I've sit here for the past hour reading some of the post here. You poor poor children. When I grew up in the 70's I was physically abused by my parents. It lasted until I moved out on my own at 15. I got a job, I stayed in school. I made something of myself. I didn't sit around feeling sorry for myself, they beat the living hell out of me on a daily basis. I thrived on the hatred and anger I used it to get the hell out. What happened to people dealing with this little thing we adults call life. My god quit feeling sorry for yourself and get off your ass and do something. Move out get a job live your life. It's not impossible, it's life. Quit whining about it and do something, my parents yell at me I can't take it. Then leave support yourself. Or ask yourself what did you do to get yelled at. The biggest problem with today's youth is they have no accountability for their actions. You screw up you better expect them, life will beat your ass into the ground. Grow up get over it do something with your life make a difference. I've raised 7 wonderful respectful kids. Never once did I lay a hand on them. They were taught every action has a reaction. Sometimes they didn't like the reaction but they learned from it and moved on.

So my mom and dad divorced when I was 5-6 and since then she has had a few boyfriends, the current one vapes in the car with multiple children under 15 in it and has to be woken up at 11 am by a call from my mom anyway, around last month me and his daughter asked if they were going to get married and they said “when you guys move out we are going to move to Puerto Rico” they implied that we would not come

Just for starters: I vowed to myself that I will always say something, because I was hit as a child myself and know many others who were hit.

Anyway, I just sat in front of Skype on the verandah of a hostel just now, when a woman in front of me slapped her 2(?) year-old son in the head really hard. I had my little brother on the phone (he can't understand her, different languages fortunately), so I was desperate to keep it short.

SLAP

Me: Don't hit your child!

Her: It was discipline, he was naughty.

Me: But still, don't hit your child, there are other ways... !! (or sthg like that, not sure what exactly I said)

Her: DON'T tell me how to raise my child!!!!

Me: Well, you better not hit your child in public or I'll report you!!

I know I didn't handle that well. Telling her not to hit him in public doesn't keep her front hitting him behind closed doors. Stuff like that always makes me sick and somewhat triggers bad memories. But hence the post:

How to react? Because I will. Does someone have a strategy that works and actually doesn't just spark anger from the side of the parent. I always told myself that I will be tactful if I see anything like that but mh.... :/

As I'm writing this I had just finished vacuuming the upstairs because my mom said to, this story takes place in the middle of moving the vacuum cleaner to the stairs. I had to use the bathroom since I woke up from taking a nap because I was tired from camping during the weekend. So I said "I need to use the bathroom" to my brother, he replied with "Okay, use the downstairs one" and continued cleaning. I told him that our stepdad was using it but he still didn't comply. We battled a bit with words until I got fed up and told my mom since there really isn't anything that I can do since I was (and am currently) still too tired to use force. My mom asked me if its really that important to use the bathroom and I wondered why she asked me that but decided to reply with yes. I argued for a bit with her to try to get her to make my brother stop cleaning but I failed so I had to use her bathroom instead. With this story alone, my mother doesn't seem like really a bad parent but from what's happened in the past with small things like this I think it adds up. So, what do you guys think?

So when I woke up this morning and found out that it was a two hour delay for school, so I was happy as fuck. Later on in the morning I canceled a viewing that my little brother scheduled because my dad didn't want the channel to change, so I canceled it. Then Mum, Dad, and Colton started fighting with me over canceling a viewing that my dad didn't want. Crazy, right? So I ended up missing the bus, being a half hour late to school, almost getting frostbite because they said that because of the fight, if I missed the bus, I would have to walk to school; which is exactly what happened...

Ok so me and my sister take turns watching and doing whatever we want on tv, we have either 2 to 3 hours on the tv, my sister already had her turn but instead of having 3 hours she decides to have 4, so I get on after she's finished and after half an hour she complained to my dad saying that she got of because she wanted to shower ( that was lie) so my dad kicked me off the tv telling me that I'm a lier, and the best part is is that he watched my sister switch the tv on, so now I'm waiting another 2 hours waiting for that bitch to get off, not I know wow obviously it's about internet but NO it's about everything, I'm pretty sure it's because I'm the oldest, it happens when we go out, or my friends give me something and she complains about how it's her stuff that I stole from her, btw she's 11 years old and acts like a 5 y/o

Any thoughts? ( Be harsh I don't really care)

Ok so I just want to rant about my mum because I don’t think this is right

Ok so i don’t know the hole story because my mums doesn’t tell me much but she fell pregnant with me and fell out with her boyfriend (my dad) and they fell out somewhere along the time and I don’t know if she knew my dad (that’s what I call him) or meet him but started dating and he was basically the replacement dad but I have no idea then I was born and they started trying for a baby no idea why but I know they were trying because my mum said she had a miscarriage before my brother and the hole thing seems kind of strange to me Then most of my life I thought he was my dad like they did let my dad see me when I was like 3 but they didn’t explain it properly and I thought it was a friend and stopped seeing him (not that I would want to see him) is this strange to you