Extreme Parenting Part 11

I have not done one in a while and this really caught my attention.  A 10-year-old girl from Utah was bullying another child about how she dressed to the point that the little girl no longer wanted to attend school.  Her step mom had a little talk with her.  Apparently that didn’t work very well, so she took it one step further.

One evening she drove to the local thrift store and bought her some clothes and shoes.  The next morning the little fashionista was told that was her wardrobe for the next few days.  In school she was ridiculed, laughed at, and whispered about.  The young girl came home to tell her stepmother that she now understands what she did was wrong.  Although she still had to wear another outfit the next day.

Problem solved.

Good for her.  When she realized that talking wasn’t enough, she decided that step daughter needed to shown the hard way how damaging this is to others.  This may have been the hard way to learn the lesson, but sometimes that is the only way to show your kids the lessons that must be learned to be a happy, healthy, and well-adjusted adult.

I would do this in a heartbeat.

Extreme Parenting Part 10

It seems to me he really needs to be in school.

Extreme Parenting Part 9

I want to start out by saying that I love ya and I’m not trying to embarrass you. Before you do anything else click the star in the upper right hand corner of internet explorer which is already pulled up and then click back on the icon to the right of the skype symbol in your toolbar to pull this page back up. —————————————> That history is the reason that you got that scamware and all the other crap on your computer. I want to tell you that it’s ok. Listen, I was 13 once too and it wasn’t so long ago that I don’t remember. I’m not mad or anything. It’s life and I did it too. I just want you to know that most of those sites are places that can and will ruin your computer. You were actually lucky that it only did what it did. There are viruses and other scamware that can completly ruin a computer and I can’t afford to buy you another 1800 dollar machine because you went to a site that fried it.

There are sites that are completely safe and you can go on them and not have your computer turned into a piece of junk. You can go to these sites and not screw up your computer. Don’t click on any links taking you to other sites and please only go to these. Ninty percent of porn sites have crap that can brick a computer.

[editor: links omitted]

Listen, I won’t tell your mom and I’m not gonna make a big deal out of this. In fact I’m not gonna make any size deal out of it. If you don’t wanna talk about it that’s fine and I completely understand. I’ve been on this earth three times as long as you and there’s nothing you have done or will do that I haven’t done before. If you want to completely ignore this ever happened then I can and will do that too. Please don’t act awkward around me because of this. You have nothing to be embarrassed about. I just can’t have an 1800 dollar machine turned into a brick because you haven’t learned where to go on the internet. I’m not going to put a child lock on your computer or punish you in any way because as I said you did nothing wrong. I would like you to not be back here so much though. You literally spend all of your time back here. I’d like to see you more often. I like doing stuff with you and miss it.

I love you and I couldn’t be more proud of you.

Now, I would think that finding porn on your 13-year-old son’s computer would be a sticky thing to deal with.  But I don’t think that this is way to handle it.  At no time did he tell this child the huge difference between sex, love-making, and porn.  I understand not wanting to embarrass your child.  As a child I had a mother who embarrassed me often, so I know that isn’t effective parenting.  But I have to think that being more worried about a computer than your child’s well-being isn’t being a good parent either.  Now, even if you are one of those people who dismisses the evidence that porn is unhealthy to relationships, you must admit that it certainly would give a 13-year-old unrealistic expectations of what sex is.  That isn’t the real world.  Porn has no relationship to how real women view sex and it turns them into an object.

Big time parent fail on this one.  Big time.  Since this is making the rounds on the internet, I would say the chances are good that Mom is going to find out.  Let us hope she does a better job of dealing with this than dad has.  Giving your 13-year-old safe porn sites?  Oh my.
H/T to The Good Men Project

Extreme Parenting Part 8

LOL, I love this mom.

Extreme Parenting Part 7

Love these parents.

 

Extreme Parenting Part 6

I may have used slightly different wording, but I dont’ see anything wrong with this.

H/T Iain’s Wife

Extreme Parenting Part 5

I would not do this. This is a bridge to far for me. While I understand that her parents are trying to get her to see the seriousness of her actions, talking about your child’s sex life in public is just wrong.  Jasmine is 15 years old.

Extreme Parenting Part 4

This Indiana mom has a son who is in trouble with the law.  He was caught and brought into juvenile court.  The judge gave him some community service hours, but nothing else.  Mom is not happy with that punishment and feels it doesn’t go far enough in her helping her son understand the gravity of the choices he is making.

She is hoping this may help.

Extreme?

She obviously loves her boy and wants what is best for his future.  He looks horrified.  I guess it depends on how far gone he is with his troubles.  But, she got him to do this, so I would say there is hope.  When you are trying to save a child from drugs, extreme is a relative word.

 

Extreme Parenting Part 4

LOVE THIS!!!!

What a great idea.  It teaches your children about consequences and how the world really works, if you want something you need to earn it.