Oops!

[quidditchgrrl]

One more thing to mark off on the parenting checklist...allowing your teenager to take your other three small children on errands.

Here at the library said teenager decided he needed some time alone. So he left his three siblings in the car, two of them still strapped into their car seats, while he perused the Internet inside the building.

You know, it's *checks weather.com* 21 degrees outside. Little brother got cold and decided to come in, which set the whole ball in motion. It took twenty minutes to find big brother, who didn't seem to be upset about it.

Both son (who left with the police and his sibs before his mom got here) and mom were pretty damn belligerent about the whole thing. *whaps*

*shakes head* My brothers used to take me drag racing with them on the weekends my parents work. And mom and dad would leave us in the car while they went in for milk at the store.

I think the world has changed, don't you? Egad, people are stupid.

Just thought it might make your day...

Comments

[authenticjoy.livejournal.com]

That's just it. You can't really blame the teenager, but you have to, or he will never learn.

Whose job is it to teach him that responsibility? It's his parent's job and clearly that lesson is not being taught if Mom became belligerent over being caught in her own act of irresponsibility.

So who is going to teach him?

It's a hard old world, Dude.

I could feel a bit for her, except that she became angry herself, you know? She tried her kid out - Gave him responsibility. That's something good. It didn't work out this time. Punish the older kid, teach, and move on. Be thankful that someone is looking out for your younger kids.

This is the concept of 'it takes a village'. The librarians gave the police a heads up that there were kids alone in the car on a 21*F day. The cops rode to the rescue and the kids didn't turn into popsicles. That's the concept of 'village'.

Somehow the concept of 'village' has been turned into making sure that kids never hear the word 'fuck' uttered in public.

Um, no. Not quite the concept.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yes, there seems to be this new-fangled concept that you don't have to *teach* your children anything, they'll learn by osmosis, and it's other people's job to ensure the little darlings only learn good things. Rrr.

And yes, it *is* the Village of Worthington. ;)