Today, my husband gave our three-year-old son a lesson on life and death. He did this by slaughtering our pet chicken for dinner in front of him. My son has been crying for hours. FML
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Today, my 4 year-old daughter thought it was funny that the chicken on her plate and chickens on farms are called the same name. I had my mouth full so I couldn’t stop my rotten eldest son from saying, “That’s because chicken is dead chickens.” Cue her crying while my son cackled like a sociopath. FML
Today, my six-year-old son told me how it was funny that there's "a food chicken and an animal chicken". That's going to be a fun one to explain to him. FML
Today, my husband once again thought it would be funny to rage-bait our child during dinner. There was screaming, food being thrown around, and a whole lot of running around instead of eating. I already had a headache and was already overstimulated, so I had to fend off a meltdown. All this over chicken burgers. FML
Today, my 4 year-old son learned that burgers and chicken tenders are made from cows and chickens. I braced myself for the tantrum, only to hear, "They're yummy. Can we turn the cat into a burger? What do squirrels and dogs turn into?" Now I'm scared of my kid. FML
Today, I was outside searching for "treasures" with my son using small plastic shovels. All of a sudden he starts screaming. He dug up the bones of our old dog. I told him that we had sent him away to live on a farm, I even helped my son write letters to the farm owners. FML
Today, I came home to find a mouse in the garage. Frantic, I killed it. My 7-year-old son came home from soccer, and started crying because he couldn't find the class pet, Mr. Whiskers. I killed my son's class pet. FML
Today, I realized burying my dog underneath our swing-set was a bad idea. My two sons are now scarred for life. FML
Today, I'm beginning to regret explaining death to my 3-year-old son. We were at the supermarket when he looked at an elderly woman and loudly told her "You're gonna die soon!" FML
Today, during a Zoom meeting, my 6 year-old daughter comes into my office, bloody all over, acting like nothing's wrong. She looks me dead in the eye and says, "Matilda's dead," and just walks out. Matilda is the neighbor's chicken. FML
Today, I was making egg salad for the week's lunches and told my son to come help. When we started peeling the eggs, he thought it was funny to roll them off the counter and ruin them. I shouted at him for being disrespectful and wasteful, and my wife screamed at me that, "He's just a little boy!" FML
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DragonMaiden7 15
I think your husband may be a sociopath...
kazekai8 11
Wtf? You do not show that shit to a kid and the first time I seen that was when I was 17. Good job for traumatizing the poor kid :<
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Comments (33)
blahblabbity 19
make him pay for the therapy your son will need ??♀️
simcityguy09 19
Your husband is a dick
NostalgiaFreak9 43
What the hell is wrong with your husband? Death is something I think kids should learn as early as possible, but definitely not in that manner.
NisaSayshi 24
Your husband is an utter twatwaffle.
Glowworm56 27
I like that word. Twatwaffle.
honestjane 22
Leave now. As a child that grew up in a home like this I can tell you it won't get better and your husband will just get crazier as time goes on. Save yourself and your child a lot of trauma and get out now. That level of crazy eventually turns to you or your child.
mcdgaf 14
meanwhile my two year old daughter helps my husband pluck the feathers off of the chickens we slaughter.
Neevster 18
I see no issue with that, I think the issue is just that it was a pet, not that it was a chicken. The kid would've reacted the same way if the dad had done that to their pet cat. If the kid is raised knowing livestock is livestock they'll be like your daughter, if the animal was a pet it'd be different
mcdgaf 14
No, they're both pets and food. We enjoy their company and their taste. We also have two turkeys, Tina and ike turkner, going to eat them in a month as our thanksgiving dinner. Believe it or not, you can enjoy a something as both a pet and a meal. Our chickens are super loving, fun, and an all around stress reliever, but ultimately pets came about as tools for humans. Even work horses get packaged when they die.
core01 30
I was 4 when i helped ny dad slaughter our pet chickens... And look at me! I have never once been caught trying to kill a human.
siggy_mcsigx 22
My mom and her sisters helped their mother drown kittens as children. They all have horrible stories of the farm animals dying in gruesome ways. All 50+ and not one of them isn't ****** up in some way.
Levvy 22
I get a distinct feeling you're using "pet" in the sense of "animal property", not personally-well-liked companion critter. Kind of a huge difference, that.
galacticstorm 6
"Been Caught"....We'll be seeing you in the news soon, won't we?
Rabite 28
Yeah, your mother and aunts are sounding lovely..
db0707 12
What an awful father... Clearly he should not be a parent. That poor kid is probably traumatized for life ?.
siggy_mcsigx 22
If you let the kid form an attachment to this chicken and let your husband do that, wtf?? Let him cry it out, he is THREE. That is deeply traumatizing in terms of trust in his father, loss of an important thing you may have underestimated, and if denied the validity of his feelings...that's shit narcissistic parents (the clinically ill) do to their kids. High and mighty people acting like it's so horrible to teach your kids compassion for living things...or your own child.
GhostFox 34
OP called the chicken "OUR pet" meaning that they also felt an emotional attachment to it. It also sounds like the husband only told them what he had done AFTER he killed the chicken in front of their child, likely because he couldn't get the toddler to stop crying.
Rabite 28
From the person who proudly told everyone here about drowning kittens.
mt21mt 15
Some chickens are just regular chickens, meant to be eaten- and some chickens, different breeds and such, are cool to have, they lay eggs, they eat bugs, they are good entertainment, they are pets.