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Mom Sells Son's Car After Finding Alcohol
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I don't think an employer is not going to hire someone because they had a little incident with alcohol when they were 19. If that were a hiring requirement, you'd have nobody to hire.
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What's worse, him getting pulled over for speeding or being stupid and the cop finding the alcohol, or his mom catching him and selling the car. I would take my mom finding it anyday and selling the car vs. the police report in the paper, loss of insurance potential, higher insurance premiums, added to the criminal record, etc.
Methinks a criminal record would make it harder to find a job than your name being dropped in an embarrassing automobile ad...
I completely agree. You buy the car, you make the rules. He broke the rules, sell the car, that's not a big deal to me. I don't see any reason to publicly humilate the kid. I mean this made national news. Public humilation doesn't make people better and it never has.
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So I talked to some friends at Briar Cliff University and this is what they told me. Apparently he is being flown out to be on Leno and the Today Show and hasnt been in class this week. So he is getting pretty good treatment with just a little embarassment. 15 minutes of fame for being a dumbass.
So I talked to some friends at Briar Cliff University and this is what they told me. Apparently he is being flown out to be on Leno and the Today Show and hasnt been in class this week. So he is getting pretty good treatment with just a little embarassment. 15 minutes of fame for being a dumbass.
Disciplining her son = Great Idea.
Publicly humiliating him and making it all about her = Horrible Idea.
If I were in his shoes, I would take my money from Leno, get a job, buy a car and tell her to shove off. Apparently she doesn't get enough attention thrown her way by just being a radio host.
Now if I were him and she and told me PRIVATELY that I had made a grave error and it was going to cost me my car, then I would probably have learned a valuable lesson.
Publicly humiliating him and making it all about her = Horrible Idea.
If I were in his shoes, I would take my money from Leno, get a job, buy a car and tell her to shove off. Apparently she doesn't get enough attention thrown her way by just being a radio host.
Now if I were him and she and told me PRIVATELY that I had made a grave error and it was going to cost me my car, then I would probably have learned a valuable lesson.
Since this is being widely discussed I guess it is newworthy but to me it's not newsworthy - yet another reason why I stopped getting the DM Rag:smile:
Its newsworthy because there is nothing else to talk about. Politics suck and get old. Hasnt been a super big tragedy lately. Writers are on strike. And no large meth labs have blown up lately.
So was there still booze in the bottle? If there was still booze in the bottle it would lead me to ask why? Maybe he was "recycling" the bottle.
You're spot on with this one. Good Lord, the Mother's gonna leave the ad on for another week or so for the feedback? That's weird. Hopefully her relationship with her son is such that she knows he will handle the humiliation fine.
I'd probably have been more firm with my child, but kept the publicity out of the picture.
I was watching ABC's newscast, and apparently this story is the headline for Good Morning America. Both the mom and son are apparently going to be there on Thursday morning... Sheesh.
Yeah, both mother and son were on Good Morning America this morning. It was pretty short and nothing profound. I do have to give props to the mom, but I can't imagine what was going through the son's mind during the show.
While I don't really agree with how the mother handled the content of her ad, I do applaud her firm handed discipline.
Hopefully the spot(s) on national tv will give more parents a little backbone in dealing with their kids' bad behaviors. We all probably know more than a few parents who could use some...
I guess we're going to disagree here. I'm down with her taking away the car and selling it. He broke the rules, punish him. But the public humiliation is out of bounds, in my opinion.
I think having a positive relationship with you're children is important. I'm not saying they have to be best friends, but it has be more than an adversarial relationship. How likely is he to listen to her advice if he's convinced she's a callous *****?
But if they are going to do the talk show circuit together, there probably isn't too much damage to the relationship.
