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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Jon, parents are helpless. What exactly does a mother do? You can't physically keep the child home.
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I was never hit, rarely yelled at and never grounded as a kid. (I'm 24 now for reference). I always got away with shit with my mom but as soon as she dropped the "I'm going to tell your father" I straightened right the fuck up and stopped whatever I was doing.
I didn't dare piss off my dad. Not because he'd yell or hit me, but because I didn't want to disappoint him and he was way better at showing he was disappointed than my mom.
I guess it's hard to establish authority with your kids nowadays. I would say a mother could turn to the father to help but I honestly don't know more than a handful of people who actually have kids with a 2 parent household anymore.