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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another NP with your husband.

These boys are TERRIBLE influences on your child. He's demonstrated that he can't resist their ideas, and goes along with it. What's next, they rob someone? You think that every parent of a child who robs someone says "yeah, we knew he'd do that, he robbed someone last week and said he'd do it again"? He'll be in juvie in no time and you'll still be wondering what happened.

I'd come down on this so hard, he wouldn't know what hit him.

The only 'nice' thing I'd do is enroll him in a new activity to try to meet some nicer kids.[/quote]

We may be giving OP's son the benefit of the doubt here, and he actually may be the terrible influence as the leader instead of the follower--and OP probably needs to allow for this grim possibility. (If he lied to your face about stealing, don't be so quick to think he wouldn't throw his friends under the bus and say "it was Larlo's idea!" when it was his! I mean, why did they pick the shed of YOUR neighbor instead of a neighbor of another friend???)

Either way, have to cut him off from the friend group presumably so they no longer have influence on him, but possibly so that he no longer has a peer group to influence that he can lead down this destructive path.

It's bad. Very bad. And he will do his VERY BEST to convince you otherwise. Be strong.[/quote]

This actually makes sense, I didn't think that her son might be one of the worst apples in the bunch. But I agree that most 'good' kids caught in this situation would feel very guilty and would be quick to come clean. Yep, definitely good to keep him away from these kids.

And for the love of all things good, please get him enrolled in some productive activities to keep him amused and build up his self esteem before he gets interested in guns.[/quote]

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