UGHH

So if my dad gets mad at me and my sister, he’ll stop talking to us/looking at us and then sometime later that day or the next he’ll call us in and give us an unusually stupid punishment that’ll last for maybe two days until we tell our mom and then he gradually starts talking to us after a couple of days.
I hate going through this stupid cycle. And the annoying part is that the only way we know if he’s not mad at us is if he makes fun of us. I really wish he was a little more soft. Like seriously man, what are you going to accomplish by not talking to us?