Absolutely. When I think back on what I went through as a child, I think, "How can two adults with college educations have such moronic ideas of parenting toddlers?" The quality of my life was destroyed by moronic parenting ideas in my Mom and Dad's brains. It must be that my parents thought everything was genetic.

Even chimpanzees know that toddlers have to be protected from harm until they are older.

In my Mom's case, it was because she was so hung up about her Mother spanking her for trying to abuse or bully her younger sisters. My Mom's mother was a second child so she probably did not tolerate Mom abusing her sisters at all. I do not know how severe the discipline was but Nana may have used inappropriate discipline on Mom. Mom jerked me up when I was about two and one-half years old, by one arm, and put welts all over my little toddler legs with a tree limb. Maybe Mom learned that from Nana.

Because my parents did not take parenting of toddlers seriously, they reduced the odds of their genetic line continuing. My older Brother is the only one who had children. Everyone of us, my brother, my sister, and myself, were damaged as toddlers. We all had emotional problems by the age of three. I got it worse because my Brother got to vent his crap on me.