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Bad parenting story...

My co-irker (the one with three hellion boys and her H is a SAHD but she still parents the kids from work...she really needs a nickname). 

Anyway, her middle child, who is the biggest hellion of them all was at one friends house yesterday and I guess he decided to go to another friends house, which is across a busy road, without checking in with his parents.  He was late coming home, so they started calling around and found him at said friends house. 

She drives over there, spanks the kid in front of his friend and his friends parent(s), and takes him home.  His punishment is that he's basically tethered to her or her H 24/7, except for school.  He can't watch TV that he wants to watch.  He has to watch what she or her H are watching. 

The programming he was forced to watch last night?  The T&A and sex-fest that is "Bachelor Pad". 

He's 7 or 8.   She wouldn't let him go to bed because his brothers were in his room he shares with her oldest watching wrestling and he refused to sleep in the youngest boys room or go in her bedroom and watch "Antiques Roadshow" with her husband.  SO he watched "Bachelor Pad".  *SMDH*

Re: Bad parenting story...

  • WHAT?!

    That was his punishment? How about grounding the kid? No TV, no playing outside, etc? Not an option?
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  • Oh no, she calls this a 'major grounding'.  HA!
  • Zzilla, that's the way Mom did things, too.  And after a spanking, a cramped hand from essay writing and having tv taken away, I never did those things, either.

    Mom also felt that if I wasn't to watch tv, it meant I couldn't be near a tv at all.  I spent my punishment evenings in my room or at the table.
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  • Isn't that show on at like 9 or 10 at night? Why is a 7 or 8 year old not in bed? And if he has older siblings, why aren't they in a separate room if they have a different bedtime? 

    This house sounds like ridiculous chaos. I couldn't handle living there - how can those kids be expected to turn out decently?

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  • [QUOTE]My co-irker (the one with three hellion boys and her H is a SAHD but <strong>she still parents the kids from work</strong>...she really needs a nickname). 
    Posted by mrs.conn23[/QUOTE]

    i cannot imagine how yelling at a kid on the phone = actual parenting.  this sounds like a total fail to me.
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