Reply #206: I deal with kids all day long.... [View All]

[AnneD]

for a time I had to work with teens. I love 'em but teens are particularly hard headed. They have attitudes like toddlers that can get around better and have hormonal issues. Sometimes you have to get in their face to get their attention, and this is one of those times. Kids like to think that their parents are mean and other kids parents let them get away with it. The fact that this is making the wires shows other teens that this is not acceptable and there are consequences. It also lets parents know that they are not alone in dealing with it. I do believe that this event, publicity and all may have saved her son (and given some spine to other parents).

I don't know if folks caught it-but many of the folks supporting her were docs, nurses, emt's and law enforcement. I thought that was very telling. Nothing more tragic than seeing kids die needlessly or live altered needlessly.