Watch out for flying eggs!!!
01-01-2007, 12:17 PM
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Scoggins, I think you have it right....
Too many parents are content to let TV, or the state be the caretaker of their children, and very few seem to lead by example anymore.
While not necessarily having the greatest family life when younger, I did learn the basics very early on, that have stuck with me to this day.
Harmless pranks are one thing. Throwing objects at moving vehicles, I don't care how " young" you are, should involve jail time, either adult, or a juvenile center. Period.
I was running into town here a couple years back, and the city had installed a bed of drain rock beside the highway, near a storm outlet. Well, some little geniuses decided it was cool to throw rocks at passing cars. Sure enough one big dent in the rear passenger door of my truck. Two kids who COULDN'T run faster scared, than I can mad. We had a very frank discussion, followed by another with a friendly cop, followed directly by another with the parents, the kids, and the cop. These kids seem fairly well adjusted now. They worked their butts off to buy me a new door for the truck.
Fast forward, two years, three teens walking along the side of the same chunk of road. I go by, one of them turns and whips a handful of small stones/dirt/snow, that was in the windrow. hits the side of my truck. ONce again, I CAN run faster mad, than they can scared. Got all three, called the cops, they show up, two of the kids were taken home, at which point the parents pulled the " my kids would never do that" routine. although they did admit that the kids were "supposed" to be in the basement, and they had no idea the kids had left. The third kid told the cops to take him to jail, because there was "no way" he was going home with the cops. Guess he had better role models?
Now, we could blame the city for the rock drain being there, or we could blame the local government road crew for sanding the roads when slippery, thus providing the ammunition for these little twits. OR we can help the little buggers take responsibility for their own actions, and teach them about consequences.
Somehow, I think that might be the way to go.
I'msodonethisranthere'syoursoapboxPind
Too many parents are content to let TV, or the state be the caretaker of their children, and very few seem to lead by example anymore.
While not necessarily having the greatest family life when younger, I did learn the basics very early on, that have stuck with me to this day.
Harmless pranks are one thing. Throwing objects at moving vehicles, I don't care how " young" you are, should involve jail time, either adult, or a juvenile center. Period.
I was running into town here a couple years back, and the city had installed a bed of drain rock beside the highway, near a storm outlet. Well, some little geniuses decided it was cool to throw rocks at passing cars. Sure enough one big dent in the rear passenger door of my truck. Two kids who COULDN'T run faster scared, than I can mad. We had a very frank discussion, followed by another with a friendly cop, followed directly by another with the parents, the kids, and the cop. These kids seem fairly well adjusted now. They worked their butts off to buy me a new door for the truck.
Fast forward, two years, three teens walking along the side of the same chunk of road. I go by, one of them turns and whips a handful of small stones/dirt/snow, that was in the windrow. hits the side of my truck. ONce again, I CAN run faster mad, than they can scared. Got all three, called the cops, they show up, two of the kids were taken home, at which point the parents pulled the " my kids would never do that" routine. although they did admit that the kids were "supposed" to be in the basement, and they had no idea the kids had left. The third kid told the cops to take him to jail, because there was "no way" he was going home with the cops. Guess he had better role models?
Now, we could blame the city for the rock drain being there, or we could blame the local government road crew for sanding the roads when slippery, thus providing the ammunition for these little twits. OR we can help the little buggers take responsibility for their own actions, and teach them about consequences.
Somehow, I think that might be the way to go.
I'msodonethisranthere'syoursoapboxPind
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