Will I go to hell for thinking that's funny? Only, I just itch to get my hands on that little wiggler.

Great. Just great. Kid, you're tying your own noose for Jack Thompson.

I bet he grows up to be a left-wing blogger.

I'm just wondering how many feet across the room I'd sail if I had said that to my mother when I was 9. Of course, I wouldn't have to because she was a loving, caring mother and always had my frosty glass of motherfucking chocolate milk waiting for me.

His mom should fill that little bastards mouth with liquid hand soap and listen to him try to cuss while she smashes his Xbox into little bits in front of him with a baseball bat.

But she won't. Because her obvious lack of parenting skills has allowed him to be what he is today.

Now get the hell of my lawn!

This is bullshit! Get me my motherfucking chocolate milk.

I just let my child (11 y/o) listen - and informed him that if he ever acted w/in a fraction of that manner, he would watch as I dropped his PS2 from the second story window.

If I'd ever talked like that to my mom, I'd still be unconscious.

And that's if I was lucky.

JohnO,

That was hilarious.

Bitch should've just gotten the damn chocolate milk, as far as I'm concerned.

Wow.
That is a hitting offense. Totally. I can see my mother rushing in the room with a red face and a shoe in her hand right now.

No amount of toys taken away or grounding can achieve the instant attitude adjustment that is absolutely required there.

Unfortunately, I can't hear it because I'm at a worksite with a filter on that URL, but if it's a tenth as bad as it sounds I can only hope it's a joke. Sadly, it probably isn't. Frankly, there's an awful lot of sucky parents out there.

I'm reminded of some Yahoo! news story I stumbled across where a father told the kids that if they kept misbehaving, he would return all their Christmas gifts to the stores. The kids kept misbehaving (context indicated they were completely out of control), he returned the gifts, and somehow it got picked up as an "Oddly Enough" story. The scary thing is that most of the comments on the story talked about what an awful parent he was to ruin Christmas like that. (Granted, too late to do much about an out-of-control house, but better drastic measures than no measures.)

The most insightful comment about parenting I ever heard came from an old colleague back when I was teaching, long before I was a parent: "When you ground the kids, you ground yourself." (He was talking about a family he knew where the parents would ground the kids, then go out all night.) His point, beyond the obvious -- parenting is hard, constant work: a continual struggle to not let things slide (because it's easier to just let it go this once because you're tired), and a balancing act to make sure you're firm, just, fair, and loving.

What the hell is wrong with parents today? I want to know why a parent would let a 9 year old play such a violent game. And the mouth on that kid.... if that was me, everyone listening on Xbox Live would hear what the killing of a child sounds like.

LL, you said a mouthful. And it has to be said that with a severe beating, you get none of those kind of tradeoffs--for the beater it's pretty painless.

If you tell your kids, "Hey, any more of that and we're not going to dinner. We'll sit here and eat crackers." then you have to back it up and I don't like crackers.

But with a brisk ass-pounding, it's over immediately and the tears are all you have to deal with (besides hiding the marks). And rarely are you too tired to whump the shit out of a five-year old.

I bet he got his chocolate milk.
A strong case for retroactive abortion and histerectomies.

If the woman needs an alibi for the time of the murder, I will be more than happy to swear that she was with me.

I'm just wondering how many feet across the room I'd sail if I had said that to my mother when I was 9. Of course, I wouldn't have to because she was a loving, caring mother and always had my frosty glass of motherfucking chocolate milk waiting for me.

I think I may have just wet myself.

Didn't listen to the link, but if my kisd said anything like that to me I'd hand him a small sledge hammer and make him smash his X-Box. Then, I'd beat his ass and send him to bed with no supper, or motherfucking choclate milk.

Exhibit A of the need to repeal all those silly rules that won't let parents (and teachers when necessary) spank kids good and hard. If I had acted that way towards my parents, my Dad would have chopped off my head and stuck it on the wall like a lion trophy, and that would be if he was in a GOOD mood.

I hope his mom makes sure he can't sit comfortably for a month.