Re: When parenting goes wrong....
0k so...the kid may have bipolar or antisocial complex or whatever neurological impairment. Schools are now on the lookout for these things but there are huge signs at home that parents need to be aware of. I mean come on...wearing nothing but black. Listening to "death and destruction" music. Posting death to classmates. Getting made fun of and ostrasized. So yeah, maybe mom or dad comes home from work all cheery and happy and takes the kid out to the zoo or to a pizza place...but do they LOOK at what the kid is doing on the internet? What types of things (like GUNS) that are accumulating in the kids room?
I dont care whether these things are the result of a neurological impariment or the result of incessant put-downs by peers. They need to be seen, heard and treated by parents, by teachers, by consultants and by peers. It truly does take avillage to raise a child an no child should be left out of the process. These kids were. Mom and dad were too busy earning more money to buy nicer things and they didnt even see that their kid had an arsenal accumulating IN.HIS.BEDROOM.
Sad.