Parents of teenagers, poll for you: Beat my son or cut him some slack

My son goes to a high school like most others: good kids and some real bad apples. He decided to leave his backpack shoved under a bench during weights after swimming and got his suit stolen that I just bought YESTERDAY and a $100 calculator.

His thoughts: it's sad we live in a world where we can't trust our fellow man enough to not lock everything up. this was his excuse. My first inclination is to beat him (it's ok. He's 6'2", 175lbs. I'm 5'7". He won't feel a thing), but then I'm wondering if he's beating himself up for both of us. He already lost a bike this way because he trusted his fellow man enough to leave it outside instead of putting it in the garage. This is so ridiculous.

Either way, I'm out around $150 and I'm so POed that I might just implode with anger.

Original Post by coffincritter:

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Although, it IS fun sometimes to just jump in the middle and judge.

 

I wasn't judging her for it, like I said in the post I'm not against corporal punishment. I just personally don't feel this would warrant it, but I wasn't all "you're a bad parent!" or anything. And no, I didn't realize she was kidding. Must be some sort of parental humor that I'll never understand.

 I do not think the original subject of the thread was corporal punishment. I think it was about kids/teens and being responsible. So I guess going off on that tangent takes the thread off-topic a bit. That's all.

Cripes people, can we get a cease fire or a truce or some type of compromise?

PILLOW FIGHT!

Original Post by moonikins:

PILLOW FIGHT!

whatever works monni, geez I think some people thrive on a good or BAD fight. Get out the tar, we can tar and feather them all.

Tar & feather em sounds kinda like a country music song to me. ;)

I'd prefer a marshmallow fight. Something sweet would be nice about now...

whips out marshmallows, now where did I put those sticks.

Original Post by r4eboxer:

whips out marshmallows, now where did I put those sticks.

 Hey..somebody could poke their eye out ! (Unless there are graham crackers, hershey bars and a campfire nearby...)

Original Post by monarch777:

Original Post by r4eboxer:

whips out marshmallows, now where did I put those sticks.

 Hey..somebody could poke their eye out ! (Unless there are graham crackers, hershey bars and a campfire nearby...)

Yep, it's all waiting just need a sing along by the fire. Now lets sing the country music hit "Tar and Feather" for mooni.

Original Post by monarch777:

Original Post by r4eboxer:

whips out marshmallows, now where did I put those sticks.

 Hey..somebody could poke their eye out ! (Unless there are graham crackers, hershey bars and a campfire nearby...)

 Well it is snowing here, so how about some hot chocolate with those marshmallows and a fire in the fireplace? Not that I'm opposed to grahams an chocolate, we can have those with the cocoa. :)

Original Post by kathygator:

 Ha! Spiro! Is that you in the avatar? I thought it was a bad-assed Ellen Barkin until I clicked the exploded view.

I never in a billion years would have pictured you as a blonde! :D

Yup, that's me. I'm so not menacing in real life. I'm the bubbly, happy blonde.

I'm still an internet biatch so don't you forget it >:o

Not really helpful here, but when my brother was 17 or so he was really into pawning stuff (you know, 'cause getting a job would be tooooo hard).  He and a friend ran into a guy in the parking lot of a pawn shop who told them he'd buy whatever they were selling if they met him in some seedy part of town...  So dumb and dumber collect whatever they want to sell and drive down there to meet strange parking lot man.  Needless to say, strange parking lot man steals all of dumb and dumber's stuff, including their pants and shoes (straight off of their bodies).  I think they learned their lesson when they had to spend half the night in the police station in their underwear until i got off work and went and picked them up.

Yeah, teenage boys are dumb ;) 

Original Post by smileandnod:

Not really helpful here, but when my brother was 17 or so he was really into pawning stuff (you know, 'cause getting a job would be tooooo hard).  He and a friend ran into a guy in the parking lot of a pawn shop who told them he'd buy whatever they were selling if they met him in some seedy part of town...  So dumb and dumber collect whatever they want to sell and drive down there to meet strange parking lot man.  Needless to say, strange parking lot man steals all of dumb and dumber's stuff, including their pants and shoes (straight off of their bodies).  I think they learned their lesson when they had to spend half the night in the police station in their underwear until i got off work and went and picked them up.

Yeah, teenage boys are dumb ;) 

That would go beyond beating. I'd kill that kid of mine

Original Post by spirochete:

Original Post by kathygator:

 Ha! Spiro! Is that you in the avatar? I thought it was a bad-assed Ellen Barkin until I clicked the exploded view.

I never in a billion years would have pictured you as a blonde! :D

Yup, that's me. I'm so not menacing in real life. I'm the bubbly, happy blonde.

 

I'm still an internet biatch so don't you forget it >:o

 so not afraid right now.

Original Post by kathygator:

 so not afraid right now.

Haha not afraid...now?

Anyone that can produce the gem "Sounds like someone has sprained their vagina" earns my undying gratitude and eternal respect. Now lighten up on the cyclists, would ya?? Tom's kinda cool. :)

Original Post by kathygator:

Anyone that can produce the gem "Sounds like someone has sprained their vagina" earns my undying gratitude and eternal respect. Now lighten up on the cyclists, would ya?? Tom's kinda cool. :)

I sprained my ex-husbands dick once. He held me in awe after that.