Crispy123
10-14-2009, 03:03 PM
As discussed on the show today...
Girl Forced to Chew on Soap (http://www.wesh.com/news/21279807/detail.html)
Couple Bond Out of Jail (http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/brevard_news/101309_Couple_who_forced_child_to_eat_soap_free)
This town is 20 mins away from where I live and is known for low income housing, gangs, and drugs. That may just be a coincidence but this doesnt sound like some good old fashioned salt of the Earth parents discipining their child.
First of all for the people who are saying the parents are just old school, you are dead wrong. These werent the childs parents. It was the mom and her boyfriend. This is whats wrong with kids today, it aint necessarily the kids; its the people raising them.
Parenting is like planning a shuttle launch. It takes strategy, guidence, technology, skill and luck. You have to have a game plan for raising your child, there is no one thing you can do to "fix" a childs behavior. For one person to do this and hold down a job and try to have your own life, its damn near impossible with one kid much less two.
Chiarilla says it's a shame. "Parents make mistakes. They don't know everything. Their mistake wasn't necessarily that they gave her the soap, it was the reaction to what happen."
And now the mother and her boyfriend face punishment for their actions. They were more concerned about themselves. To me that's a selfish reaction," adds Chiarilla.
These two werent trying to "parent" this child or try to promote better behavior they were striclty punishing this girl and only cared about covering their own asses when it went bad. That is not what an 8 year old from a broken home with Mom and her Moms live in boyfriend need.
Girl Forced to Chew on Soap (http://www.wesh.com/news/21279807/detail.html)
Couple Bond Out of Jail (http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/brevard_news/101309_Couple_who_forced_child_to_eat_soap_free)
This town is 20 mins away from where I live and is known for low income housing, gangs, and drugs. That may just be a coincidence but this doesnt sound like some good old fashioned salt of the Earth parents discipining their child.
First of all for the people who are saying the parents are just old school, you are dead wrong. These werent the childs parents. It was the mom and her boyfriend. This is whats wrong with kids today, it aint necessarily the kids; its the people raising them.
Parenting is like planning a shuttle launch. It takes strategy, guidence, technology, skill and luck. You have to have a game plan for raising your child, there is no one thing you can do to "fix" a childs behavior. For one person to do this and hold down a job and try to have your own life, its damn near impossible with one kid much less two.
Chiarilla says it's a shame. "Parents make mistakes. They don't know everything. Their mistake wasn't necessarily that they gave her the soap, it was the reaction to what happen."
And now the mother and her boyfriend face punishment for their actions. They were more concerned about themselves. To me that's a selfish reaction," adds Chiarilla.
These two werent trying to "parent" this child or try to promote better behavior they were striclty punishing this girl and only cared about covering their own asses when it went bad. That is not what an 8 year old from a broken home with Mom and her Moms live in boyfriend need.