I have had 10 children and 5 of them were teenagers at the same time at one point. I discovered that most of the parenting books were wrong. sure corporal punishment works as a young child. but how are you supposed to bend a 17 year old over your knee and administer a heavy dosage of parenting. because the teenager will turn around and spank your face with an iron bar...

but if there is anything i have learned from all my experience of having children who want to see you dead. just let your children go do there thing once the get old enough, don't become emotionally attached to them. because one day, the boy you gave a spanking at the age of 17 will return home and spear you through the heart with foul words of hate. like 5 of mine did.

so just let them go. and also watch your back

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