I called the cops on my........4 year old.

if that ever happened to one of my girls even if it was my son that did it i would have my son removed from the home and evaluated. at 11 yrs old tho the child knows better. i don't think your friend did anything wrong. you can't always watch every move your kids make if you could you'd be supermom

What the son did was just plain wrong and I think that that should be the focus and not what punishment he received. I'd hope that my kids wouldn't behave the way he did and try and get revenge in that manner. I don't think it's right that they removed her kids from her over that, but I suppose if there outsiders they wouldn't know how the family usually works. I hope everything works out okay.

well the first thing that comes to my mind when i read this article is that the 11 year old needs to have some professional help.he needs to be taken to a doctor or a consultant regarding his issue.well when the reason is genuine and when the child is punished i dont think the authorities should have any right interfering in others buisness.howdo they expect to discipline children otherwise.there are certain boundaries which authorities should not cross.

First of all I would never call the police on a 4 year old. A 4 year old is a baby for pete sakes. Why in the world would you want to start scaring them of authority at that age. Now if he was playing with fire or matches I would maybe take him to the fire dept. Now you go another step further and talk about a 11 year old with some serious issues. A belt isnt going to take care of the problems that child has it will just add to them.

Frst off I have to say that now a days the abuse concept is way out of line. Everyone wants to protect the children but there is such a thing as being overprotective and that can be just as damaging as abuse. With young children I think there should be a form of punishment that is not hurtful. But if a timeout or standing in the corner is also abusive then where do you go from here. An application of force is sometimes what is needed and if it controlled there is no reason to scream abuse. The problems with todays society stem from the generation that grew up without any forceful enforcement of the rules and they have allowed their kids to just run their lives now. The longer this goes on the sooner we hit a society without any morals and everyone just does as they please. work will of course be a thing of the past, so the government will end up supporting everyone, and then they can figure out where to draw the line.

sorry there must be something wrong in that family if i was the parent i would be questioning what i was doing wrong and ask for help my daughter will be seven and i dont have to smack her never have she has a naughty step and if she is bad she has to sit on it which doesnt happen that often now too many people have kids and they have trouble looking after themselves by the way i aint having a go at anyone as everyone has there own way of living their lives as for t5he authorities they seem to get involved in homes that dont need it and less with the ones that do

I can't see how more worse things could possibly get. As far as the Authorities backing off that is a laugh. Unfortunately they have the upper hand nowadays in the way you raise your kids. I was on the bus yesterday with my hubby and 4 year old son. There was this 62 year old woman sitting next to me on her way in picking up her 4 year old grandson. My son likes to stand up on the seat and look out the window when all of a sudden the driver was insisting that my hubby not permit this. We eventually got my son to listen. The woman sitting next to me was babbling on that you know the driver has a right to kick you off the bus if you don't obey the rules. Then the driver started saying no one wants to sit in a place where someone had there feet on. Nothing more to say.

Thats a very frightning thing to find your young kids doing. I would of yelled at them and taken her to the doctor to see if this had happened before. i would ask him why he was doing such a thing and where he heared of it. children only act on what they see and hear. he must have seen this happen somewhere and is very curiouse to see what its all about. i have a friends whos son was been molested buy a 15 year old boy who she intrusted to babysit her son. and it was a friends son. he is ot in a place that will help him understand its wrong. she did get the police involved as according to the doctor, it had been happeneing for quit some time. yes, child are very smart. i have another friend whos daughter did just that, went to school with a burse she had gotten falling of her bike, told her teacher her mom gave it to her, due to her not doing her home work. she was not allowed to watch tv. the state came over and talked with my friend. the young girl got into trouble.

i think you are really trying to scare your child. your threatning him to not tell anyone he's getting hit at home or you will pack up his rags and tell him to leave. that's really scary. i think if your that scared of someone finding out that you spank your child either don't do it or go ahead and send your child to live with someone else. i don't beleive in spanking myself, i know it's agaisnt the law here now but i still think it should be up to the parents but used as to an extreme. but scaring your child like that makes it sound like maybe that's not all that's going on. it looks like your scaring him to not talk about what is really going on.

First off, I doubt it was the beating with the belt that got the children removed in the first place on that scenerio (the 11 and year old) but being I do not know the whole situation, I can't know that for sure. On the same note, beating was not the appropriate response anyway, in that scenerio. Children are curious and 11 year olds are still children and the situation should have been handled in a much different manner. So I am sure the authorities looked at that. As for the rest of your post, without trying to be judgemental, I think it is kind of cold to feel that your son is "free to go". Although anyone who knows me knows that I feel "Big Brother" is way too involved in our lives, I also feel that someone has to look out for the welfare of kids. Where the balance is, I do not know. I have seen both situations. The children should be removed and are not or vice versa. I suppose that all falls into the "human error" category. As for your opening question, I would never in my life have called the authorities on my son. I would go other routes. And basically I could take it all on myself either way because I made my children into what they are and how they act. And I never laid a hand or any object on any 3 of my kids. They had their moments, no doubt, but all in all they learned from example and they have great hearts now as teens. We take the good and the bad when having children. They are not expendable but our resposibility for a lifetime.