"Tiger" Parenting.

The lacking spirit that I mentioned prior. There's a sort of brokenness to them.

Eh, I don't know if we have brokenness. I think we accept cruelty too well, mould to it too well, and find it too easy to love people who treat us horribly. All while doing absolutely nothing about it. Being attacked becomes the norm that most of us got used to.

I ain't guna lie - I am a pretty noob driver. But to my defense, my dad was yelling at me about stuff irrelevant to my driving. It was when he called me a liar (he thought I was faking the hyperventilating) that my hyperventilating just collapsed into an anxiety attack.

I know some counsellors might tell you to go back to him and apologise for not being a good son so that you can keep the family together, but that is extremely messed up. I think you should get as far away from him as possible.

He could've caused your death in his anger. Get away for your own safety, if not for anything else.

The usual counter-argument would be that the child(ren), having experienced "Tiger" parenting, will make sure that they do the opposite, and then let their child(ren).

Hadriel

Sorry, but I cannot agree with you here. If people are treated and brought up with abuse, they will become inclined to inflict it on others. Whether it's out of intense accumulated anger at themselves or their parents because of the abuse, it strengthens the possibility of them becoming abusive parents themselves. Tiger parenting propagates itself. It takes a lot to go the other way, especially if you know you will be (and you end up being) hit by abuse in the next second, or hour, or day.

If their entire childhood is founded on that sort of behaviour, even if they were to try to change, the majority of them wouldn't know the essentials of other forms of parenting. Simply not enough are receptive to, care about, or realize that there are other ways of raising children.