Another reckless teenage boy destroys his life
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Anonymous
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This time playing Senior Assassin. He decided to jump on the back of a moving car and got thrown off, receiving a severe head injury. His parents are blaming the game and the other kids rather than their own son.
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Anonymous
| FYI your judgement is likely driven by fear and and unconscious need for reassurance. |
Anonymous
| Your comments are in really bad taste, OP. |
Anonymous
Fear, yes! There is an epidemic of reckless teenage boys doing willfully dangerous things and it has to stop. This time no one else was injured but that is often not the case. Parents of boys need to DO BETTER. You can't just check out once they hit 6th grade like so many do. |
Anonymous
| This game is very dangerous. A kid at our school almost got shot playing it, by a homeowner not expecting him. |
Anonymous
An epidemic refers to something at present, no? This is a basic of human biology. |
Anonymous
Lazy parenting answer. DO BETTER. |
Anonymous
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Yeah, this has been happening for the last several millennia.
Boys are idiots. We lost three while I was in HS-- one hunting accident, one motorcycle accident, and one "hey guys watch me jump into this quarry from 40 feet up" |
Anonymous
The scary truth is that ALL boys have the potential to do something dumb for 30 seconds which might cost them their lives. It doesn't mean you should not try to educate, supervise and warn them obviously, but it can happen in the most random way you could not have possibly thought about. I'm sure these parents did not know to warn their son not to jump on the car of a moving car. |
Anonymous
Lazy parenting answer. DO BETTER. |
Anonymous
+1 People say these horrible things because it makes them believe they are doing the right thing and therefore they and their children are safe while other people who are doing wrong things are not. They cannot face the reality that everybody’s kid and every person does stupid things sometimes. |
Anonymous
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OP--look, we all agree the Senior Assassin game is dumb and parents and school districts should talk to their students about it.
However, this is a ridiculous and frankly cruel take on a tragic event in this kid and his family's life. He will pay for a dumb split-second decision for the rest of his life. Is that enough or should he also be subject to your judgemental, mean speculating? You are trying to make yourself feel safer by thinking that your style of parenting could protect your child from this type of accident. It could happen to any boy and you know it. Their frontal cortex doesn't develop until well into their 20's and they are shitty at assessing risk/consequences. It doesn't mean they shouldn't be held accountable for dumb decisions but I think the punishment here is enough. |
Anonymous
My theory is that young children are so padded and overprotected by parents these days, desperately lacking adequate exposure to the physical world, that when they become teens and naturally separate from their parents, they’re abilities to assess risk and consequences are f*cked. |
Anonymous
| JFC, there is no "these days" when it comes to adolescent boys doing stupid shit. Tale as old as time, literally. |
Anonymous
Like this right here. Your need to believe that this happens only to parents who are lazy or negligent, who checked out by sixth grade, who didn’t (all-caps) do better, is a way of reassuring yourself. If it only happens to *them,* you can cling to the idea that it will never happen to you. Thing is, that’s not how it works. Having kids is scary. Sometimes they ignore our warnings. Sometimes they do things it never even occurred to us to warn them about. Likely some part of you knows that deep down, which means you’ll never adequately reassure yourself. Judgement is a brittle armor. |