My wife and I were at the corner bar the other night (two blocks away) when we got a call from my son. He said that someone called and threatened to blow up the house!
Well! Of course, me and the wife ruch home, call 911 and wait for a response. TWO squadcars show up and we get statements fromt both MY son and his best friend. As I had done the *69 thing, I had a telephone number.
An hour later, I get a call from my daughter, who was over at a friends house, telling me that SHE had made a prank phone call, but there was NEVER anything said about a bomb.
Anybody wanna guess how long my son is grounded for?
If I have MY way, forever.
I tried to explain that the courts take a VERY dim view of bomb threats and that I could actually **go to jail[/] for it but it just doesn’t seem to sink in.
FUCKING KIDS ARE SOMETIMES JUST NOT WORTH IT
That said, I LOVE my kids and don’t wanna change things but jeeeezzzzzzzzz…
Clarifications, please. How old is your son? How old is your daughter? Was your daughter the originator of the prank call? Is it her word against your son’s that no bomb was mentioned?
If my daughter was caught making a prank call, I’d hesitate to believe her statements about what she did or did not say.
No problem. My son is 12. He has a tendency to emulate my ex-wife, ie, to lie about everything. My daughter that made the call is 13 and believable. She absolutely HATES a lie of any sort. From what SHE said, it was all a lot of peer pressure. So, she made a prank call, for which she’s grounded for a week.
Now then, my son has been caught in so many lies that it isn’t funny at all. If you see him grab something and then confront him with it, he’ll say it wasn’t him. I’m gonna have to get him into some kind of therapy.
Tough situation. You didn’t ask for advice, so I won’t give any. But I will say that I’ve had patients that age with problems with habitual lying, and some responded very well to the combination of both antidepressants and counseling.
Hmm, a mention of an ex-wife, A daughter who doesn’t lie, and an evil son who is the spawn of satan. Tell me about your father.
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Hmm, its also possible that the reason your son gets into so much trouble is that the intelligent, manipulative daughter sets him up in situations where he takes the blame, corrupting his record further and further, untill anytime something happens the blame automatically falls to him. It is something MY sister used to do. And of course I was the epitamy of kindness and goodness, and did no wrongs or evils whatsoever.
One just has to be careful before believing anybody is without fault in this world. All humans(there are a few exceptions) are manipulative, and selfish. It is human nature.
Siblings will do anything to get each other in trouble.
My friend childhood Kevin used to get called to dinner and it was frowned upon for him to not come in promptly. When his sister would call him in, she’d stand on the porch and yell KEEEEEEEVIN! KEEEEEEEEVIN! at the top of her lungs. Even after she could see him come running from my yard, she kept it up. She made it sound like he was at the far ends of the earth and wasn’t responding. God it pissed him off.
The problem with grounding, I think, is that the being sorry part wears off long before the punishment does. He starts to focus on how “unfair” it is. I strongly recommend that if it’s a, say, three week grounding, you make him revisit the “crime” each week and realize that stuff like requires reparations and accountability. For example, during the first week, he has to draft an apology letter to the police for wasting their time. During the second week, make him call the station and find which officers were involved. During the third week, make him hand-deliver those letters, properly addressed to the right officers, to the station. Something like that.
I know this girl well. She babysits my kids. She’s a great girl, and I really do like her. However, I am also inclined to believe that she caved to the peer pressure and made the phone call. I’m also very inclined to believe that she did NOT say anything about a bomb, and if I find out differently, I would be utterly shocked. The girl is just not the kind to set anyone up like that. She’s got her limits, even under peer pressure.
Hey Xploder: is it safe for me to assume that it won’t be that daughter sitting for my kids this Saturday?
