This topic breaks my heart every single time... Thanks for writing such a wonderful piece about it!

Parents told us to be polite and behave decently, while they disrespected each other with horrible names and argued to the point of tears.

"The problem is that the parents are looking for behaviors, emotions, and thinking patterns that their children have never seen modeled." ~ Brené Brown

Ironically, those same parents are shocked when they learn their kids become bullies at school, and school bullies are likely to become cruel adults.

They use the lessons of their parents to put others down and act mean. They use cruel argument, toxic humour and hurtful sarcasm.

Their drive is to feel better about themselves, and don’t care if they hurt anyone’s feelings in the process.