>>20606413Spanking doesn't actually work, sadly. He does it anyway, even when my mum manages to do it.
My mum's overall a really nice person when she's not in one of her "moods" - when I was younger, she was fairly strict (she was in the army after all), and I did get spanked, but she rarely blew up for no fucking reason.
It kinda went downhill after my sibling was born, though. My parents separated and she left for a different city, and she started getting kinda... out on a limb emotionally. She's actually broken some consoles, too.
1) DS - I wasn't doing my chores and so she grabbed my DS and smashed it on the ground. It lived, though the top screen was beyond repair.
2) 360 - not sure what happened, just that mum said it wasn't working. I asked her why and she kinda blushed and didn't say anything. I asked my sibling and he said that she broke it, perhaps because he was being a shit and playing it, so apparently breaking my property was a way to get back at him or something.
She gets angry at the drop of a hat these days, and I think that all of the shit he puts her through is a big part of the reason why. I'm admittedly not outside of blame, though. I avoid them both and rarely do things with her because she has to take him along as well, though we recently went out and grabbed some movies/watched a Sea Lion show at the mall. She's really not a bad person, he's just so utterly intolerable at events that it's hard for her to get friends because she needs to take him out unless I or my father can look after him.
I remember she also had to put him on a harness to go to the store and people started to heckle her about "he's a kid, not a dog!" etc, but honestly, an animal would probably be better-behaved. It's kinda a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario - if she hits him, Social Services gets on our ass and it probably won't work anyway. If she doesn't, he gets away with it, because things like grounding don't work either.
