Nancy Wilson is described as an expert in ‘Christian parenting’ and in this clip she describes how she spanked her four-year old child so that she would learn to look happy when her mother came to pick her up from a play date.
Here is Nancy Wilson spanking her 3-4 year old for not being excited to see her pic.twitter.com/FtVH9lSJJ1
— Poison in Moscow ID (@DWsChristendom) November 14, 2023
Apart from the awful practice of spanking children, it is disturbing that she is forcing her children to express feelings of happiness at seeing her that they may not feel. She is training her children to lie to her, presumably to make the mother feel good and impress any observers present.
I read some comments to the clip that say that the clip is quite old and that the child is now an adult and supports the idea of spankings to achieve goals such as this.
Here is another great moment in Mormon parenting from Utah.
This woman documented much of her child abuse on Youtube.
She was finally arrested and charged with 6 counts of felony child abuse.
Her own family members had been contacting the police and Utah CPS for years with no response.
It’s Utah, Utah CPS is widely known inside and outside of Utah for being almost totally useless. On the west coast, California CPS thinks long and hard before sending runaways back to Utah because they don’t trust Utah CPS.
Jesus wept.
And thanks to parents like her, and Christianity, spanking is still legal in the US. It ought to be a federal felony to lay hands on a child.
Anyone who lifts their hand against those who cannot defend themselves should feel profound shame.
It’s a real thing in fundagelical Christian and Christian-adjacent extreme sects that the women and children must always, ALWAYS show happy, smiling faces no matter what they’re actually feeling. The men are allowed to be immature, abusive, misogynistic pigs all they want. A lot of Christian and Christian-adjacent sects are followers of the book How to Train Up a Child by Baptists Mike and Debbie Pearl, where (among other atrocities) they advise beating infants and children with plumbing line--this handbook was implicated in the deaths of several children. They also are huge fans of traumatizing babies by putting them down on a blanket and beating them if they move off the blanket. The Jim and Michelle Duggar of too-many-kids-to-count followed this book.
Raven @1 documents another Christian (Mormon) parent whose child abuse was so egregious that she was FINALLY held accountable. Notice her sisters and some of the neighbors were aware of what was going on, but chose to do nothing to help the children. These people usually self-identify as “pro-life”.
“Greet me with a smile or I will hurt you” -- amazing.
Head over to the subreddit Raised by Narcissists for some jaw-dropping stories.
I guess she didn’t realize that the whole “the beatings will continue until morale improves” was supposed to be an absurd joke.
@rsmith #3: Unfortunately the people doing the abuse see it differently. As far as I can tell from my experience, abusers will feel empowered by abusing others. They’ll tell themselves their victims deserved it. A reason will be created and it doesn’t have to have much to do with reality. Training your victim to adopt an unrealistic paradigm where they’re to blame for the abuse they’re receiving is a standard part of grooming a victim for long term abuse. The abuser will also tell themselves that what they’re doing isn’t really abuse by comparing it to more extreme and obvious examples of abuse. If they can’t manage to hide their abuse under a fig leaf like this they’ll tell themselves they didn’t really mean to hurt their victim that badly. And they’ll tell themselves that if it was really abuse, they would be doing it more often and/or on purpose.
Joke’s on you, LykeX — their whole “family values” shtick is an absurd joke!