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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you effing kidding me? How is this even a question? Are you just trying to find a reason NOT to take the car away? I don't particularly care about your kid. I do care that he is going 95 while texting and thus is a danger to everyone else on the road.

Take the car away. If that means you have to drive him to sports practices all over town - well weren't you doing that last yr or 2 yrs ago? And if you're over it and don't want to do it -- refuse to drive him. He can pay the price of having to drop out of activities or having to ride a bus. I would also make a rule that he CAN'T ride in his friends' cars to such activities. If he is group texting with a bunch of friends about this -- you don't know if they are crazy drivers and I wouldn't want him in their cars either.[/quote]

He's oldest of 3 children, diff. schools, diff. activities, etc. It won't be easy.

What if he says it was just a joke?[/quote]

You suck. Parenting isn't easy.  You know what else isn't easy?  Burying kids!!!!   You're an absolute ass for allowing your kid to pull this crap[/quote]

Yup. And if he says it's a joke? Tough. Those kinds of "jokes" have consequences, i.e., no more car or phone. Moreover, there's not a goddamn thing funny about it.

But I see where he gets being a jackass from. OP, you keep going out of your way to find reasons not to discipline him, let alone as harshly as he deserves. Person up.[/quote]

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