WOULD YOU PRESS CHARGES AGAINST YOUR OWN KID?

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Permalink Reply by julia c anderson on June 21, 2009 at 2:24am

tough love should have been implicated way before this-he was doing wrong things that went unnoticed & unthreatened long before-as parents we went loud & spastic & threatening (never hitting)for any little things-we never had to deal with big things

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Permalink Reply by melody mcbride on July 5, 2009 at 11:29am

Kudos for mom, kids need to learn that there are consequences for every action they do period, the harder you are on them the harder they push back, and the harder we as parents need to be. I can't get over the lax and lazy nature of some parents these days, they would rather sit and parent from the armchair then get up and do something about their kids behavior and then wonder why there kid is so out of control later. I mean honestly do they have to ask?! I also am a mom that turned her underage 17 yr old son in for drinking, being drunk, and assaulting his 13 yr old brother by drop kicking the front door at a dead run and slamming his brother's arm in it, and you know what I would do it again.

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Permalink Reply by MsKrys on August 17, 2009 at 11:34am

How is your son now? I was advised to press charges against my son who severed my tendon in my ring finger. There had been many incidences in the past so this was the final straw. He has not been allowed to come near me since March. I love him but knew he was off the rails and his father (we are separated) continues to enable him and create a neverland where there is no responsibility. I wonder if he'll ever speak to me again and understand that I had to follow through with this consequence when he was still a youth or he would be in greater trouble when he turned 18.

melody mcbride said:

Kudos for mom, kids need to learn that there are consequences for every action they do period, the harder you are on them the harder they push back, and the harder we as parents need to be. I can't get over the lax and lazy nature of some parents these days, they would rather sit and parent from the armchair then get up and do something about their kids behavior and then wonder why there kid is so out of control later. I mean honestly do they have to ask?! I also am a mom that turned her underage 17 yr old son in for drinking, being drunk, and assaulting his 13 yr old brother by drop kicking the front door at a dead run and slamming his brother's arm in it, and you know what I would do it again.

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Permalink Reply by michelle gibson on November 17, 2009 at 8:43pm

Yes, I would press charges, she did what she had to do. He could have killed someone and how would you explain to the other parent that you might have been able to prevent this from happening. I fell we as parents need to take back our roles as parents not their friends, not their equal .but their parents

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Permalink Reply by Peggy Gorman on November 18, 2009 at 11:02am

I do feel that we need to be parents and if our children aren't being responsible for their actions ,then you are left with no choice. This Mom is doing the right thing. I would also stand by him letting him know that certain actions will not be tolerated.
We all love our children and want them to have the best. Sometimes we have to protect them this way.

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Permalink Reply by daphne young- oliver on November 19, 2009 at 5:20pm

yes indeed have a son that ws steady getting into troublebut grannie would get him out every time so when she needed him before she died he was too drunk to help now she is dead and of course he is in jail

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