Posted on 05/04/2009 8:40:16 PM PDT by Borges
Having personally been to Tomball. I’d whup those kids too, if they were mine.
I’m just kidding. I don’t know what to make of it all, but my Dad did spank my 15 year old sister (back in 1964) because she smarted off to him and thought she was old enough to do so.
When my daughter was 7yrs old, I smacked her butt and she threatened to call DYFSS. I went upstairs and got a suitcase, then handed her the phone. When she asked me what the suitcase was for, I told her that whatever she could fit in her suitcase would be all she would be allowed to keep. Because once she made that phone call, she no longer lived in my home. She could have whatever she could fit in that case and the rest would go to charity for poor but deserving kids.
She never, ever made that threat again.
haha.
:)
Very weird, imo.
And the Mom’s comments about the day the damage was done was when she was arrested? Um, no, the damage was done long before that point. And her other comment about now not having a purpose in life, no one to cook for, etc.?
It’s not always the parent. In this case, just from the information in the article, it does seem that the parent (the mom) is a huge part of the problem. There’s probably more to the story, though.
Texas schools teach the kids about the powers of CPS.
I’m in my 40s and my parents never laid a hand on me. I was never spanked and my kids have never been spanked.
Something was seriously wrong in this family. The kid ran away with a 47 yr old man when she was 12.
Yep they do. Things are a lot different now then when I went to school.
Okay, IMHO, That 12 year old should have been spanked and the 47 year old shot.
But that’s just MHO........
My grandmother, who was 5’ by the way, backhanded her almost grown daughter, just under 6’, into the kitchen wall once for saying, “This sh!t for dinner again?” back in the 1940s. My aunt never said a word about not liking what her mother served for dinner again.
The 47 yr old should have been shot. No question about that imo. Or at the very least beat up to within an inch of his life.
The article doesn’t really give much information.
My cousin was sent to Catholic school a 2 parent active family and a large support system of extended family. She started running away a 15, had a baby at 16, disappeared for a while, had another baby at by a different man at 23. After the 2nd child was born, she really got her act together. Got a GED, went to school to be a surgical tech, the doctor she works for loves her so much he has offered to pay all of her expenses to go to nursing school. She has custody of her kids and is doing amazing. I can promise you it had nothing to do with her parents or parenting, her younger sister by 2 yrs. graduated with a 4.0, went to a major university and is now a teacher.
My oldest son is a hard head too. He is 18 now, he pulled that if you hit me crap on me when he was 14. I called the police right there and put them on speaker phone, I explained to the officer his attitude and the fact that he could call on me, the detective said, have at him, avoid the face. That shut him up for a while.
Just the other day he was with his buddies and got smart with me, I hauled off and slapped his face, I told him he was lucky I didn’t punch his lights out, because I didn’t want to pay for dental costs. I told him, I didn’t care if he was 18, 38, or 88, if I was alive he would not disrespect me, ever. He was embarrassed and angry but he came back later when all was calmed down and apologized, I told him I would do it again if he kept it up.
He has 2 brothers that are not confrontational but, like you said all kids are different. I was never a parent that flew off the handle and just spanked for the heck of it but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Bull, I got my butt whupped till I was 18.
When I needed it, I got it till I was of legal age.
And I didn't try to keep it from happening either.
Every time I got it, I knew what I had done to deserve it.
This is the way it should be!
She should try to get emancipated minor status for her kid. That way, she can kick her out of the house and wash her hands of responsibility. In my state that can be conferred at 16. Either that or try and have her committed to a juvenile facility. Kid has to go one way or the other.
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