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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, but if you did your job as a parent, your kid would NOT be rioting in the streets!!! [View all]TexasProgresive
(12,164 posts)is really disingenuous. This woman may be a bad parent but you don't have enough evidence to make any kind of rational judgement. We have 4 sons and each one is different. All have done things that make us happy and other things that make us sad. Are we completely responsible for the good that they do or the bad?
One of our sons, the same age as this kid got drunk with a friend who then had an accident. I don't know why the PD didn't charge them but they were transported to the local hospital. When I arrived I could hear our son shouting loudly at the receptionist and everyone else. I was so outraged at his behavior that I drug him bodily out of the emergency room and lifted him off his feet up against a wall. I did not hit him. I don't know why, but I read him the riot act in that calm cold voice that seems to get more attention than screaming. I was unaware that we had and audience until I let him down and they applauded.
The behavior of this son was typical for him but not his brothers. So I guess Mom and I failed him and did right by his brothers as you would judge.