Xera

I think calling the cops was a good idea. That is raising your kid, letting him experience the highest level of negative consequece for negative behavior. I'm just wondering why it had to get this far before the mom decided to do that? If she had brought the highest level of consequence to bear from the begining then this would not have been necessary.

Also I agree that the kid should not be getting a gameboy for christmas. this mom probably had to work for a week for the wages to pay for that gameboy. This is a kid that is spoiled to the core.

I dont know it's been decided that kids should not be spanked by so many people. There is the ideal out there that kids can be redirected and that simply praising and rewarding good behavior will get that behavior repeated. BULL SHIT. I mean that is one part of it. but that cannot be the whole kit and kaboodle to parenting. Likewise if all you ever do is punish you kid then you wind up with problems.

Negative actions have negative consequences. Deal with it or don't have kids that grow up thinking that they should be allowed to sue their boss because they got fired when they mooned the customers- one of my coworkers at the hardware store a few years back did that, and now I see what kind of house he came from.

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