All Blog Posts Tagged 'discipline' (2)

Violence to a child is still violence. And it sucks. I know I have spent a long blog post on this topic already, but it pisses me off and breaks my heart at the same time. Here goes… A woman in our play group was going on about how appalled she was about something that happened to her friend the other day. Not realizing which party in the story was her friend I was at first confused, and then put my size ten foot in my mouth. Then I thought better of it… Continue

So, I was from one of those "you will sit there until bedtime if you don't eat" upbringings. I'm not fat, but I soon learned that just shoving it all in even if I wasn't hungry made Mom and Dad infinitely happier than seeing me pouting at the table all night. From there comes my emotional eating that I have attempted to control my entire adult life. I do blame that mindset, although not my parents who truly did what they thought was best at the time. This is obvious to me because my second sist… Continue