I BelieveI believe that parents should encourage love and acceptance in their children rather than using physical and emotional abuse to shape their child. Growing up, discipline was a part of my daily life. Angry, my father had no patience. He grew up doing exactly what his parents taught him. A family cycle persisted in his generation and mine. My father's way of communicating was to shout; discipline us with his hand or with an object like his belt. Loud cursing under such anger happened more frequently than one could imagine. Growing up with a parent who was emotionally and physically abusive was torture. My father was a walking time bomb. Sometimes you could tell when it was going to explode, but most of the time you had no idea; what would set off his bomb could be a small, minor thing that he would take out of context. When I disobeyed my father or even talked back to him, the consequences were serious. For example, I was around fifteen years old. My dad was sitting on the couch, I was in the kitchen making dinner...