Parents will literally simulate abduction for their daughter.
And wonder 2 years later, why she has trauma, is eating anti-depressives like candies and cannot form a trusting relationship with anyone.
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@LukeAlmighty my parents took my two youngest siblings to some emergency preparedness thing, where they were all at a big warehouse sleeping on cots. they all got woken up in the middle of the night because of a staged shooting and my sister got separated and freaked out.
i mean yes, stuff like this is effective just as any other scare tactic is, but it's not like it doesn't do some damage at the same time.
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Meanwhile, all my dad did was to try being as open and accepting about our boundries. And I nor my sister ever felt the need to hide things from him or to "rebel" as abusive boomers tend to say.
Instead, I trust his advice completely.
@LukeAlmighty yeah, that's 100% the way to do it imo.