[cripplecreek]

This is America. I have rights!”

When I was 13 I didn't even consider that possibility. My parents were the lawgivers in our house and that's the way it was.

[visualops]

Exactly. When this child first expressed himself this way, what was the parent’s reaction? Did the child ever get an ass whooping? You have to instill discipline and authority when a child is young. Once you set them on a certain course by the time 13 arrives it may be too late if you’ve responded with wishy washy when the child needed tight boundaries and a firm, consistent hand.