Birthday ransoms

[Tømpson]

Every single year since I was five my parents have done this thing I have come to know as a birthday ransom, they give me an item I really wanted (in this case I didn't want anything, so they just found something generally expensive and gave it to me.) A week afterwards, they will bribe me with the "Gift" and remove it from my room, telling me if I do ____ then I will get ____ back. This is the dumbest loving thing I have ever seen anyone do ever. If you want to get me a gift for my birthday, get me a gift, if you want me to do some stuff, then don't. This isn't even a gift, this is a favor for money I can't reject.

gift 
/gift/
Noun
A thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present

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[Menen]

You should take their stuff and then create ransom notes using letters from magazines.

"If you ever want to see your car keys again..."

[Visage]

While I kind of agree in theory that shouldn't be how gifts work you should do whatever your parents ask of you regardless unless it's illegal. Your parents should just hit you if you don't do what you're told in all honesty it's quite effective.

[Tømpson]

Your parents should just hit you if you don't do what you're told in all honesty it's quite effective.

Even I know good relationships aren't based off fear and violence.
And they stopped hitting me when I got too old for them to fight me.

[Sami2ss]

Even I know good relationships aren't based off fear and violence.

exactly, you should make your children respect you, but i don't think that's very easy to do nowadays. back in the day, i mean really back in the day, if you disrespected your parents, you were probably beaten half to death and nobody would care. in today's times, all children are going to get disobedient some time in their lives, because they'll know more and know their parents legally can't do anything.

i think this is good in some way, since they're practicing their independence at a young age for the future.  sure, their parents can hit them, even if they know that they won't do anything like go to the cops, but that's just going to make the child worse and you know that when children are abused and they don't let their emotions out, they eventually hurt somebody or themselves.