My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.
In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.
When my husband came to my parents' house for the first time, he asked, 'Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so angry?' I said, 'No one's angry. This is just how we communicate.'
The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York!
I had been taught that if I cried, to be quiet about it, so whereas I never howled, the least thing made me cry both at school and at home. Crying tends to separate a child from other children, for even children dislike a cry baby, and I had no friends in the world.
I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
Luckily for me, people don't scream at me that much in my everyday life.
My mom says I was born screaming.
If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!
It drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight - the sound of them fighting and not getting along.
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