06-27-2004, 06:10 PM | #21 |
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Maybe now that he's suffered the consequences of his actions he will think about what he's doing before he does it. At thirteen years old, he needs to know that his parents are still the bosses. If he's unhappy and it causes friction in the parent-child relationship, so be it. He obviously didn't respect his parents' property before, but maybe he will now that they've got his attention.
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06-27-2004, 06:23 PM | #22 |
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But that's just bad parenting, plain and simple. It increases the gap between adult and child and fuels more of an unhealthy relationship by alienating the two in that way. The kid doesn't suddenly respect his parents, he now fears them. That's wrong, I'm sorry. I would not be able to hold my head high as a parent if I had to lower myself to taking away what little pleasures my child had. The kid is obviously lacking something here and you don't solve that by fighting fire with fire - it just makes the parent look worse by not being able to rise above the incident and get to the root of it.
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While I think that the parents should have tought the child better I also believe that he deserved what he got.
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06-27-2004, 08:46 PM | #25 |
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Hmmm, not enough trust? Well, they obviously trusted him enough for him to be home alone, invite his friends over, trash the house, steal their beer and wine, and then lie about it. Hmmm, that deserves their trust! [img]tongue.gif[/img] If there's no punishment, and no fear, why wouldn't he do it again? Besides, sitting around gaming all day, probably isn't the healthiest thing for their child, so i think they killed two birds with one stone: Showed that there are consequences to one's actions, and maybe increasing his activity level by not allowing him to get his pleasure from sitting around all day. Heh, but that's just my 2 cents, and I assure you, I'm also not a parent. (Also, I am sitting right next to a cabinet, full of whiskey, wine, champagne, burbon, gin, etc. as well as alcohol in the fridge, but I haven't touched them. I'm 18 as of three days ago, too!)
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06-28-2004, 01:48 AM | #26 |
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Far as I'm concerned that kid got off lucky. In my day If I got caught doing that.My a** would of gotten redder than a tomatoe. At that age you should know right from wrong.IMO apparently this kid had no respect for his parents to do this in the first place,and probably has never been punished for anything that he has done before.For the people saying that it was wrong for the parents to do that, give me a break next you'll be saying that being grounded is to servere.
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06-28-2004, 08:45 AM | #28 |
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my parents did that to me, only it was my bike that they sold to a pawn shop, with me in the car
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