What's your view on instant gratification?

I scolded my daughter last week. I felt guilty afterward. She apologized but I stood firm. I always allowed my daughter to express her feelings, but I did not like her disrespectful tone. As much as possible, I try to be calm and collected and practice gentle parenting, however, there are times when the latter does not work haha. Thus, I have to be a tigress haha.

@Iam_jauntyjen I'm also like that to my nephew. I tend to only scold him verbally. No need to do demonstrative actions when scolding. But there was this one time that he threw a paper from the trash bin to the garbage man. I was shocked when he did that. I repeatedly apologized to the man. He said it was okay, but I really was not okay. My nephew was laughing like it was some kind of practical joke. My mother already have told me that he was able to pick up some bad practices at school from his classmates, and that was probably one of the bad habits. I scolded him verbally but I noticed that he didn't take it seriously. It only then I also threw a paper at him that he stopped smiling. At that time, I just asked him whether he liked it when I did to him what he did to the man. He just cried and told me that he didn't liked it. I asked him why, he told me that it felt like he was being bullied or something. It was only then when he started to calm down that I explained the situation to him. Telling him throwing things was wrong, and shouldn't be done for fun. He was able to understand, and surely he understood.

@HaruLoid oh my. I caught my daughter calling her classmate "wegukin". I was dumbfounded. I scolded her when we got home. I honestly wanted to pull her ears haha. But did not lift my finger on her.

Raising pets is somehow looking after humans, too. You have to make sure they properly fed, sheltered, and vaccinated.