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Partenting Tip from the Child-FREE: If you drive your child to a fight another child, practice at home first.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 7:16AM Gina, The Blogmother
We are renaming our Parenting Tips from the Childless series to Parenting Tips from the ChildFREE. A WAOD reader aptly pointed out that those of us without extra mouths to feed and exemptions to claim on our tax returns are not "less" anything.
I saw this over at CNN.com they took a break fromt heir 24-hour reporting of Caylee Anthony to bring us this gem.
When I saw this headline, I just knew it was my people. But nope. Surprise Surprise. We can't claim responsibility for this one. 31 year old mother (hmm doing the math) took her 12 year old daughter to the park to fight another girl because the other girl was "talking stuff." The other girl puts the smack down on the daughter so the mother, who is not a small person, drags the other girl off of ther daughter by the ponytail and slaps her.
Here is your parenting tip from the childFREE.. if your child had the ability or the inclination to beat down another girl for "talking stuff" she would have already done that without your assistance. To the extent that your child hasn't gotten in a fight it is likely because they A) Don't want to or B) Are unable to. IF you are going to go to a public place with a large gathering of children and adults, so your child can demonstrate their fighting prowess, I suggest you practice at home first. Just because you have the heart of a street brawler, does not mean your children do. Thus when you drag them to the park to humiliate another child with a public flogging, you risk your own child being embarrassed... on national television. Because in addition to not having the ability to fight other than assuming the fetal position as another girl pummels her into the ground,you child is now humiliated because she A) got beat down in front of her peers and B) she got beat down in front of her mother.
Kids, if you have a mentally unstable mother with violent tendencies, the next time she asks "How was your day," just answer in the universal language of children who want their parents to go away and say "aight," "fine," and "okay." Do not under any circumstances tell your mama "Some girl was 'talking stuff' bout me."
This ends our Parenting Tip From the Childfree. Until next time, remember- Crappy Parents Aren't Born... They're Raised.
I saw this over at CNN.com they took a break fromt heir 24-hour reporting of Caylee Anthony to bring us this gem.
When I saw this headline, I just knew it was my people. But nope. Surprise Surprise. We can't claim responsibility for this one. 31 year old mother (hmm doing the math) took her 12 year old daughter to the park to fight another girl because the other girl was "talking stuff." The other girl puts the smack down on the daughter so the mother, who is not a small person, drags the other girl off of ther daughter by the ponytail and slaps her.
Here is your parenting tip from the childFREE.. if your child had the ability or the inclination to beat down another girl for "talking stuff" she would have already done that without your assistance. To the extent that your child hasn't gotten in a fight it is likely because they A) Don't want to or B) Are unable to. IF you are going to go to a public place with a large gathering of children and adults, so your child can demonstrate their fighting prowess, I suggest you practice at home first. Just because you have the heart of a street brawler, does not mean your children do. Thus when you drag them to the park to humiliate another child with a public flogging, you risk your own child being embarrassed... on national television. Because in addition to not having the ability to fight other than assuming the fetal position as another girl pummels her into the ground,you child is now humiliated because she A) got beat down in front of her peers and B) she got beat down in front of her mother.
Kids, if you have a mentally unstable mother with violent tendencies, the next time she asks "How was your day," just answer in the universal language of children who want their parents to go away and say "aight," "fine," and "okay." Do not under any circumstances tell your mama "Some girl was 'talking stuff' bout me."
This ends our Parenting Tip From the Childfree. Until next time, remember- Crappy Parents Aren't Born... They're Raised.
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Reader Comments (6)
First, I'm as repulsed by the constant replay of the fight in this vid as I am by the incident itself.
Secondly, did I hear this "panel" correctly? Are they blaming feminists and/or feminism for for this foolishness?
You have got to be kidding me! I would still be in my Magistrate Manual looking for charges to hit this lady with because of the felonious assault of a minor and for providing such a deleterious influence on her poor daughter alone! What a message to send to a twelve year-old. This goes beyond contributing to the delinquency of a minor which is only a class A misdemeanor, but I would hit her with felonies.
When her daughter ends up in juvenile for this type of continued behavior, she'll just have to go see her during visiting hours. Then, in addition, they only charged the mother with Corporal injury to a child? They gotta be kidding. She would get a high bond (yeah a judge might knock it down, but I would not want her initial contact behind bars to be pleasant or convenient). Can you imagine? Taking your daughter to fight and then because your daughter gets the beat down, you jump in ----- removing the false semblance that this was a fair fight in the first place. Don't know what they can do about the onlookers. Have to look up VA statutes.
Practice at home? Oh no, the daughter would be removed from the until the mom underwent a parenting course in which she participated fully and ended with making a speech to the youngsters at her daughters on other ways to work out issues or problems. Yep, this lady's parenting card would be revoked!
PS: I'm glad that we weren't talking Shanicqua, Tashanna and She'Nene here. OMG, its Becky, Megan and Shirley.
He made specific reference to your more extreme feminism as contributing to such behavior and I think that he has a point. Modern feminists have contributed to the lessening value of our girls. We look at "our daughters" today as we look at men. Dog eat dog. You're on your own.
The psychologist said something very important: “Women are being treated more as objects and, they’re even starting to see themselves as unworthy of any kind of elevated dignity.” That really stuck out in my mind and I thought it was very relevant. Than he kind of blames feminism which I didn’t really get or think was necessary.
All I can say is WOW. Babies raising babies kinda sums it up. Not saying that all teen/young mom's have this mentality, but a good percent do just because THEY were never taught. Couldn't the onlookers be charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor?
Someone clearly needs parenting skills training and anger management training. Who in their right mind as an ADULT would drag their child somewhere to fight, then proceed to pummel the child who was winning the fight?
This is one of the reasons why our girls are headed in the wrong direction - their stupid ass parents clearly have ridiculous notions of what it is to be a parent.
How nice it is to be childfree. :-)