[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Funny where the line is drawn.... at 24 you can do anything almost and be excused for it it seems, smuggle drugs...piss everywhere....
But the minute you have a child this miraculous event occurs and you morph into mother earth?...
No, it doesn't work like that you still retain your own personality. Reading through this person has been taken for a fool, lied to and humiliated by their own daughter initially, how must that feel?
2 wrongs don't make a right, but to experience the same feelings and emotions as you inflict on others can be a good life lesson.
It's evident they as a parent felt humiliated, embarrassed and exasperated, parenting teens is more mentally exausting as you see the dangers or have experienced them yourself, and yet they can't....
I really hope that this teen understands when this dies down that sometimes it is necessary to go to extremes to make yourself clear, or to make a point... if you think your child is at risk or in danger you do anything, it may seem unconventional even slightly nuts to some, but when you feel that scared and desperate I totally understand how she could get to that point.

Doing something like this is just hypocritical and incendiary, it's just plain old bad parenting.

You can't do something that's low to teach your kid a lesson and then expect them hold themselves to a higher standard. Kids learn by example and stunts like this help no one.