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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read it and I have also read Columbine. In addition, I'm a mental health professional and mother of teens. I found the book to be very moving, honest and painful. Sue K. accepts responsibility for what she and her husband missed; but you can see how easy it would be to miss what they did. She blames herself for not paying close enough attention but Dylan, and especially Eric, fooled many people including teachers, counselors and law enforcement. The Klebolds seemed like a very loving family who just didn't get how seriously depressed their child was. Put yourself in their place - the kid was going to college and had just gone happily to the prom. What would you have suspected? [/quote]

Dylan was still spending most of his free time with Eric.  After the trouble that those two had gotten into - why were they still hanging around each other so much?

I have always thought that those two spun off of each other and that they were emboldened by each other to do this.  If the two of them had not been together, Columbine would not have happened.

Dylan probably would have gone off to college where the st*ff would have hit the fan for him but in not such a violent way.  The kid was not stable.[/quote]
This is right. Both of these grossly neglected kids did whatever they pleased. Their parents were afraid of them.[/quote]

Does Dylan's mom say that she was afraid of him?  Most parents give their HS seniors lots of freedom to get themselves to/from school, work, friends' houses.  It is understandable and normal that Dylan had some freedom.  But I would think that, given his troubled history, his parents would have been keeping tabs on where he was going, who he was seeing and when he would be back.

So I would think that they were aware that he was hanging around Eric a lot. And that Dylan had gotten into trouble with Eric in the past.  Did they know Eric?  Were they aware of how disturbed he was?  [/quote]
Are you serious? What parent will admit to being afraid of their own kid? Hell, I've seen parents afraid of their five year old.[/quote]

Yes, I can see how that would be a hard thing to admit.  But Dylan is dead and he died by his own hand after shooting his fellow students at Columbine.  The worst case scenario has happened for Dylan's parents and the parents of the victims, it can't be prevented and it is very clear that Dylan was a very troubled young man to have participated in that horror.  And it is also clear that Eric was a very disturbed young man.

Yet, no one saw signs, no one was ever afraid of them and what they might do?  [/quote]
Why should their parents *admit* to seeing severe signs of trouble? Then they'd have to admit to things they don't want to admit to. [/quote]

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