CreativeDominant -> RE: Rioting is the answer (8/30/2014 10:23:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD Being aware at some level does not automatically translate into admitting it publicly. I have to give her pass on this one. I have seen parents who could see their kid doing bad stuff and deny to themselves that it happened. There was a case, maybe a year or two ago, I don't remember the details, and the mother was enduring the obligatory after-the-fact interview. She loved her son very much, she said. He had been a wonderful kid, and had brought her much joy. But he had started hanging around with some very bad fellows. She had done her best, she had discouraged and she had forbidden. But he wouldn't listen, and she knew that he would come to no good end. She was very sorry, she said, for what he had done. I can't put into words how much I admired her courage and honesty. I am sick of watching mothers primp for the camera and whine on cue about what a "good boy" the thug was. In my opinion, parents like that are part of the reason why we have so many of them. K. I think that it is an unfortunate combination of the "victim" mentality and the "if I raise him/her to think they're the best, they'll be the best (must build their self-esteem, reason for it or not)" mentality. Sadly, the reality in most cases is that they are not...in fact, they wind up as something less than the best. It's hard for these types of parents to face up to the reality of what their children are vs what their mothers "see" them as.
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