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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2004, 12:51:00 AM »
Enough money for high dollar booze, but can't afford Hooked On Phonics????

On a serious note - it's really sad when parents have to seek sheer REVENGE on their kids, rather than acknowledging and dealing with the CAUSE of their supposed "acting out".  Way to go - your kid pissed you off by drinking your Dom... so you tell the story on... EBAY???   :wstupid:


Mom sounds like a real winner.   :cry2:
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2004, 02:56:00 AM »
Sounds like me when I was a kid...and my mother was a mean bitch..

 Yeah they arent going to look into the root of the problem...and with parents like that no wonder hes drinking...just wait till hes 17 and discovers the needle  :eek:  :eek:
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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2004, 12:28:00 PM »
"Here is the story: This weekend my 13 year old son decided to be destructive, deceptive and disobedient. ..."

Doesn't this sound like a direct quote from Parents' group? I'm tempted to write to the kid and tell him to run for his life.

What is this new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine or public housing, regards as heinous any challenge to what is called the system of private enterprise, identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete. The concept of loyalty as conformity is a false one. It is narrow and restrictive, denies freedom of thought and conscience... What do men know of loyalty who make a mockery of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights?
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« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2004, 02:28:00 PM »
The Power of Nonviolence - Dr. Arun Gandhi
 
Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, in his June 9 lecture at the
University of Puerto Rico, shared the following story as an example of nonviolence in parenting:  "I was 16 years old and living with
my parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of Durban, South Africa, in the middle of the sugar plantations.  We were deep in the country and had no neighbors, so my two sisters and I would always look forward to going to town to visit friends or go to the movies.  One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance.
 
Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in town, my father asked me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting the car serviced. When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, 'I will meet you here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home together.'
 
After hurriedly completing my chores, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre.  I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that
I forgot the time.  It was 5:30 before I remembered.  By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my father was
waiting for me, it was almost 6:00.
 
He anxiously asked me, 'Why are you late?' I was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, 'The car wasn't ready, so I had to wait,' not realizing that he had already called the garage.
 
When he caught me in the lie, he said: 'There's something wrong in the way I brought you up that didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth.  In order to figure out where I went wrong with you, I'm going to walk the walk home 18 miles and think about it.'
 
So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads.  I couldn't leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered.  I decided then and there that I was never going to lie again.
 
I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learned a lesson at all.  I don't think so.  I would have suffered the punishment and gone on doing the same thing.  But this single nonviolent action was so powerful that it is still as if it happened yesterday.  That is the power of nonviolence.
 
Copyright Dr. Arun Gandhi
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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2004, 02:54:00 PM »
Check out this thread on Struggling Teens where a couple of Program Parents are actually congratulating this mom for her "chutzpah".  One even suggested they contact the mom and let her know about the ST parent support group.  Scary how these PP's are soooooo quick to spot a desperate parent and lure them into their stepford (oops, I mean support) group.  :scared:

http://www.strugglingteens.com/cgi-bin/ ... 2;t=000803
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2004, 04:22:00 PM »
I finally got around to clicking on the links, and see that the congratulations for this ebay mom came from "mose" on strugglingteens.com.  FWIW, this MOSE woman has had a kid in [I think] a WWASPS program a couple of years ago, and now spends a great part of her days posting on strugglingteens, having nearly 3000 posts to her record.  She seldom speaks of her own daughter, and how it all came out.  She is the Ultimate Authority on sending your kid off, though.  She also can be counted on to jump in and recommend or commend anyone who's wavering..."...send 'em off, they deserve it". When I was posting on strugglineteens, I began to respond to the "send 'em off" messages with vague warnings that *all* TBS's may not be as wonderful as those these ST parents were using [couldn't use any specific programs names, as bashing WWASPS a year ago had started a 300-post war and the forum therefore banned specifics].  Mose would come unglued (like our ever-present Arizona WWASPie who will, I'm sure, jump on this very post).  Mose would attack me, saying I just didn't want help for children as much as she did.  Mostly, half-a-dozen other regular posters would come to my defense, all of them knowing that my personal situation was with a destructive and abusive WWASPS facility.  Jena, the moderator, wrote mose and me privately, reminding us not to argue.  The upshot?  Strugglingteens.com came up with the whistle-blower icon at the end of each post, most probably so Jena could be warned and pull posts quickly.  I quit watching the board after I got my kid home.  

There will always be such hateful people.  One thing we citizens can do is to make it impossible to privately incarcerate your child by making it impossible for these gulags to provide such service. Rampant speaking out in group!
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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2004, 10:39:00 PM »
I was  sad to hear that this Mose woman shares the great state of New York with me. This 13 year old  could be in serious danger. This Mom has opened the door and the vultures are entering.  Hopefully this mom won't let them leave with her son.
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« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2004, 12:18:00 PM »
These ST parents need to get a life and stop intruding into the personal lives of children and families they KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.  As for the Ebay Mom, her shameless sales and marketing approach tells me she is a classic MOMSTER and I do hope her son does not trip the wire and end up in one of these lock-down behavior modification programs.
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« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2004, 12:53:00 AM »
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On 2004-06-14 09:18:00, Anonymous wrote:

...classic MOMSTER and I do hope her son does not trip the wire and end up in one of these lock-down behavior modification programs. "


LOL Love the phrase!
And I'm with you on that.  Wish we could get the word out.  Hey... D.A.R.E. preaches in the schools - maybe we should have M.A.R.E - "Momster Awareness - Really Evil (propogranda)"

JMHO :wave:
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