• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    That’s the best you can do. Upset is normal. Throwing things is normal.

    Kicking, punching and violence to the point where you have to make excuses that you’re not kidnapping isn’t.

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      2 months ago

      I think that really depends on the kid too. I’ve had one behave like that fairly regularly until he grew out of it; the other will get upset rarely, and never in public.

      The post read to me as the dad cracking a dry joke, not actually making an excuse.

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        2 months ago

        to me as the dad cracking a dry joke, not actually making

        That’s fair. I’d still get smacked upside my head by my wife, but to each their own :)