Couldn't follow rules? Slapped. Failing a class? You had your phone taken away until you got the grade up if you were lucky. You knew being a single father wasn't the easiest thing on earth and he had his struggles as well but that didn't give him the right to do this to you.

You two had a lot of issues and Aizawa wanted to fix them, he just didn't know how so he kept lashing out. So you two were extremely distant, physically and emotionally.