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What Do You Do About the Bad Peers Who Are Instrumental in Your difficult child's Descent?
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<blockquote data-quote="mrsammler" data-source="post: 450765"><p>Nancy, you're my hero! You did all of the things that I would do in the same situation, and for the same reason: not out of a naive belief that it would positively impact your difficult child, but because *it's the right thing to do* and those thugs a) have got it coming to them and b) need to understand that they will be resisted at every turn by at least one adult in the community. Imagine what would happen if *every* adult in the community responded to them in this way.</p><p></p><p>I am reminded of a 1973 TV movie-of-the-week that I saw when I was a kid: "Outrage," with Robert Culp as a middle-aged father who becomes so enraged at the thuggery of a bunch of teenage punks in his neighborhood that, after enduring as much abuse as he could stand and the craven impotence of the rest of the adults on his street, finally takes a baseball bat (iirc) and....well, watch the movie on YouTube, where it's available in full in 10-minute clips. The ending is very satisfying: no one is harmed, but he drives home his point very emphatically, using the teen punks' cars as the object of his fury. As should we all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrsammler, post: 450765"] Nancy, you're my hero! You did all of the things that I would do in the same situation, and for the same reason: not out of a naive belief that it would positively impact your difficult child, but because *it's the right thing to do* and those thugs a) have got it coming to them and b) need to understand that they will be resisted at every turn by at least one adult in the community. Imagine what would happen if *every* adult in the community responded to them in this way. I am reminded of a 1973 TV movie-of-the-week that I saw when I was a kid: "Outrage," with Robert Culp as a middle-aged father who becomes so enraged at the thuggery of a bunch of teenage punks in his neighborhood that, after enduring as much abuse as he could stand and the craven impotence of the rest of the adults on his street, finally takes a baseball bat (iirc) and....well, watch the movie on YouTube, where it's available in full in 10-minute clips. The ending is very satisfying: no one is harmed, but he drives home his point very emphatically, using the teen punks' cars as the object of his fury. As should we all. [/QUOTE]
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