Comments on: Rule #20: Use God to Make Your Kids Paranoid

By: Rule #98: Blame Your Kids for Natural Disasters — Bad Parenting Advice

Rule #98: Blame Your Kids for Natural Disasters — Bad Parenting Advice — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:29:44 +0000

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By: Rule #83: Teach Your Child to Shoplift — Bad Parenting Advice

Rule #83: Teach Your Child to Shoplift — Bad Parenting Advice — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:58:09 +0000

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By: Voice of Reason

Voice of Reason — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:16:12 +0000

My grandparents, and to a lesser extent, my parents, tried this with me. In response, I became a hardened atheist. During the last few years, I warmed up to the idea of God again, but even now, I still think that the best god is your own sense of morality.

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:13:15 +0000

Lol. My mom does this to me. Never worked. I became agnostic.

By: sandra

sandra — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:28:01 +0000

my mother tried this with me when i was younger. i laughed at her and said that if god’s wrath was with me always then so was the goddesses love. imagine, a 3 year old raised as Mormon since birth saying that do a devout LDS woman….

By: brent

brent — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:51:14 +0000

there’s nothing that quietly strangles you more efficiently than the guilt trip.

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:23:58 +0000

My mother and grandmother used this one on me and my sister growing up. It was quite effective.

By: Mary Catherine

Mary Catherine — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:50:50 +0000

This practice never seemed to work on my sons P*te and Bo*is. When I told them God would punish them for being bad, they would laugh at me. When I made them go to church for confession, they would rush off in their shorts, sneakers and t-shirts, confess, say the Hail Marys, and then do those bad things all over again. I don’t know what went wrong with those two. I was raised to know that God’s wraith was always with me, thanks to all of the wonderful teachings of the Nuns and my parents.

By: Shell

Shell — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:28:29 +0000

“…crotch-gnarling badgers” is much more fear inducing than the possibility of getting crabs. Hands down…You win.