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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 60567" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>I think you are putting way to much responsibility on your son for controlling that other child's behavior. Your son wasn't in charge, he was just another kid in the mix. Kids do dumb things, <em>ALL</em> kids do dumb things. Sounds like the neighbor boy did most of the dumb things happening that night.</p><p></p><p>And keep in mind that your son didn't destroy a toy. The neighbor boy destroyed -- or intended to destroy --it. Your son destroyed what was by then -- at least in the mind of the owner of the toy -- just a piece of trash. </p><p></p><p>Despite how you feel, there is something almost carthartic about destroying unwanted items. Many people do it to broken or unwanted things. (My son had an old, cheap electric guitar that didn't work right and wasn't worth the cost of repair. He wanted to smash it <em>a la</em> Jimi Hendricks and Pete Townsend. I let him. Turns out it's not as easy as it looks.)</p><p></p><p>You might want to reread your post; it isn't about your son's bad acts but about the bad acts of the boy next door. You have very little to feel bad about your son. Sounds like he did almost everything right. I suspect the parents won't be leaving that child home alone unsupervised for a while....at least I hope they won't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 60567, member: 1498"] I think you are putting way to much responsibility on your son for controlling that other child's behavior. Your son wasn't in charge, he was just another kid in the mix. Kids do dumb things, [i]ALL[/i] kids do dumb things. Sounds like the neighbor boy did most of the dumb things happening that night. And keep in mind that your son didn't destroy a toy. The neighbor boy destroyed -- or intended to destroy --it. Your son destroyed what was by then -- at least in the mind of the owner of the toy -- just a piece of trash. Despite how you feel, there is something almost carthartic about destroying unwanted items. Many people do it to broken or unwanted things. (My son had an old, cheap electric guitar that didn't work right and wasn't worth the cost of repair. He wanted to smash it [i]a la[/i] Jimi Hendricks and Pete Townsend. I let him. Turns out it's not as easy as it looks.) You might want to reread your post; it isn't about your son's bad acts but about the bad acts of the boy next door. You have very little to feel bad about your son. Sounds like he did almost everything right. I suspect the parents won't be leaving that child home alone unsupervised for a while....at least I hope they won't. [/QUOTE]
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