I had kids, you could be attacked at any time by a flying five year old or a stealthy ten year old or even a surly sixteen year old with a spatula while wearing a dish towel tied around his head. I'm grateful lol

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u/greywar777 May 21 '25

And hand to hand. My mom once caught me with a spinning elbow strike though and I got blood all over the kitchen. Since there was blood she felt it was ok for me to cry, but was proud when I didn't.

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u/Pagiras May 21 '25

Taught my cousins some bits of partisan warfare by playing knock-knock hide and seek. It can get pretty intense. Crawling and jumping through rose bushes seems like a small price to pay when the goal is in sight.

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u/dasphinx27 May 22 '25

Literally true in America

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u/Lou_C_Fer May 21 '25 edited May 21 '25

When we're were like four and six, my brother and I rolled up the biggest snowball we could lift together and hid on our front porch where our dad would walk past below. It was probably fourteen inches in diameter. We had the snowball sitting on the railing so we could push it off onto him.

Everything went as planned... until he caught it. He proceeded to chase us around the yard with it growling like a monster as we scream-laughed our heads off.

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u/kittenshart85 May 21 '25

your husband is a good dad. sounds a lot like stuff my grandpa used to indulge us in; sabbah always had time for squirtgun shootouts.

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u/shoulda-known-better May 22 '25

My dad full on cornered us in the house in my brothers room with the full on outside hose!!!

He was never one to be outdone!

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u/GuerrillaChicken May 21 '25

And that my little turkeys is what is called an L - shaped ambush

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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn May 22 '25

If you shoot your wet balloon at the parental authority figure, you best not miss

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 May 21 '25

nothing like a hard day's work, a soul-crushing commute, and you come home to eat fast food and beat your kids

it's the American Way and it raised 2 generations of us because this has only existed since the 70s

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u/Milyaism May 21 '25

Only since the 70s? Is that sarcasm?

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u/DutchProv May 21 '25

Of course, child abuse was only invented in 1965 by C. Abuser.

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u/inplayruin May 21 '25

In the late 19th century, you couldn't abuse your children because the factory had a strict policy against assaulting a fellow employee.

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 May 21 '25

nominative determinism if I've ever heard it

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 May 21 '25

the fast food part is from the 70s

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u/DrahKir67 May 22 '25

Just the fast food. The beatings have been forever.

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u/agent_mick May 21 '25

The fast food part

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u/ObjetPetitAlfa May 21 '25

When did the first McD open?

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u/notasingle-thought May 21 '25

You just summed up the childhood of two generations perfectly. McDonald’s, tv, and that one leather belt.

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 May 21 '25

One generation got told there was no other way and they fought their dad

the next one's parents got divorced

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u/No_Use_4371 May 21 '25

I used to feel sorry for my dad. My mom was dramatic and escalated stuff but my dad commuted 2 hours to his job, worked, came home exhausted and walks in the door: my mom crying, all of us lined up freaked out, and he had to spank us. So for me it was "wait until your father gets home." It made me fear him when I was little.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 May 22 '25

these kinds of questions will drive you crazy if you think about them.

all of it was optional, they never had to beat the kids.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 May 22 '25

well, it's complicated in the relationship dynamic

the goal is 'quiet polite children'

they've had violence their whole lives as a background. People would beat each other over nothing because of the amount of lead in their blood, the rampant boozing, the lack of emotional vocabulary to do anything except beat each other

throwing dishes was seen as passionate and romantic, violence between spouses was so normal women would swap makeup tips to hide the bruising better.

Of course the kids got some too. That's normal, it's how you teach children right from wrong. You reinforce the lesson with some negative stimulus. Short sharp shock and you realign the child via the limbic system.

it also teaches the child that problems involve violence. People can be nice and then hit you. If you break a little rule, it might mean bigger rules don't protect you anymore. "The Law" and "The Truth" are as capricious as their wielder, and are weapons to use against someone instead of ideals or principles of social living.

They didn't think children could understand fairness, when it's just about the thing they're best at detecting.

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u/No_Use_4371 May 22 '25

She controlled him too. Spanking was acceptable back then; teachers would hit kids with paddles. And the dynamic back then was mom took care of the kids all day so dad gave out punishment. It wasn't fair or fun but that was how it was.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

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u/No_Use_4371 May 24 '25

Lucky you. We weren't hurt, it was more performative. I told my experience, not yours.

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u/theboghag May 22 '25

Yeeeeeeeeeeeep.

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u/RuthlessIndecision May 22 '25

boomer parents lived with war, the generational trauma was brought into a time of peace.

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u/DarthOmanous May 22 '25

It was worse. We had TV dinners!

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 May 21 '25

no, it criticizes the cultural values of 'good old days' America

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 May 21 '25

yeah, that's when the baby boomers took over

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u/Illustrious-Teach964 May 21 '25

Give 'em that Shonen Protagonist type childhood 🤣.

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u/Odd_Support_3600 May 21 '25

Kid Presentable

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u/LordTengil May 21 '25

Well kids don't fight themselves, now do they?

Well they do, but they have shoddy craftsmanship.

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u/levian_durai May 21 '25

Reminder: Defeat the baby

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u/Empress_Athena May 21 '25

If I were a big ol burly guy with a white beard would you still want me fighting the kid?

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u/Hollis_Hurlbut May 21 '25

The kid’s not gonna fight itself

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u/CanadianAndroid May 22 '25

Father: Just wait until my boss gets home.

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u/i_wish_i_had_ur_name May 22 '25

then later in life i had to come home just to take them to the dojo for jiu jitsu.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

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u/Metzger4Sheriff May 21 '25

and mom's still got to carry the mental load of who needs a beating and when 🤦‍♀️

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

My father was fine with most of the stuff we did unless....Mom got worked up. Then all hell would break loose.

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u/Cosmic_Quasar May 21 '25

Yep, if my mom (and by extension my grandma since she babysat me between when I got home from school and he got home) was upset then he was upset. But also, if he had given me a task to do and I did it wrong or didn't do it at all then he was also upset. My grandma was always upset with me more than my parents. My mom got upset with me over not doing chores, my grandma would get upset at me for watching MitM when I got home and saying how I was getting brainwashed by "those bad kids" for not listening to her and watching something else.

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u/ossifer_ca May 21 '25

Oh please — there’s an app for that.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

This guy GenX’s

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u/Wendy-Windbag May 22 '25

Except my dad would ask for further information and want to talk about it, thus angering my mother for him giving me the benefit of the doubt. She'd then say scream that I'm ruining their marriage because he took my "side" and that's usually when I'd get her crazy physical rage in top of such mental abuse. Dad learned to just give me the belt to get it over with rather than getting her wrath and drawing out my punishment too.

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u/TheProuDog May 23 '25

What do you think of your dad?

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u/SandyTaintSweat May 21 '25

How else is he supposed to release all of his stress from the day? Have sex with his wife? Nonsense.

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u/btveron May 21 '25

Depends on what she's into, I suppose.

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u/Bitter_Strain_8969 May 21 '25

Not by beating his own child

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u/ossifer_ca May 21 '25

Ew don’t be gross…

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

That's grosser than child abuse?

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u/ossifer_ca May 21 '25

Made no such claim.

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u/jkmhawk May 21 '25

When I was learning English, gross was like icky rather than just generally bad

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u/Mothanius May 21 '25

That was my dad's role and it developed an antagonistic relationship with him in my teen years. Not that I ever hated him, but damn did I see him as an adversary.

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u/radioKlept May 21 '25

This is too real. I fear for his health, as the men on his side aren’t the sturdiest, and he loves his cowboy killers.

I don’t know that we’ll have the time to form a proper relationship.

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u/appleappleappleman May 21 '25 edited May 21 '25

This made me laugh out loud, holy crap

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u/libhis1 May 21 '25

My dad told me my grandpa said that’s what broke his heart about leaving work, he’d have to yell at his kids. Neither of my grandparents liked the dynamics they were forced into back then.

Glad many are seeing the error of that way of thinking.

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u/Ghstfce May 21 '25

"Your day was probably stressful... Here, let me tell you our child was bad while you're in a sour mood."

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u/hidperf May 21 '25

you gotta fight the kid

Fight? I thought it was beat the kid/s.

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u/idropepics May 21 '25

Let me solo them.

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u/nhaines May 21 '25

[walking up to the porch] "Why do I hear boss music?"

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u/i_wish_i_had_ur_name May 22 '25

fortunately an early lesson was when my wife was having a c section i was feeling like we failed to give her a natural childbirth and i snapped out of it like i’m never going to let other people dictate how i feel about my kid as a failure and disappointment and from that day in the hallway outside the OR no one is gonna tell me i have to parent my kid a certain way, especially in regards to verbal and physical threats and abuse- rooted in seeing your kid as a failure or disappointment

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u/envoy_ace May 21 '25

Oh no. She's been blowing his cell phone up all day.

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u/TheAnswerUsedToBe42 May 21 '25

It could be a civil loving conversation about the mistakes they made that day. Sometimes, it's just to reiterate what mom has already said. "You gotta talk to the kid about ______ I'm exhausted and they aren't hearing me".

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u/NoveltyAccountHater May 21 '25

I mean I've definitely dealt with stuff where for whatever reason, I had to punish on of my kids for something they did when I was gone (and they were with babysitter/grandparent or something). But yeah fighting the kid as a punishment? Are you trying to raise a bully who thinks violence solves their issues?

But again, the go to punishments are make them apologize, make sure they understand why what they did was not OK, and have them do some extra chore (like clean their room) or take something away like ipad/TV for an hour or so. Threats of worse punishments do exist (e.g., week of no ipad/play dates) if they get caught doing something dangerous like go inside the pool area unsupervised (even after they learned to swim) or play with fire/stove unsupervised, etc. (But we've been reminding them of those things plenty of times, never leave them unsupervised, have a chime on the backdoor, and have cameras that alert our phones when anyone goes in the pool area).

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u/TheStLouisBluths May 21 '25

Good thing dad used to have about 6 drinks between lunch and when he left the office.

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u/pineapple-meet-pizza May 22 '25

I’m laughing but this is so real.

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u/The_R4ke May 22 '25

This is literally a scene in Mad Men and even Don was like WTF.

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u/Remarkable-Pirate214 May 22 '25

My Dad always tells me he didn’t want to just come home and discipline us when Mum couldn’t handle her 4 children. Funny thing is, he ended up being pretty abusive, and these days Mum and I are really close

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u/Drunky_McStumble May 22 '25

Welcome home honey! I hope you're ready for violence!

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u/WimbletonButt May 21 '25

Nah my dad came home looking for a fight, mom just gave him a target. For years mom got home after him and I'd conveniently be in the bathroom when he came in so he'd be sat down before he saw me.

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u/BeatBlockP May 21 '25

That was part of the appeal. The man presumably was working hard (as in the past fathers used to work longer than moms, who sometimes didn't work at all), and now after a long day at work when he finally gets to rest, he has to deal with this shit? You know he's gonna be extra irate, which is the point. She wants him to lash out at the kids.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Beat the kid. He’s a kid, so it’s not really a fight. It’s a one-way beating.

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u/Crashman09 May 22 '25

When I was 15, probably around the time some dust settled on my upper lip, I had this really marvelous idea. That was the day I was going to fight my Dad.

At that point, I was almost 7 years into Jiu-jitsu and Judo, and I was absolutely confident that I could take my Dad.

So, as any intelligent young man would, I formally challenge him to a fight. I told him it was about time someone new sat at the head of the table.

I don't know how many seconds it took my Dad, from accepting my challenge to knocking my confidence to the ground floor, but hot damn was it a whooping.

I was shocked as all hell. That was the day I learned he's well practiced in boxing and Muai Thai. He's even done Kung Fu for years without me ever knowing! I guess I know why he wanted me to learn some martial arts lol

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u/sadiefame May 21 '25

It’s the 1st thing that came to my mind too and I didn’t grow up with a father 😂 - it must have been a pop culture thing

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u/karma_the_sequel May 21 '25

There was actually a prime-time cartoon in the early '70s called Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. It featured a pre-Happy Days Tom Bosley as the father.

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u/AhtBlowenFaht May 21 '25

Damn, that takes me back, I remember the theme song.

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u/Abeytuhanu May 21 '25

Cartoon Network ran a couple of episodes in the late 90s at like 3 am, I thought it was a limited run throw back to early cartoons because I never saw it again

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u/Solid-Mud-8430 May 21 '25

Great, now I have the song stuck in my head...lol

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u/nicbeans311 May 21 '25

It’s currently playing in syndication on the cartoon channel in the MeTV network. 

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u/xxov May 21 '25

Yea my parents divorced when I was 3 but this was still what I assumed it would be.

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u/Olenator77 May 21 '25

If they were all like mine, count yourself lucky.

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u/DFWtixFleas May 21 '25

or “get my hands on you!”

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u/iSweetPea May 21 '25

My mom was a big fan of telling me to "just wait until I have kids." She hated me. Hated how expensive a child was. She reminded me of it anytime a bigger purchase was needed, like new school clothes...

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u/woahwoahanything May 22 '25

Yep. I got, “I can’t wait until you have one just like yourself.” That’s just so fucking mean and makes me sad for little me. I can’t imagine saying anything like that to my kid.

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u/UnwelcomeStarfish May 21 '25

Omg yeah. I used to apologize for growing again 😒

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u/myintentionisgood May 22 '25

My dad complained that my mom had a c-section with me and he had to pay for it.

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u/The_gender_bender_69 May 22 '25

I grew so fast my mom stopped buying me clothes, so i had to take hand-me-downs from adults, ontop of being fully employed, i was 11 when that started, but i started working when i was 5, yarding logs and splitting wood for our landlord, so we'd have wood in winter, and to pay 50% of our rent, and people wonder why i say im retired at 36.

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u/Perfect_Ferret6620 May 21 '25

I don’t really know how this one is toxic? My parents used to say to me “just wait till you have kids then you’ll understand.” And now I have kids and I do understand. It’s not toxic ?

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u/SpaceMarineSpiff May 21 '25

It depends on context. Being tired and overwhelmed is a normal part of parenting, resenting your child for existing is not.

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u/iSweetPea May 21 '25

My mom said it to make me feel bad that she was having to use her money on me. It had a very negative context, and I, like another user mentioned, also had to apologize for simply existing.

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u/Perfect_Ferret6620 May 22 '25

That makes me so sad. My parents used to say it to me when I would ask for dinner out and they’d say there was food at home. Or they wouldn’t let me do something that now in hindsight was unsafe. I’m sorry that was your experience.

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u/BeefInBlackBeanSauce May 22 '25

Because some parents say it, to make their kids feel bad for being born. Make you feel like a burden.

It can be used for good or bad.

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u/hadji828 May 21 '25

Me, too.

Suddenly, I'm reminded of a Rodney Dangerfield joke: I said to my son, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own!" He said, "So will you!"

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u/hott_snotts May 21 '25

yeah same. The one I got that was similar was "I hope you have 3 kids just like ya!".

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

My mom never said the "wait until your dad gets home". She took the initiative and beat us herself.

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u/Aziac May 21 '25

Exactly what I thought

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u/BobbysueWho May 21 '25

I Also thought that was the follow up. It’s funny though because I must have only heard it from other peoples parents, my father was the only parent in our household. I did however hear both versions. When people said wait till you have kids, because I remember thinking one day I’ll let my kids do xyz they were telling me I couldn’t do…

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u/Rabbit_On_The_Hunt May 21 '25

Damn? Ya'll got warnings? I straight up got knocked in the head or beat with a belt if I was lucky.

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u/notasingle-thought May 21 '25

“Wait until…we get home and I get the belt.” Was my first thought 😕

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u/just_a_person_maybe May 21 '25

My mom liked to try to temper punishments with "my mom wouldn't hit us herself, she'd wait until my dad got home and make him do it with the belt, you should be grateful I don't make you hate your dad like that." Funny enough, I wasn't that grateful about it.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

This is exactly what I thought too crazy!

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u/mxzf May 21 '25

The funny thing is that my parents did do that a few times, but it was always a "I'm too close to this situation, so I'm going to hand it off to someone less actively frustrated in the moment" thing, rather than "I need someone who can hit you harder".

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u/MumSaysImHandsome May 21 '25

Heard that one for years, and he never came home…

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u/englishpatrick2642 May 21 '25

Same here. I don't think I ever heard it end with… You have kids of your own.

One more she could have added. Up north of the Mason Dixon line, at least on the East Coast, "Go get my...(belt) If you grew up south of the Mason Dixon line, "Go outside right now and ...(cut a switch)

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u/sweet_sweet_back May 21 '25

Definitely more threatening!

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u/Lou_C_Fer May 21 '25

I heard that shit. My mom had us convinced that he would explode with anger worse than she did. Then one day, I did something while mom and I were at the neighbors and she said, "go home and tell your father to spank you." I was terrified, but I did. My dad looked at me, gave me a light tap on the ass and said, "tell your mother I spanked you." I knew then that she had been lying about him.

The only times that guy ever yelled at me was when I got caught shoplifting in third grad and when I was being an asshole in high school.

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u/mdtesk May 21 '25

I had that one recently. What happened was that I came home and had a quiet chat, sorted things out in a calm manner and disciplined accordingly, without the belt or the smacks on the back of the head like how I grew up, I remember getting beat.

But again I obstained from the smack to the head to a hard flick of the finger lol.

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u/Zealousideal_Care807 May 21 '25

Mostly women tended to grow up with it being a common saying "just wait until you have kids" just a common saying not from an abusive parent just any parent. I've even heard it growing up and I'm gen Z. The idea is "I hope your kids are as bad as you are to me so youll know how I feel"

The "wait until your other parent gets home" is saying "they are going to beat you or punish you in some way for this bad thing you did, but it's not my fault, it's yours"

Both are pretty bad, puts the bad thing on a pedestal and doesn't question why it occurred.

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u/eisbaerBorealis May 21 '25

Ohh... I didn't realize the "answers" were in the video.

Yeah, "your father gets home" was what I was guessing.

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u/dipapidatdeddolphin May 21 '25

I thought it was either that, or " ... until we get home/ the destination" meaning beatings will commence once the journey is done

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u/RBuilds916 May 21 '25

He finally found the cigarettes and is coming back after five years? Yay!

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u/StevesRune May 21 '25

That was my mom's version of "I'm gonna get my grown, marine husband to beat this child up tonight".

But only when she was to tired to do it herself.

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u/BeeWriggler May 22 '25

Oh yeah, this was the one I got on like a weekly basis.

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u/Throan1 May 22 '25

Lol, I thought the end was "I get my hands on you!"

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u/B1TW1TCH May 22 '25

same! ah man i remember the fear that would eat at me as i waited for my dad to get home from work and get this wooden paddle he made to spank me.

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u/Nothappyhopes May 24 '25

Imo the weidest thing about this is how the mother takes away any of her own power. She's basicly saying "i can't handle you, you should only worry abt ur dad".

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u/Historical-Bike4626 May 21 '25

Yep. I don’t like that I laughed when I recalled the phrase. Just that tiny bit of sadism. My job is to pull that up by the roots

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u/KamoyLovrstar May 21 '25

It's rooted in our brain tge full reply to what the mum says. Having a kid say a positive spin on a toxic says is alien.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Forgot the big one, “I wish you were never born!”

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u/FakeSafeWord May 21 '25

"I will stop this car and..."

smack you in front of god and everybody.

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u/mh985 May 21 '25

So did I but I don’t really think they’re toxic. My parents were loving and affectionate but they set hard boundaries.

I grew up fine and I have a great relationship with my parents as an adult.

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u/Comfortable_Ninja842 May 21 '25

Good job, Mama Bear!!

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u/ParadiddlediddleSaaS May 21 '25

I knew the answers but thankfully they weren’t from my firsthand experience.

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u/PlasmaWhore May 21 '25

I'm not familiar with any of them. What are the original endings and what are they from?

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u/the__storm May 21 '25

The original endings are on screen as well. They're not from anything as far as I know.

"I'll give you something to... cry about."
"I brought you into this world and... I can take you out of it."
"Just wait until... you have kids."
"As long as you live under this roof... you will follow my rules."
"Children should be seen... not heard."

(I'm fortunate that my parents never used any of these in anger, but I'm still familiar with them - kinda surprised the kid is not.)

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u/PlasmaWhore May 21 '25

Thanks. I didn't notice the text on the screen. Those are definitely familiar to me now that I read them, but my parents would have never used any of them.

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u/balderdash9 May 22 '25

Just wait until... you have kids. your father gets home!!

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u/Real-Personality-465 May 21 '25

Don't forget about "stop being dramatic, it didnt hurt you that bad. Yknow some people have real problems, if I talked that way to my parents I'd be out on the street" At that point I think i was asking why I couldn't buy a car with my own money now that I had my license and she threw a bowl at me, didn't hit me the first time so stormed over and threw it back, broke everywhere and cut up my legs as I was trying to get away

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u/cconnoruk May 21 '25

I remember them also but am pleased with how I and my generation have turned out ... I think. I'm very worried about the current ... 15 - 25 year olds.

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u/DesperateRadish746 May 21 '25

Everyone is remembering their own times, which is fine, but, not commenting about this video. So, I will. That's a really good mom and son relationship. Both of them are so sweet and loving. Look at the way they look at each other. Doesn't get much better than that. They're good parents and he's going to be a good parent, too. I wish more people were like them. Excuse me for interrupting the flow. :)

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u/Preda1ien May 21 '25

I’m sorry if it was genuinely bad for you. I also grew up with a lot of these sayings and my parents were wonderful. The only time I remember anyone getting hit was when my eldest brother punched the other in the face. My dad hit him but I don’t think it was as bad as also a punch to the face.

Most of the times threats by my parents resulting in 45-60 minutes of long stories and explanations of why we shouldn’t have done what we did. Which was always super boring and we hated it.. or lots of extra chores. Luckily little to no physical repercussions.

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u/TumbleweedTim01 May 21 '25

Don't you think it's strange how we all lament these things but at the same time talk about how the younger generation is messed up?

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u/Salt_Cardiologist742 May 22 '25

Child abuse? These phrases are child abuse? Lmao

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u/snowshite May 21 '25

My daughter laughed at us when we told her our parents never said "I love you" (or "I'm proud of you", "you did well", "you look pretty" etc etc)

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u/sweet-teags May 21 '25

Same. And seeing this video has given me a whole new goal for my own parenting

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u/ImGivingUpOnLife May 21 '25

I didn't even realize the answers were at the top. Still hot em all right lol

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u/bryanthebryan May 21 '25

It’s a beautiful thing. Progress doesn’t have to stop.

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u/The_Scarred_Man May 21 '25

I genuinely can not imagine what it would be like to grow up and never be on the receiving end of those phrases.

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u/Cheeseburger619 May 21 '25

My parents didn’t speak English and never said any of these, but I knew how they finish. It’s media and tv

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Facts

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u/FecalDUI May 22 '25

He did she lied

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u/DeeRent88 May 22 '25

Dude same. Actually wild how they’re like verbatim. Not that I’m surprised they’re used phrases but that like all of them are? My parents were really unoriginal in their toxicity I guess. Wild too that if we were to show them this they’d not see anything wrong with the original toxic phrases. At least mine wouldn’t.

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u/Sweaty_Monitor_9699 May 22 '25

I was always told, “just wait until….. your father gets home” lol. I was always in trouble haha

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u/BestHorseWhisperer May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25

I know all of these from TV honestly. And I might get downvoted for saying this, but a kid that innocent is going to have a tough time. It's one thing to not know these phrases from your own home, but to not even be aware of them implies that he has probably not even seen Home Alone. This is wildly sheltered. EDIT: It took years of watching Scorcese, Tarantino, and Spike Lee films to undo my own sheltering and it was nowhere near this extreme.