Well-behaved in public, home life was a 'horror movie'

"My siblings and I were very well behaved in public, but our house in private was basically like a horror movie"

Here is an excerpt of Brie's blog from March 29, 2019:

I Don't Want Cleo To Try And Kill Me In My Sleep

March 29, 2019

"I was raised with strict fucking parents. You think you are a strict parent- you have absolutely nothing on my mother. My mother one time grounded me for a month because I slammed my bedroom door. My parents were unique among the parents of my peers because they never reneged on a punishment. If they told me I could no longer go to the Church retreat where I would have been able to eat whatever I want and stay up late trying to talk to the boys on the other side of the concrete wall from the girls' quarters, then there was no amount of contrition or backpedaling that would change that.

I think this has probably informed my parenting. I don't want to be a strict parent. My siblings and I were very well behaved in public, but our house in private was basically like a horror movie where you never knew if someone was going to run out of a corner brandishing a knife because they were in the midst of an anxiety-fueled mental breakdown. Like, literally. My mother never sharpened her kitchen knives even if it meant that she had to cut turnips by sticking a dull knife in one, and then banging it against the countertop."

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