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Well, damn. Kids are getting innovative now a days.



Whatever happened to something as simple as "I HATE YOU!" and running away crying?

Someone watches too much Harry Potter

Sounds like a pretty fu[b][/b]cked up family to begin with, never mind the 15yo..

Is it just me, or would having to "watch them" make the kid pretty screwed up?

Whatever happened to hitting the kid on the *** or upside the head? They never learn what's right from wrong, pretty soon we are going to have preschool shootings.

That's so aweful :(

I can almost garauntee that kids parents fubared him. No kid is born bad, and I get tired of parents complaining about how bad thier kids are and not taking any responsibility for how they turned out. I know some families like this and it's so sad. If the kid is so bad they have to practically imprison him why haven't they taken him for counceling? Why isn't he in juvenile hall or some kind of boot camp? What about mental disorders, have they taken him to a doctor cause he sure sounds crazy to me. Some people just digust me. Good luck and blessings, Prana

My god....

Parenting is a tough job. I'm speaking from the outside, but as I do eventually plan on spawning at least one or two progeny, I've paid attention to the process and what works and doesn't.

It seems that the most important part is that you have to teach the child to 100% respect what you tell them without instilling an actual fear of the parent figure. Corporal punishment is a tool that can be used to that end, but is far from the ONLY tool available. I think 3/4 of the problem we have with child rearing is that there are too many fads. TimeOut! isn't actually a bad tool....until you use it in every single situation.


Fads are great for music genres, but horrible when consistent results are desired.

All kids respond to different disciplines, and they can change as they grow. One child may take timeouts, others may learn more from a toy taken away. Others may need something else. I do not spank my child, but I dont need to. Taking toys away seem to work effectively.

This kid, however is 15 years old. Obviously the parents were not disciplining him well as a child, or they did not pay enough attention to the warning signs as he grew into a teen. I dont blam the parents, but there must have been something they did not do right for this to happen. No sane child does this because he's "mad".

I blame MTV.

Hitting a child is wrong.
Smacking a child, on the other hand, is at times, a great way of disiplining a child.
I don't smack my kids very often, I normally use other methods of disiplining them first, but if none of them seems to work, they get my hand across their *** and sent to their room.

I'm going to disagree and here's why.

I do believe hat parents are responsible for their children. They need to teach them right from wrong. That is their job, and when a child messes up this badly, you have to wonder at their parenting style. HOwever, this is a person 15 years of age. He is old enough, and smart enough, to know the difference between right and wrong. He knows that rat poison can kill. This is exactly what he was aiming for. It's not like he was a 6 year old kid, who did not know that rat poison was lethal. The kid knew, and knowing the difference between right and wrong, he did it anyways.

There comes a time when a child must be responsible for his or her own actions. I find it hard to believe a person that age did not know the difference in responsibility. He knew what he was doing and he acted upon it, despite knowing how wrong it was.

Parents can only lead children to learn the truths. It is up to the person by the time their 15 to act upon it. People may not be born "bad" but by the time they reach adolesence they have the choice to shape their life. They can choose to be "good" or "bad". By that time in age, the parent may still guide, but can not rule their childrens actions in whole.

So I lay blame where it is due' straight on the lap of the 15 year old person, who knew exactly what he was doing, and didn't care that he was trying to take away peoples lives. Not only that, but he was trying to kill those who loved him.

Why? The child is obviously a Democrat.

He used poison in the food. He attempted to subvert a normal process (eating) into giving abnormal results that were not intended or expected by those participating (death).

If he was Republican, he'd have just grabbed a gun and shot his family and then claimed they were trying to rob him.