Talk:World's Best School Psychologist/@comment-31425149-20180701185428/@comment-26394749-20180802220248

I'm pretty sure the parents weren't abusive, just...dismissive. They seemed to think their son would just do as they wanted and didn't need any extra affection. He even said they didn't abuse him. As for 'beating him for misbehaving'...well, spanking wasn't such a big deal back then. My mother spanked me when I misbehaved. She's the greatest woman in the world. My father never laid a finger on me, but he verbally abused me so badly that I require monthly psychiatrist visits. Spanking and strict parenting isn't abuse, to me. Like the forcing him to read and then prove he read the book? Seriously? That's not bad parenting. That's GOOD parenting. They're preparing him for real life. Being coddled and fawned over will not prepare you for what's out there in the real world.