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"very mad mother" (Original Post)
kpete
Jun 2013
OP
We'd all be in better shape if all parents stood up to their kids like this
lindysalsagal
Jun 2013
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Tikki
(14,557 posts)1. Actually, I think the kid got off easy. Not a mean mother, just a mother.
Tikki
colorado_ufo
(5,733 posts)2. Actually, an awesome mother
who probably saved her kid's life. Sixteen and a DUI? Time for that sit-down talk. And a lot of community service. For which he will have to take the bus or have Mommy drive him there.
Needs a lesson in common sense and humility. And gratitude that he had a nice truck at 16.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)3. I hope he lives long enough to be
Grateful to his mother for being hard on him and realizing that just because he's old enough to drive, it doesn't mean he's mature enough to drive.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)4. Hell, I may call her to thank her. nt
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)5. The child was apparently not mature enough to have a car.
Let's hope he will be in a couple of years. The mother's action is appropriate, not "mean".
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)6. When I was sixteen my mother was the dumbest woman on the planet
By the time I turned twenty one it was amazing how much that woman had learned in five years.
h/t Mark Twain
ReRe
(10,597 posts)7. Damn good ad, huh?
Bet she sells it. Hell, I was afraid for my kids to ride a bike at that age.
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)8. Kinda pricy...
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)9. +1
lindysalsagal
(20,678 posts)10. We'd all be in better shape if all parents stood up to their kids like this
instead of trying to be their best friend.