Boy Hires Hitman to Kill Parents After Losing His PlayStation Priviledges

He would have one time to threaten me and I would send him back to Jesus express mail in a wooden box. If you don't discipline your children they will discipline you. We discipline our children because we love them and there are rules and regulations wherever you go. This young man didn't want to follow rules at home so now he has to follow them in jail. Do they have playstations in jail? He won't get to drive a car but while in jail he can make the license plate for it. Murder your parents!!!! Where did we get these piranhas we call children. Why would you take the life of the one who gave you life?

For a while I was trying to raise my 4 children with everything that everyone else had. I guess keeping up with the jones.
I finally put my foot down and started taking things away. We do not have cable, the kids are limited to what they can do on the computer and I am strict about where the kids can go and who they can hang out with.
For that my children are good kids! My kids talk to me and tell me about thier day instead of sitting in front of the TV. We watch TV together and only when there is something good on. My children are NOT allowed to sit in front of the gaming system they have all day. They play out side and build forts and climb trees. That is what kids are supposed to do.
I think parents need to get back to the basics and teach them what is important and a gaming system is not important.
Have conversations with your children and talk to them about goals and school and what you can do with thier lives. Have fun with them. Read to them and make a difference. Parenting has everything to do with who your children become later in life and the decisions they make.

Jacquelynn~

sandy says:
Corporal punishment is not warranted in ANY
circumstances with children.

11/08/07 3:32 PM

That is an opinion. And not even yours. You are quoting propaganda. Some of the most violent and disrespectful children are the ones that are not issued corporal punishment. And as I said previously swats on the backside are not equivalent to a punch in the eye or legs that are black and blue. Rear your children how you want but allow me the same freedom. My mother spanked myself and my sisters. She was also just.
She would listen to reason and we never questioned her love or wisdom. Because of these quatlities we didn't have frequent spankings we knew not to go to far! I have always loved and respected my mother. I strive to exhibit these qualities with my own children.

I want my MTV!!!

that is called ENTRAPMENT!!

I think this is entrapment. Add that to the crappy parenting job these people must have done and here you have this story. The terrible thing with these kind of stories is the "good parenting" starts to late. You have to be a good parent the whole time, not just when they start getting in trouble @ 16. Wakey wakey people!

To hell with the "spare the rod/spoil the child" crap. I was spanked for every infraction, regardless of the offense when I was a kid. I hated my father for it. I've spent countless hours in counseling and have had chronic generalized anxiety for as long as I can remember. Raising my own son -- he is treated with love and respect, told that he's awesome and he's loved on a regular basis -- yes, he plays video games just like all kids but he knows he's loved and he knows his boundaries and I doubt that he'll be spending half his life trying to get unscrewed up like I've spent mine. Spanking does NO GOOD. I'm living proof.

Beat his ass!!! That's what happended so most of us! We all turned out pretty good! mostly...

Roberto at 11/07/07 8:52 AM said something very significant. He said:

"It's like if someone starved you for two weeks, then put a steak out in front of you. Chances are you would eat it. Now when his parents take away his stuff, kick him out of the bloody house, and he gets a spur of the moment chance to get them back, it may have just been a sudden reaction without any real thought."

Roberto---and others---what you've said tells the whole story, and here's why: I'm someone who grew up in a house that allowed no violence, no paddling, not even pointing your finger at someone and saying "bang, bang". Certainly, if video games had been available, my parents would have disallowed them.

And here's the kicker: In that moment when I would have had to make the sudden choice about how to handle my anger at my parents, the entire possibility of choosing a hitman wouldn't have been part of my vocabulary. It wouldn't have been part of the choices that would pop to mind quickly.

So, it's not that the video game makes the person make a bad choice ...it's just that the video games train users to include those experiences within the range of choices that they could make. ...and that's the problem.

It shouldn't have even been one of the possible choices that came to mind.

Yes, I know you're 16 and you might not have made the same choice. ...but he did. Tell me why he could make that choice if it wasn't part of his set of things he'd imagine quickly!

I CERTAINLY DON'T NEED THE SERVICES OF ANY HITMAN TO KILL MY KID. HIS ASS IS GRASS.