Sometimes parents try so hard to provide their children with a better future that they themselves do not notice how they turn into tyrants. Excessive control, criticism and judgment due to school performance harm children physically and psychologically. We talk about the shocking punishment that parents came up with for their daughter, who received a bad grade.
Most modern parents understand that physical abuse is unacceptable. Even spanking and light slaps on the back of the head make a child feel humiliated, deprive him of a sense of security and completely destroy trust with his family, not to mention beatings and mutilation, which cause noticeable physical harm.
Apparently, for this reason, the parents of a 14-year-old schoolgirl and a 21-year-old student did not resort to corporal punishment, but limited themselves to swearing and insults when they were dissatisfied with something. But one day they crossed all the permissible limits, as their son anonymously told about on the Web.
He explained that his parents were overly worried about his performance at school, and his mental health was greatly affected by their actions. After the birth of their daughter, the couple did not change their upbringing tactics and continued to demand good grades from her in an educational institution.
Since childhood, the girl suffers from severe headaches – migraines, which is why she is forced to take painkillers.
When she failed a test at school, her parents decided to teach her a lesson. The brother thought that mother and father would, as usual, limit themselves to moralizing, but they went further. The parents took away all the migraine medicines that the doctor had prescribed for her from her daughter. They also forbade turning off the light in the room and closing the door – knowing full well that bright lights and loud noises provoke a girl’s headache.
The schoolgirl called her brother in tears and explained what had happened. The young man immediately rushed home to stand up for his sister – fortunately, he lives in a hostel not far from his relatives. He accused the parents that their daughter’s academic performance was more important to them than her health, and called them bad parents. In response, they said that he is a terrible son, and overreacts to the domestic situation.
Users supported the author of the post, saying that he did the right thing by standing up for his sister. They advised the narrator to scare the parents by calling the police.
After all, deprivation of medicines is nothing more than child abuse, for which they can be deprived of parental rights.
Commentators, who also suffer from migraines, considered such punishment to be torture. “Every time I have an attack, I experience extreme pain and I feel sick from any movement. I have to wake my husband up and ask him to bring me migraine pills, ”shared one of them.
Indeed, the parents clearly went too far when choosing punishment for their daughter. And although they were guided by good intentions – to improve the academic performance of their daughter – the mother and father put her physical well-being at risk.
They should listen to the opinion of the eldest son, who grew up traumatized due to inadequate parental control over his studies, and try to correct their behavior at least for those remaining years, while the daughter still lives with them and did not leave to study at the university. Good grades are definitely not worth spoiled relationships with children.