I'm voting for fake but it was a good read nonetheless.

I bet he cried like a little baby! LOL

I'm thinking 13 is about when I started rebelling against my parents (sneaking cigarettes and sips of wine from the fridge, talking back, etc.). I'd never open a bottle of champagne though, that was just stupid!

13 years old and he's 6'3"?!? :eek: Methinks McDonalds needs to lay off the steroids in the Big Macs!

And beatings aren't necessary, just the implication that you could give a beating if you needed to. Not once did my Dad raise a hand to me, but he kept me in line because I always "knew" that he would beat my arse if I gave him reason to. Call it fear, call it respect, but that's missing in too many kids these days.

Exactly, if you are going to sneak booze, they you sneak the stuff in the liquor cabinet, the clear liquids, that can be replaced with water. You don't open a bottle of champagne, and leave the evidence in the fridge...

I laughed at this.

At 13 years old you had better understand why you're loosing something valuable to you when you wrecked TWO valuable things of someone else. If not, you are a few fries short of a happy meal and no amount of training will fix that.

I agree working it off would would be better. It would require active participation in his punishment. It can also teach a good work ethic and the value of money.

He wasn't supposed to be home alone. He was supposed to be at the skating rink with all the other kids. He wasn't supposed to leave early. Granted perhaps there was no supervision there at the time but I doubt all those parents were sending their kids without supervision. I would hope someone would be overseeing. If not then yes they made a serious error. "Saturday night I send my son & his friend to the skating rink like the rest of the parents. I was to pick him up from the skating rink after it ended."

If I had pulled this shit, I think my dad would have put me up for auction on eBay.

No, think of it as a tax refund.

Say I have $1000.

Dom Perignon - $120
Playstation 2 - $170

Leaving me with $710. However, since the Dom Perignon isn't a loss at this point, it's an investment, since I would be enjoying it through drinking it. The Playstation, on the other hand, is a "loss", because I am not using it, it's like it's not there to me. My personal net worth is $830.

Suddenly, a masked man breaks into my house and steals the champagne. Suddenly my net worth is down to $710. So, to recouperate some of the lost funds, I sell my PS2. This does not affect me in the slightest, but my net worth still goes back up to a cool $880. I can buy another bottle of Dom and the universe is righted.

Plus, it would be great to see the look on the little bugger's face.

One is psychological, one is physical

I prefer physical to get MY message across... but each to their own i guess

at least the kid has taste

The only problem with this whole thing is... they left a 13 year old home alone for too long...
I have a 13 year old son.. soon to be 14 and I don't think he is ready to be alone for a weekend... he is close but I am not ready...
nonetheless good story

haha thats great... i used to get spanked when i was a kid. now if i drank while i was 13, my mom would have broken my neck

I think a broken neck might have been a blessing. My mom would have skinned me alive and then said, "Clean this up! Who said you could make a mess like this!"

Fake or not, the consequence is right in line with good parenting. You ruin something or take something that is not yours, you pay. In this case, the PS2 is the child's and he needs to suffer the consequences of his actions. My kids have had to pay for what they have ruined and if the PS2 didn't bring in enough money, I'd sell something else too.

Note: She left her son at the skate rink and he came home without permission. She sounds like a frustrated, but perfectly reasonable parent to me.

Well, that cracked me up. I hope my future children won't be this hard to deal with, but knowing how I was, I'm sure they will be.

If my parents found out that i was drinking at 13 i think i would have gotten off easy with losing my play station. Especially if i were being a smartass like it was no big deal.

Still a good punishment. Glad to see parents taking responsibility for raising their own kids. Most parents these days would blame it on society, telling their kid to go to their room (where all the fun games and tv and radio and computers etc are) forgeting about it 15 minutes later.

agreed...
did not realize the skate rink part... should have read slower *grin*
On that some note..
Last night my 13 year old confessed to me that he tried a cig....
ok so I didnt freak out because I was glad he talked to me and I gave him the usual lecture calmly..
but man
It is so odd to have a teenager, and even more odd is knowing he is going to be trying and doing all the same shit I did..
all I can hope for is everything I taught him sinks in...
I feel good he trusted me to tell me that though, so maybe I have done something right so far

give that mom a high five!! way to goooo MOM!!!

I like it.. it has.. a sense of completeness

bet she buys the kid another one for Christmas though.. Some people never learn

looks like this kid needs to learn how not to get caught by mom and dad. but what a great punishment. too funny!

Hey sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get a kids attention. I'll bet he thinks twice about throwing a party again.

I hate the mom for owning a bugel in the first place. I hate the kid too for being stupid enough to get caught.

You need to be creative as a parent. Some kids would rather take a major beating than a ban from their games. I had a nephew who didn't care if you spanked him, he would laugh, but make him sit on his hands for 10 minutes and you had his attention. Parents need to find that "hot Button" and use it. I think that is why some parents go overboard on certain punishments and wonder why it doesn't work. What YOU think is important and what the CHILD thinks is important are two different concepts.

Great idea but i would put a twist on it myself. If he wants another ps2 he would have to work for it. Teach two lessons at once.

Loss for his actions and value of money in how long it take him to earn the funds to replace the ps2..

As far as the drinking is concerned would have taught him the leason the same way my dad did. You want to drink ok lets drink and sat me down with a bottle of jack danials. I was sick for two days and learned my leason about drinking real quick.. I learnd alot from the way my parent punished me and I hope I can do the same for my child as he gets older. Dont just punish make it really teach a leason in the prosses..

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that's AWESOME. my dad pawned my bass guitar for letting my friends drink his beer one night, so i can't help but feel a little pity

guess I have a lot to learn about being a parent... good thing I'm not one yet

I'll take this advice to heart for when I am though, thank you

great, thats just great. now I have to be careful what I do. I do not want my wife selling my PS2, (unitl next March, when the new PS3 comes out) keep this quiet for a couple more months ;)