4 Year Old Drunk, Christmas Spree
By charblaize
@charblaize (1026)
United States
December 20, 2009 4:09pm CST
I was just surfing the net when I came across this subject. A four year old got up, broke the knob off the front door, went to the back and got a 12oz can of beer and was drinking it. All this at 1:45 AM in the morning. The mother found him wearing a dress with the can of beer in his hand. She took him to the emergency room to get treated for the alcohol consumption. The little boy got the dress from under the christmas tree at the neighbors house!
The little boy said he wanted to get into trouble so he can go to jail to see his father.
Here is the link: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/18/crimesider/entry5995978.shtml
I would be terrified and was scared to death when my son wanted to go ride the "tractors" when he ran away from home. I know how she feels and wouldn't wish this upon anyone.
Its just strange how we hear about this more and more every day about children getting out of the house, wondering the roads, stealing cars and such at young ages. What is going on?
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5 responses
@anotherxidentity (1434)
• United States
20 Dec 09
The thing with this story is something had to of happen for this little boy to do all of this because I was listening to the radio and they started asking about why where there safety locks to begin with and how in the world was the boy able to break it. He most of done something beforehand it seems. And also they were asking about why she got up and why she felt the need to have to go look at her kids. I know when I was 4 years old my parents didn't feel the need to have to check in on me.
For me I think the mom needs to be punished. Obviously there are some family issues that need to get straightened out.
@AnnieOakley1 (5596)
• Canada
21 Dec 09
I agree that there may well be other issues at hand here, but we don't know what they are and to just decide someone's guilt before being proven guilty isn't fair.
I do think that it needs to be investigated further.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
23 Dec 09
I heard about this, too, and it's even more heartbreaking because he wanted to join his Daddy in jail. There's something very wrong when so many fathers are in jail. I wonder what he is in jail for?
We need to start preventing offenses instead of punishing them! I mean, maybe this dad was caught dealing pot to support his family. It looks like a nice house but who's to know if they are current with their payments?! If he was caught dealing pot he should be given financial counseling, help with finding a job, budgeting advice, education, etc.
I think we have a real parenting crises these days, too. A whole generation, maybe 2 of them, have been raised by the television and seen fictional families with problems like this dealt with in a humorous manner and everything is right in the end. TV doesn't depict reality but they don't know that. They barely saw their parents an hour a day, most of them, they were raised by TV and their friends and they don't know a damned thing about raising children. That, I think, is why we are seeing all this.
In my day, we wouldn't even TALK about stealing the family car for fear our dad would hear and read us the riot act. We would NEVER consider stealing because our parents and grandparents would be so ashamed of us and hurt. Kids these days are not raised with family loyalty and don't care what they think. 
@charblaize (1026)
• United States
27 Dec 09
I try to teach my son right or wrong but it doesn't help when they see other children doing it, hear of other children doing it and not getting disciplined by grandparents. I remember getting a willow tree branch against my bottom and I turned out fine. I still discipline like my parents when it is necessary. I want my son to learn to be afraid of consquences but sometimes his other grandparents don't scare him and he does things anyway. My son knows the rules at our house and doesn't act like that at all at our home.
I see many raised today that have the don't care attitude, not loyal and disruptive. I just pray that mine don't turn out that way.
@AnnieOakley1 (5596)
• Canada
20 Dec 09
Sounds like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Pardon the pun.
I read the story. I'm still in shock as to why this child actually broke out of his own home, to steal, to get in trouble, to visit his Dad. It just boggles the mind.
@charblaize (1026)
• United States
21 Dec 09
I was shocked also, I just hope the mother will have the son talking to a therapist or something after this to help them both. I just hope nothing else more serious happens.
@kawalnarang (1095)
• Trinidad And Tobago
21 Dec 09
U know who to blame,,the one who is in charge of the kids
@charblaize (1026)
• United States
21 Dec 09
Thats what they told me with my son, though I was in the other part of the house and my son was with his father at the time. We both got into trouble and yes, kids do like to roam and explore but at 1:45AM most are sleeping at that time and we don't expect them to be doing all this. Its a bizzare story and hope it don't happen to anyone else.
