Spoilt BratsMr Newton sighs, "ever known anyone so spoilt you would love to strangle? I lived with a Paris Hilton-a-like who complained about everything, stomped her feet and whinged till she got her way. There was a happy ending though: she had to drop out of uni due to becoming pregnant after a one night stand..."
Who's the spoiltest person you've met? Has karma come to bite them yet? Or did you in fact end up strangling them? Uncle B3ta (and the serious crimes squad) wants to know.
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chthonic, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:11)
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HmmJust out of curiosity, why was it the Mum's job to do that? If you had such strong opinions then why weren't you doing it?
Yes it is a very good way to deal with a spoilt child, but parenting is a two part thing. Just the way it's coming across is a bit...off
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elements of ^ thisOne of the common things you always see on supernanny and the ilk is that the parents don't back each other up.
However, that's not to say there's not more to this story than we don't quite understand.
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bluemeat has been best of all the animals since, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 10:15,
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Oh, I tried, I really didBasically, I was constantly undermined. Any instructions or requests were countermanded, usually with "Daddy doesn't mean that". It was made fairly plain that going loopy would result in "get suitcase, pack suitcase, fuck off." You lie to yourself when you love someone: "There's always tomorrow" or "maybe this time she'll see the light". Occasionally, when I was with LittleScars on my own, we would be calm, happy and stable. Then the dismal circus would restart.
I brought it to a head in France because I no longer cared. The two people I loved the most were the people I despised the most. So I showed them a naked blade, as it were.
Had it gone the other way, I would have wept buckets, but over the loss, not the decision. After it was long past, I found out that what I witnessed was by no means the worst. A neighbour told me LittleScars had been seen kicking her mother in the back, hard, to get her attention. At the age of 6, she had wet herself rather than get off the sofa, because she hadn't been given a hand up when shouting "I need the toilet". And so forth.
Now? She's growing into a charming, polite, lovable young woman. Still a few odd moments, but no more than usual for her age.
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OkWell kudos to you then, it can't be easy feeling like the only sane one of the bunch. Glad to hear things have worked out ok for you guys.
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