My stepmom threw my Star Wars toys in a garbage burner and broke several of my toys with her cowboy boots. She even backed over my one of my plastic spaceships with her pickup. Did anything like this happen to you as a kid?
2006-11-14 23:18:54 · 13 answers · asked by alterper 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Yes. It is a very nasty thing for an adult to do. Your stepmother should be punished for her actions against you. If your father won't re-act, then take the matter into your own hands. Figure out what to do, I am sure you are resourceful. An eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, etc.
2006-11-14 23:23:04 · answer #1 · answered by seek_fulfill 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, my toys were never destroyed like that.
I think there are more effective ways to discipline a child. It is acceptable to put a toy in "time out", in other words, to take away the toy until the child starts behaving/ stops misbehaving.
Destroying toys like this is too harsh and could be considered abusive.
2006-11-15 02:42:43 · answer #2 · answered by kristin c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My gosh - what do you do to make her so mad??? If you really like your toys, maybe you should make sure they are all picked up and put away in your room (or wherever they belong). I know my three kids used to drive me crazy with toys all over the house until I started telling them that I had picked up whatever they had left in the living room and threw it away. Boy did they start making sure all their toys were put away properly. I then took down the box I had hidden in the garage and gave them back their toys and they loved me and loved their toys and I never had to worry about a messy house again!!
2006-11-15 14:36:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, she was acting spiteful and childish herself. I would take a toy away from an older child (7+) and make him donate it but not one so young that they can't understand. I would teach him that if he can't appreciate his toys then he can give them to someone else who will. But to intentionally and cruelly destroy the toy in front of the child - no, that is emotional abuse.
2006-11-14 23:51:22 · answer #4 · answered by AlongthePemi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, yes. My mother had some serious anger issues. In place of hugs and quality time together she would show love by buying me all kinds of wonderful toys, especiallly dolls and stuffed animals which I came to love as I would her. Every child needs something to love back, if not their parent. Then she would get angry at me and overreact as a result of her own life choices and she would throw things, breaking them on our walls and putting rips in them with her shoes.
Now as a result I am debilitatingly materialistic. I cannot stand to see anything destroyed or damaged, even thrown away. I can't get over it. New things make me happy and seeing my things get systematically desroyed by my roommates makes me cry.
Please, I beg everyone who reads this, do not ever disregard a child's impressionable mind!
2006-11-14 23:48:25 · answer #5 · answered by Nénuphar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's two sides to every story, I'm sure we're only hearing how horrible your step mom is and not how horrible you were to her before she did this, as you mention it was a punishment. Yes, I would throw away my childs toys if they refused to put them away or were otherwise intentionally disrespectful to them and me. If they don't respect their toys that I spent MY money on to purchase for them, then I see no reason for my money, time, and purchase to be disrespected. Right into the garbage bin they go. Nothing of yours belongs to you. Your parents spend THEIR money on items for you.
2006-11-15 00:10:38 · answer #6 · answered by sovereign_carrie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that's cruel. I have taken toys away for a time, but never destroyed them.
I did work at a childrens' home once and another lady I worked with stomped on a kid's watergun when he wouldn't sit still in time out.
2006-11-15 01:42:56 · answer #7 · answered by Jessie P 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that was really mean of her. i would never do that to my kid. but i do occasionally go through his toys and throw out all the little happy meal toys or the broken and destroyed toys. i consider all those things junk, but i would never throw away his action figures or a toy i know he loves or actually plays with.
my mother used to throw mine away because i was making a mess with it in the house. she didn't do it in my face, but behind my back.
2006-11-14 23:43:55 · answer #8 · answered by Miki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh man!
Thats just wrong
Hopefully you wont turn out like that to your kids.
Thats pretty darn terrible.
Bad kids are really the result of bad parenting, and i can only wonder what role your father played in all of this.
But if that happened to me, Id defintely start a covert sabatoge campaign against her to let her know, you cant do that to me.
That is only if dad didnt do anything about it
2006-11-14 23:24:29 · answer #9 · answered by writersbIock2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn, way to traumatize a kid! No, nothing like that ever happened to me....I was a perfect little angel, lol. I would never do anything like THAT to my kids either. I take things away for awhile, but they're able to earn them back with good behavior.
2006-11-14 23:23:08 · answer #10 · answered by freyas_kin28 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋