What message does this send?

Well there is a possiblity that the kid was at school and felt sick, so the mother had to come pick the child up. And since she was already uptown, she thought she should grab something she needed and brought the kid in with here. So once he started running around, she told him she would take him to school if he didn't stop, because if he was running around he obviously wasn't too sick. My mom has said this to my brother before when he insisted staying home one day from school because he claimed to be feeling ill. He started running around, playing, and being very, very loud. She told him that if he didn't stop she would take him to school because clearly he wasn't that sick. But if that is not the case, then it does not send a very good message. You shouldn't get out of school for acting good. Only if you are sick or there has been some sort of emotional trauma, ect.

lol Mom's just blurt out things sometimes without thinking. Are you a mom? In fact, I've probably been guilty of shouting those very words...Never mind probably... I HAVE shouted those very words. I don't think I've done it in public though. I think the "message" that she was trying to send was...I let you stay home cuz of your runny nose, or your "tummy ache" or because you "didn't feel good" and if you are now feeling well enough to run around the store and be a pain in my @ss and the store clerks @ss, then you are probably well enough to go to school! If he was 5 years old, he would have been old enough to be in kindergarten, young enough to be attending school and still young enough were missing school for a minor illness or yucky day would not be such a big deal. I'm guess that's not the answer you were looking for, but it's the one that popped in my head. :-)

Probably not the best, but as a parent I can understand. I think all parents have had moments of frustration with children in public where we speak before thinking. Not the best thing to do, but were only human.

I don't know, school has become a really scary place. I took my daughter out of public school because of the abuse I saw going on in the classrooms. Maybe the mother did homeschool and she was really using it as a threat. I never did that but it would have worked on my daughter. She was so glad to get out of public school, it was really easy to teach her at home. Shalom~Adoniah

That is beyond anything I have heard in ages. I wonder what the child protection people would think of that one-? Weird. I firmly believe that some women should not be allowed to give birth or to mother. And this sort of thing tends to grow on you too. You hear or read it and think how awful but it really grows on me and makes me angrier as I continue to think about it.

Well, I can remember one of my family story. I have a younger brother and in my childhood, my father bought us a book which had an art made by papers. When you will open that particular page, a lion's face will be drawn with papers. My brother was so scared of that paper that he didn't even want to touch that book. So, my mum got a reason to make him scared and do whatever she orders. "Kid, do this otherwise I will open that book in front of you!" LOL! he doesn't remember that story because he was very young at that time but now he laughs at that incident when my mum reminds him of that!

Maybe it was a coded statement that actually meant the "School of Hard Knocks" and she'd slap him sideways if he didn't calm the heck down!

Wow~ not a good message at all! I can't believe that a mom would say something like this. Just wait for this poor child to go to school and be afraid that it is going to be horrible!!

That was as dumb as threatning to call the cops. It is just another sadly pathetic mother that has no clue as to how to handle her child.

What effect did it have Dawn? Maybe she was a teacher. LOL. Personally I would have become the model of good behaviour. That's a nasty scary thing for a grown up to threaten! I've been to school....... shudder

Oh my God,I didnt know that school is a scary place in USA too.I live in Bangladesh and trust me here in Bangladesh school is a really scary place.All the teachers loves to keep the students in mental pressure(most of the time phycally).But I thought in all developed country school is considered to be a nice place. Now come to the point,"school is a scary place" all time,in all country,this massage send one news "Teachers look after your future generation carefully".

If we could only all be aware of the message we send every time we engage mouth before brain,the world would be a nicer place. I find my feet in my mouth often and that is always an uncomfortable position.

Hi ya dawnald Well I might say such a thing to my kids if we are having fun and one of my kids is being really annoying and spoiling everything. Oh and only if it was a Saturday or Sunday!! LOL . Seriously though I would never say such a thing to my kids as it doesn't take much for kids these days to decide not to like school and then you have a job on your hands to get them there so I wouldn't say anything to my kids if it was going to discourage them in any way about going to school. I try to give them a positive attitude towards learning!!

Um... that she wants a high school drop out? Um... that she has her kid in a real bad school if it's so bad he doesn't want to go. At that age school is supposed to still have fun in it. Um... that her parenting skills stink um... should I keep going?

it just shows that the child is not well disciplined at home,the mother takes the childs crankiness unneccessarily,while obviously the teachers wont.

that does sound bad.. however.. once in a while thing slide out of my mouth when i'm trying to get my daughter to listen too. i mostly try the distraction and redirection method.. but she's two.. and she's got more willpower then i do i think hah. she hates bedtime well she used to hate bedtime.. now i learned to just let her stay up later and ther eis less of a fight at bedtime.. but my husband used to threaten to put her to bed, AS IF we didn't have a hard enough time getting her to sleep as it was... he decided on his own to make bedtime the punishment spot!!?? oh nooooo he didn't. i was FUMING. so now its the corner. where it should be.. geez. men.

oh really?....now see?....schools today became a scared place maybe because of how teachers handles their students even little children, instead they will loved by their pupils, they let them scared to them, how ironic it is...hope this will make as an extra care or lesson for teachers on how will they handle childrens.... happy mylotting....

I guess every child has their own tantrums and bad acts. Now it is a matter of discipline. Every parent should learn how to discipline their kids at young age and as earlier as possible. But the way we discipline kids should also be considered well. I think we should pick the right words to say and always explain things to kids in the lightest manner and ways they could understand. Those words that the mother uttered only shows that the kid does not like being at school. So I guess there is also something wrong with that. I guess we should never reason out school to kids when they do bad. We should find ways on how we can arose the kids interests in school. I had a lot of little brothers and lots of cousins who were ages 1 to 4 when I was a teenager. So I really saw lots of childhood attitudes. I guess parents should really seek help to child psychologists to know how to discipline their kids the right way. I do not want a bad kid and so even now that I have a seven month old baby boy, I am already starting to discipline him early.

I also say that to my child sometimes. She is just 2 yrs old. That basically signifies the seperation between the mother and the child. School is the first place where a child seperates from the mother. Although school is not a threat but that fear of seperation is for very young childeren.

Child is always afraid of teacher. So do I. They know mom won't beat them, but teacher will punish them. When I was young, my mother always told me, if you do that again, I will tell your teacher. haha.