Mom drops off arguing kids - good or bad?

[Sonny Limatina]

She shouldn'ta done it, but I gotta say this...White Plains ain't BedStuy, Brooklyn. Some people really need to step their heads out of their comfort zones if they think walking three miles in White Plains is a discipline.

Word.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

did they know the area? did she stop just out of sight? {because how else did the 12y/o 'catch up' to a car?}

Actually, she caught up because her real name is 'Dashette'
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and she didn't let her deadweight 10 year old sister hold her back.

Because she's a rich mentally unstable bitch's kid

and that's how they roll.

 

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ten.
you fucking idiot.

pardon?

 

[Le Jacquelope]

When I was a kid, in the sticks...maybe.

Too many pervs on the road now a days.

Bad call.

Ya think?

Damn, I thought GBers were stupid, but this is straight up parenting 101 epic fail.

 

[Recidiva]

She shouldn'ta done it, but I gotta say this...White Plains ain't BedStuy, Brooklyn. Some people really need to step their heads out of their comfort zones if they think walking three miles in White Plains is a discipline.

Exactly how hard should a 10 year old have it?

Three pervs? Four pervs? No good sense of direction?

Let's determine just exactly how hard a 10 year old with no boundaries or sense of discipline should have it before she gets let loose to "learn" from it.

 

[rosco rathbone]

White Plains is a major built-up area.

It's not suburbia.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

White Plains is a major built-up area.

It's not suburbia.

Does it matter?

Is any place safe for you to throw your kids out of the car and drive off?

Name me one place on Earth where nothing bad can happen to your kids if you abandon them like that?

 

[bronzeage]

Yeah, yeah, I know. She's a horrible Mom etc. But... when I was a kid three miles wasn't that far to walk home from.

Does this justify her losing contact with her children? Does it depend on the neighborhood she dumped them out in, whether they knew their way home or not and the time of day?

What are your thoughts on this?

(link to entire article... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517437,00.html )

All of that matters.

When my daughters were 10 years old, I would not have let either of them walk 3 miles unescorted on city streets.

The law may be harsh, but it was written for people who leave children unattended and in danger. The level of danger is debatable, but they were unattended. A responsible judge will have to assign a social worker to check out the home and see if this is an isolated incident, or a pattern. That is the way it is, when you bring government and the law into one's personal life.

The law is one size fits all solution. Sometimes its too tight, but what are going to do?

 

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Exactly how hard should a 10 year old have it?

Three pervs? Four pervs? No good sense of direction?

Let's determine just exactly how hard a 10 year old with no boundaries or sense of discipline should have it before she gets let loose to "learn" from it.

if it was a strange area, fair enough, but hell, my kid knew her way home in inner london at the age of three. You really think a 10 yo wouldn't know their way home from three miles away?

 

[rosco rathbone]

Does it matter?

Is any place safe for you to throw your kids out of the car and drive off?

Name me one place on Earth where nothing bad can happen to your kids if you abandon them like that?

I agree, just saying that it's not even questionable. It's basically the north Bronx.

 

[paganangel]

pardon?

thought so.

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ten years old!

(tomorrow we'll work on 11 through 20.)

 

[Sharon_]

No, I didn't threw them out of the car, but lord knows I wanted too.
I laughed when I first readed the story... but then realizing how young the girls were.. its a terrible story... being a single parent is a tough job but I think the mother lost her mind.... feel sorry for the girls

Bah.

Our bus driver once kicked the whole lot of us off the bus (and rightly so), and about 20 of us had up to a 3 mile walk home....windy, curvy country road--no sidewalks. If memory serves, we were between 14-18.

Like someone else said, depends on the age of the kids, type of neighborhoods they had to walk home thru and I would hope at 10 and 12 they knew how to get home from three miles away. The 12 yo needs to be grounded for running off and leaving the 10 yo alone, tho'.

 

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thought so.

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ten years old!

(tomorrow we'll work on 11 through 20.)

10 year olds are still babies where you live huh?

I knew that you lot were infantilised to a large degree but that is ridiculous. Are you still in nappies?

 

[paganangel]

if it was a strange area, fair enough, but hell, my kid knew her way home in inner london at the age of three. You really think a 10 yo wouldn't know their way home from three miles away?

you think that's all that matters?
please god tell me you don't have kids.

 

[paganangel]

10 year olds are still babies where you live huh?

I knew that you lot were infantilised to a large degree but that is ridiculous. Are you still in nappies?

so baby or adult.
gotcha.
fucking idiot.

 

[Delicacy]

Does it matter?

Is any place safe for you to throw your kids out of the car and drive off?

Name me one place on Earth where nothing bad can happen to your kids if you abandon them like that?

It's pretty damn safe in Juneau, Alaska.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

if it was a strange area, fair enough, but hell, my kid knew her way home in inner london at the age of three. You really think a 10 yo wouldn't know their way home from three miles away?

I can see that this thread is going to devolve into better-parent-than-thou self-righteousness, but:

It was terrible parenting. It was an awful choice, and mom should have handled it better.

People in Southern Westchester are generally horrid, entitled vapors, and I have no sympathy for mom simply by virtue of being one of them.

Having said all that...it's the Mall in While Plains. The thing is bigger than most small towns. I will bet you a house in Scarsdale that one or both of them knew the way to and from the mall, on foot, alone.

Yes, it made them vulnerable to pervs. Exactly as vulnerable as every other time they leave the house alone to go to the mall.

Was it the best choice? No. But how many of them are, if we're honest?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Exactly how hard should a 10 year old have it?

Three pervs? Four pervs? No good sense of direction?

Let's determine just exactly how hard a 10 year old with no boundaries or sense of discipline should have it before she gets let loose to "learn" from it.

If they were that so far cushioned that the slightest gust of wind would break them, then they need a better sense of home community awareness and that mother needs to enforce a sea change in their upbringing and her parenting.

The dropping off was wrong, boneheaded move. Still, when I was that age and even younger, I was walking farther than that coming home after school in the inner city where it was liable for me to get jacked or even worse. White Plains is the kind of area you can go trick or treating in and not worry about people putting needles in the candy bars for yuks. Those girls should know their home surroundings from a better perspective than the backseat of an SUV.

 

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you think that's all that matters?
please god tell me you don't have kids.

ermmm I just said I did, you fuckwit.

so baby or adult.
gotcha.
fucking idiot.

ahhh so you are a baby trapped in a man's body. Poor baby. come back when the meds, meth or booze have freed up a few brain cells so you can interact on an adult basis

 

[rosco rathbone]

White Plains ain't all nice. Some of it is, some isn't.

 

[paganangel]

ermmm I just said I did, you fuckwit.



ahhh so you are a baby trapped in a man's body. Poor baby. come back when the meds, meth or booze have freed up a few brain cells so you can interact on an adult basis

well good luck. i hear after the first kid is raped it gets easier.

 

[retd]

When I was a kid, "wait till your father comes did it for me" and no He never hit us the threat was enough.

 

[Recidiva]

if it was a strange area, fair enough, but hell, my kid knew her way home in inner london at the age of three. You really think a 10 yo wouldn't know their way home from three miles away?

Depends on the ten year old.

Whether or not she'd make it depends on who is on the streets.

The main issue is not whether or not the kid can handle it. This is a parent who clearly can't handle kids. Not in a sane manner.

She makes threats she can't or shouldn't carry out, for one thing.

 

[where]

well good luck. i hear after the first kid is raped it gets easier.

given that most kids are sexually abused by someone close to them, maybe we should have them all living with strangers.

You really are a bit of a... god... first time ever using the word on here... retard

 

[Le Jacquelope]

you think that's all that matters?
please god tell me you don't have kids.

well good luck. i hear after the first kid is raped it gets easier.

Oh, snap! Kybele saves herself from a paganangel smackdown by kicking herself between the goalposts!