space captain wrote on Jun 4, 2012, 14:23:

SpectralMeat wrote on Jun 4, 2012, 14:05:
It is tough most of the time because people generally love their kids and tend to be soft with them but it will bite back hard.

either extreme produces bad results... plenty of family situations are dysfunctional to abusive.. it helps to step out of your own shoes once and a while and take a look a the big picture, if you can