Mom Calls 911 Over Son's Non-Stop Gaming

[UberMore]

Oh deary, I appear to have annoyed one of Religion, or someone who can't see the satire through their own views.
Calm down, it was merely a statement that she's using something for backup that isn't required in this situation.

I think you should realize that something that may be hilarious in your own mind may not appear so funny when you type it up for people to see. I can't look through the screen to see you cracking a smile or having a chuckle. How was she using it for "backup", though? I can't see it as anything more then her being kind of desperate, feeling she has nowhere to turn, saying she has the Church to help her out but even that isn't helping her enough. I don't think she was falling back on religion in any sense, at least not by what we can gather by her quote, rather just offering perspective on her struggles as a parent.

Yeah, I did find it funny, because I find that kind of thing slightly amusing and you may not of, which is fine, but you feeling the need to "attack" (I use the term lightly, for lack of a better term) on an internet forum is honestly one of the reasons why I mock religion so.
And I have nothing against her using the Church to help her on something so trivial, I just agreed that the need to mention it is pointless.

 

[lostclause]

As a parent, I can only imagine what kind of little shit this kid must be and what he puts his poor mother through. She needs to mom up, and give the damn console away to someone, but if she has this much trouble disciplining her son maybe if she did that the kid would go psycho on her. She's probably afraid of him to some degree to let him walk all over her like that.

Also, from the looks of the story, she's a single mom. This kid is just a brat, too bad the cops couldn't take him away for a bit.

Pretty much this. Not a parent myself but I would be pissed if I discovered my kid awake at 2 am (might be slightly different if they'd arranged it in advance for a LAN or something).

It's clear the mother acted inappropriately in calling the police but I still have more sympathy for her situation than the kids.

 

[chronobreak]

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1. Maybe she IS just a hard-working single mother. Is that really that out there to believe? If you were the editor, what position would you want to take on the story? I don't see how believing that would make someone a marionette, dancing to the tune of the media, it's simply the more probably case. Would I be dancing to the tune of the Herald if they reported contaminated food, and chose to not eat it?

2. She says she wants to help her son. To me, this indicates the kid may spend entirely too much time focused on video games. What parent doesn't want better for their kids? Playing at 2:30 may not be obsessive to him, but it certainly is to a single mom trying to maintain a certain order in HER household.

3. I have two kids. They can be very bratty when they make a concious decision to not listen. When kids don't listen, they are brats. If they do not listen one hundred percent of the time, they are a brat, if they don't listen ten percent of the time, than during that ten percent they are most certainly a brat.

4. I didn't even read the Herald Article, I saw this on Fox Boston. Dancing to the tune of something I haven't read, I am not.

 

[NickCooley]

Please like no one here ever stayed up late as a kid. You could've just done what my mum did and let me stay awake only to wake me up early in the morning for school. It wasn't a case of "Do what I say because I said it!" It was "I told you so. Gonna listen to me next time?"

Unless it was over the weekend. I had nothing I had to get up early for so I could stay up as late as I wanted really.

If you have to call the police to get your kid to go to bed you're a bad parent. Although the police actually responding is pretty stupid too. They should've tazed him. Would've been funny at least.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

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1. Maybe she IS just a hard-working single mother. Is that really that out there to believe? If you were the editor, what position would you want to take on the story? I don't see how believing that would make someone a marionette, dancing to the tune of the media, it's simply the more probably case. Would I be dancing to the tune of the Herald if they reported contaminated food, and chose to not eat it?

2. She says she wants to help her son. To me, this indicates the kid may spend entirely too much time focused on video games. What parent doesn't want better for their kids? Playing at 2:30 may not be obsessive to him, but it certainly is to a single mom trying to maintain a certain order in HER household.

3. I have two kids. They can be very bratty when they make a concious decision to not listen. When kids don't listen, they are brats. If they do not listen one hundred percent of the time, they are a brat, if they don't listen ten percent of the time, than during that ten percent they are most certainly a brat.

4. I didn't even read the Herald Article, I saw this on Fox Boston. Dancing to the tune of something I haven't read, I am not.

Still, despite the situation.. there is no damned reason to EVER EVEN CONSIDER 911 as a fallback parenting tactic. That is not what they are there for, and I personally think this thing is far too hilarious that they even showed up.

So would you think I deserved police attention to say.. disagree with my mother a few times over my video game usage? I think not.

 

[Master_Fubar23]

As a parent, I can only imagine what kind of little shit this kid must be and what he puts his poor mother through. She needs to mom up, and give the damn console away to someone, but if she has this much trouble disciplining her son maybe if she did that the kid would go psycho on her. She's probably afraid of him to some degree to let him walk all over her like that.

Also, from the looks of the story, she's a single mom. This kid is just a brat, too bad the cops couldn't take him away for a bit.

or maybe the mom is shit. i was always told it takes two to fight so one time my mom was screaming at me n i walked outside to the backyard and sat down for me to calm down n so she cant... i mean wont yell at me. she doesnt like the neighbors hearing her yell. so while im literally sitting there for about 10 mins the police come out of the house and say whats up basicly. i tell em what happened and they told her not to waste their time again and to "take a lesson from your son. separate from each other and cool off before things get out of hand." i loved that day sooo much but i received hell for it later though lol. besides it was on a saturday so no school so no big deal. parents need to get with the times and be more negotiable. why bother fighting over something little? also on a final note this just shows her incredibly poor parenting skills.

 

[chronobreak]

Still, despite the situation.. there is no damned reason to EVER EVEN CONSIDER 911 as a fallback parenting tactic. That is not what they are there for, and I personally think this thing is far too hilarious that even showed up.

So would you think I deserved police attention to say.. disagree with my mother a few times over my video game usage? I think not.

No, as I have already stated it was certainly a bad decision on her part.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

Wow, I would support the mother in this case, "I have support from my church", wait, no, that just ruined any respect. What does that even have to do with this, it sounds like she's making excuses.

I could understand why she called the cops, it was to get the point across to the kid, but jeez that one line jsut ruined it.

I say she just, you know, TAKES AWAY THE GAMES, its not that hard. Jeez, i remeber doing that once and i was spanked like crazy, and hey it worked, i didnt dissobey in a long time.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

aaaaand this is what happens when parents stop beating their children

Amen, I know as a kid I didn't respond to anything but fear. The thought of my dad coming home to whoop my ass pretty much set me straight for the rest of the week.

Dude one beating sets the kid strait for a while, if you read my post it sure as hell worked for me.

 

[chronobreak]

or maybe the mom is shit. i was always told it takes two to fight so one time my mom was screaming at me n i walked outside to the backyard and sat down for me to calm down n so she cant... i mean wont yell at me. she doesnt like the neighbors hearing her yell. so while im literally sitting there for about 10 mins the police come out of the house and say whats up basicly. i tell em what happened and they told her not to waste their time again and to "take a lesson from your son. separate from each other and cool off before things get out of hand." i loved that day sooo much but i received hell for it later though lol. besides it was on a saturday so no school so no big deal. parents need to get with the times and be more negotiable. why bother fighting over something little? also on a final note this just shows her incredibly poor parenting skills.

Wow, you really showed her. That's... great? One time I got into an argument with my Dad, he proceeded to try to beat the crap out of me, and when he couldn't, called the police on me and said it was me that was doing it. Of course, when they showed up, they could tell he had been drinking and smoking crack all night, so they arrested him instead. Boy, that really showed him. Now I'm 25 and we do our best to ignore it because it was a very embarassing situation for both of us once you get over the whole "HAHA you got served I was right!" attitude.

Parents need to get with the times, huh? Yea, parents should let their kids do whatever they want. Hell, stay up all night playing games, who cares? Get with the times! Grades start slipping? Eh, fuck it, nobody cares about school anymore! Drop out, why not?

A good parent does their best to set reasonable boundaries for their children to follow, so later in life they can deal with the reality of having rules that they have to follow and be accountable for. Not staying up until 2:30 in the morning playing games is a reasonable boundary. If you don't think that is the case, I would like to know what else parents should get off their kids backs about. I will agree that this was a poor choice on both of their parts, and arguing does not normally solve anything, but I don't know that she is a terrible parent for this one experience. She obviously flipped her shit, probably after flipping it repeatedly with this kid.

She needs some help with her parenting skills, that's for sure. I hope people reach out to her to help, however, instead of condemning her for her poor choice.

 

[qbanknight]

 

[Aesir23]

Jesus christ, whats worse: a childds lack of respect for his mother, or the mothers inability to control their child? This is a joke isn't it?

See? That is why some people shouldn't be allowed to procreate.

I was a little hurt, till I realised that your were not talking about me.

This stroy reminds me of Russel Howard the comedian talkijng about a similar stroy, basically it was a mother wanting something banned. His response was 'no, ban your vagina till you can control what pops out of it'.

I can't help but agree with him. I hate it when parents are unable to control their kids. Especially when the little buggers run up and down the aisles in movie theatres. >_<

 

[paragon1]

Hey lady, you know what one of the nice things about DVD's are? They're not indestructible! You can break them in half! He's 14. If you don't want him playing GTA break it in half! I can only think of two reasons not to, he paid for it with money from a job, or he's much, much bigger than you and predisposed to violence. If he's mature enough for the former, then you should be able to reason with him. If it's the latter, then you have much bigger problems than your son being overenthusiastic about a videogame.

 

[funguy2121]

Yawn. Something else to blame for why "kids are so messed up these days," when the reality is we're just not able to kid ourselves about how messed up the kids are like the previous generations were.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

My guess is the kid isnt overly religious, rebelling against your parents is practically a rite of passage for teenagers. Since the parent is religious the kid probaly thought "Hey, a twofer"

But yeah, if she doesnt approve of GTA, where did he get it?

 

[Triforceformer]

"I have the support of my church". /Sigh... Well, you don't have mine.

Good thing you're so much more tolerant than the religious people, otherwise you would just judge them based on their WAIT A MINUTE.

Anyone who decides to not listen to this person or any person based on personal religious beliefs is someone who's opinion is inconsequential. Without the respect to listen society will never change.

With all that said, there may be some deeper issues inside this story. Obviously nobody's first instinct when their child won't go to bed is "Call the Police." Luckily, no one on these forums will give her any benefit of the doubt, so I'll do it instead.

You know how there are some bad people out in the world? Well sometimes bad people used to be bad kids. Some bad kids live in homes where the authority level is low, so they adopt an attitude of superiority. This is very bad, typically for submissive mothers. So you take a jerk kid and a Mom who showers her little baby with love and he turns into a jerkass who doesn't listen to anything she says and treats her like crap.

Their differing personalities make this difficult to rectify, as she won't speak up to him and he won't listen to her. Usually in these scenarios it's an only child vs. single parent.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that their repeated conflict culminated when he wouldn't listen to her (again) and she literally felt powerless and was forced to contact an outside power. Someone with force that the child would listen to. The Police fit that role nicely.

Also everyone here needs to stop with the crap about not knowing her son purchased the game. You aren't raising her child, you don't know what she is dealing with. It is entirely possible that this child purchased both the console and the games. We don't know the full story.

The last thing I have to say is that this really isn't about the game at all and we all know it. So why is it being discussed on this site or any other site? This is none of our business.

You sir, deserve a giant medal constructed entirely of cookies.