It's sad that the budget board is beginning to be such a criticizing place. Panties always in a bunch, everyone LOVES telling someone else how terrible they are, how they should live their life, how wrong they are for their decisions....and how great they are as parents...how they would NEVER let their child do this or that, or if it was their child they would do this or that. Geeeezzzzz.
COME ON PPL.....This is a 12 year old sitting at home having fun as a 12 year old..do you really think he came to the budget board to P*#$ Off Disers or did he come over to the budget board to have a lil fun like a 12 yo kid. He isn't running the streets, he isn't smoking weed, sneaking drinks, stealling or hocking grandma's credit card out of her purse when she was visiting. He's a 12 year old who made a 12 YEAR OLD decision....one that was completely funny as a 12 year old. As Adults, our humor point is a little different but to kids his age...this would have been freaking hilarious.
To attack his parents parenting skills is simply crazy. This is the Disboards...Definitely a safe place for kids to hang out vs many of the other suits such as warcraft, facebook, myspace, etc. Ohhhh my, he is up past 11:00pm--IT'S SUMMER TIME. My 15 year old son doesn't go to bed until he says good morning to the sun! He's on the net every night all night and no I don't monitor him. He's an honor roll student, he is in AP classes, he has his friends over occassionally for all night guitar hero parties, and I stay out of the basement while they are here. WHY? Because my son has never broken the trust we have built as a family.
A family that LAUGHS together goes far. This family definitely Laughs together and I laughed with them. I have 5 children plus a couple of "adopted" sons and daughter who have lived with us when things became to bad at their homes. We have played many a practical jokes on each other, they have done things I didn't know about but found out later (not some of the brightest thing in the world but they were funny) but to say this mom needs better parenting skills is CRAZY! If she does, I guess I do too...which is sad because my children are well rounded in life. Four of them are out on their own...either in college, out of college starting their families, in the Air Force, or in decent paying jobs....not a one ever in trouble with the law, school, or anything else of authority. Guess what...the thing this child pulled on the member of Disboards could have easily been something any one of my kids doing it.
PPL IT WAS ALL DONE IN FUN! HE WASN'T GIVING A SOB STORY TO GET PPL TO SEND HIM MONEY OR ITEMS. HE POSTED ABOUT A MATTRESS!
If it would have been a 2,000+ post Dis'er...these comments wouldn't even be happening. It would have been DIS'ers HELPING find a solution.
TO THE MOM OF THIS BOY: KUDOs to you! You can find humor in the little things that run through a 12 yos mind. Laugh and grow with your child because when things do get hard for him (school clicks, someone offering him his first cigarette, etc.) He will KNOW it is OK to come home and talk to you openly because you are building a great foundation by learning to laugh at his mistakes now, all the while leading him down the right path. Don't come down to hard on him....he is a 12 year old learning what life is like....the things he thinks is funny and the reality of pantie bunches.
. This young man was good...the bit about removing a coil...I thought my DH was going to fall out of his chair. Seriously...swallow your pride that you were taken by a 12 year old...if this young man uses his imagination when he starts college. He will go far because by his posts, he can definitely think outside the box!
