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stealing from school

Just got a phone call from the school that David goes to.  Evidently he got caught stealing an electronic dictionary from the school.  They are going to give him consequences.

Um yeah.  Consequences.  These are the ones that don’t work…

  1. apologize.
  2. time out.
  3. write down what you did and why.
  4. no more access to the device.
  5. loss of privileges.
  6. loss of recess activities.
  7. restriction.
  8. pat down searches.

Very few discipline methods that they could give would be effective.

In other news, the teacher informed me that David had been “glorifying” the concept that he could steal anything from anybody and get away with it. So they are giving him a time out and just wanted me to be aware of the situation.

“Oh and by the way, did you know that David was evidently taking an mp3 player to school?” they asked.

“yeah we know about that.  no, he didn’t have permission.” I replied.

Do they not read the documentation that was provided regarding David being a kleptomaniac?  I mean seriously… one of the things that triggers his stealing is electronic devices.

In other news, David’s admission to placement is in limbo because they didn’t finish all of the paperwork.

They called me this morning and asked me about dates of hospitalization.  Evidently they didn’t want to read through his medical records to get that information.

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A Story of True Parental Courage–Not Sure I’ve Got It in Me to Do the Same

The news is filled with stories of people who make the most atrocious parenting decisions.And it’s easy to make fun of them.  But every once in a while there’s a story that makes me sit up and wonder whether I’d have the courage to do the same thing.

Sue Lewis is a mom in the UK whose 24-year old son confessed to her that he’d been involved in a murder. “As a mother I wanted to protect my son — I’d have done anything for him,” she said in an interview in The Sun newspaper. Lewis’ son, Jimi, and some friends killed a young man they thought had slept with Jimi’s girlfriend.

“I felt sick — my own flesh and blood, capable of such a horrific murder…,” she said. “I was carrying the weight of knowing what Jimi had done and I knew I had an impossible decision to make.” Her decision? To report her son to the police.

As parents we all wonder what we would do in a similar situation–and we’re damned glad that the chance are extremely slim that we’d ever have to find out.
One of my daughters (now 19) and I had a few really tough years and I worried that she’d get herself into some real trouble. Fortunately, that never happened (although she did just get a small tattoo). But even in my most nightmarish fantasies, I never had any doubt that I would defend my daughter every step of the way. After reading Sue Lewis’ story, I can’t honestly say I would have turned my daughter in. And I don’t mean anything critical of Lewis at all. She did the right thing, no question.  But I’m not sure I’ve got the strength of character to do the same.
What would you do if your child confessed to a murder?

 



Armin Brott

 

Armin Brott

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