Do you think anyone should "live in fear of their parents"?

[goaded]

I think they should be the last people you should be afraid of.

You should respect their opinions and learn from them, but one of those things you should learn is the meaning of unconditional love.

[TheRealPepperPotts]

No way. Fear is something I talk about with my kids a lot, though. We discuss how we are afraid sometimes, and that feeling is normal. But we don't allow the feeling to govern what we do or the choices we make. Courage is making the right decision in spite of fear, not in the absence of it.

Obviously, I expect and require things from my kids to teach them how to be thoughtful of others and responsible for themselves, and I clearly communicate what those are. But they aren't afraid of me. Kids who have been taught to be afraid of their parents will eventually be adults, who will either do things based on who is the biggest bully in their life, or become the bully.

[dustybiker2]

You don't gain respect through fear.

[CheeseMonster]

I'll do you one better, I don't think anyone should live in fear at all. There are appropriate times and places for fear. "Living in fear" is a constant. That is never appropriate or reasonable.

[goaded]

Good point.

[jennifer_bloom]

My dad might care a out me but he is too delusional and heavily troubled by his own sin and bias and anger and fear to be emotionally beneficial to me and my mom hates me and wants me miserable and dead, hated me ever since I was a young child. She committed marriage fraud against my dad by pretending to love me so she could exploit my dad my for money and labour and abuse him without threats of divorce by him.

[goaded]

I'm very sorry to hear that. Do you think it should happen?

[goaded]

Best of luck with your children, should you have any.

[jennifer_bloom]

She might have brain cancer so a divorce might not be necessary. May be you can ask God to go be me and my dad Justice. I can’t ask God to punish her but you can. If I ask, I would be breaking the do not curses your parents rule.

[Gwendoline]

Live in fear no. Maybe at most a little bit of fear as a child but definitely not as an adult. Used to volunteer at a women's shelter in England, those women lived in fear of their husband's or fathers or brothers findindibg them and killing them for family honour or a spurned cousin throwing acid in their face because they refused marraige. You only think you've problems

[exitseven]

No, sometime I would be afraid that I would be punished over something that I did but I never feared for my life.

[goaded]

Worry that your parents might be disappointed in you is not the same as being in fear.

[princeofromance]

No, parents are meant to mold their children into good people not make them fearful of what will happen to them.

[Yabbut]

No. My mother ruled by fear and violence. We don't really have a relationship today.

[LazerBean]

No, that would be very sad

[NathanDavis]

fear is not parenting

[Dargil]

Fear of reasonable discipline? Yes.

[4ngelic]

no that would suck

[msc545]

oh hell no.