Today I looked out the kitchen window and saw Cassie(my daughter) lying across Louie's (my Boxer dog) back with her arms around his neck, I opened the window and asked her what she was doing to Louie and she replied that she was putting the sleeper hold on him but it is not working like it did when grand dad put it on DeAndre. I asked him about it and fil said that the sleeper doesn't work on animals because the arteries are in the wrong place then said she needs a human to practice on I told him to stop teaching my kids to be violent and he called me feckless and where would I be if my ancestors felt that way then said he was only teaching DeAndre the only rule that counts as a man and this is his exact words “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.†I asked DeAndre what grand dad WAS TEACHING HIM AND RE SAID "violence of action" I asked him what that meant and he said I had to ask Grand Dad because I wouldn't understand.
How did DeAndre feel when grand dad put the sleeper hold on him?
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At least gran dad has the excuse of trying to teach manliness, plus PTSD. My dad did not seem to suffer PTSD at all and was not a combat veteran so he had no excuse, but he used to torture each of us with traumatic choke holds, even me, the girl. Mom did not intervene, and was usually in the next room. He never left marks and we never turned blue. But it was traumatizing. We were so little every time he did it (drunk), we always forgot and the next time he started in wrestling, we never saw it coming. That last until about age 4, after which age we all wised up. Why didn't he take up a sport instead of picking on little kids.
He's been deceased over 15 years. I was always as kind to him as I could be. I didn't miss him the first 10 years he was dead. Not at all. But sometimes now I do remember good things he did. He was really patient with costume necklace knots, unknotting them for me anytime, and he is the one who told me overpasses and bridges get icier than other surfaces. He had a lot of blind spots and badness, but that wasn't all.