Mom Arrested for Kicking Kids from Car
April 21, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Family, Parenting
I’m sure many of us have been there and done that, okay not to this extent but thought it. Have you ever drove in a car with two screaming or just fighting/bickering kids in the backseat? Or do you have those precious angels that only read to each other and whisper secrets?
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I have the type that can be pleasant one minute and down right vicious the following. It’s a surprize when this happens but it does happen. I’ve seen her throw a punch, him pinch, etc. I’ve seen the tongue sticking out, ugly faces exchanged and even the name calling. I tell you, I get sick of this from time to time. Most of the time I can ignore it, others I have to get louder than them (I’m normally a low voice girl too) and scream SHUT UP. They never hear requests of stop fighting, be nice, or I’m going to tell your dad. But that loud tone and word silences them for at least two minutes.
A New York mother apparently got sick of this too. Her two daughters, age 10 and 12 were in the backseat fighting and she finally stopped the car and ordered them out. Yes, in New York. She drove off the minute they got out, course the older one ran off after the car and got in. The younger did not, she sat there in the road and cried. A passerby saw her crying, got her an ice cream and called police. The mother, when she went to the police station to pick her daughter up was arrested for child endangerment. What do you think should happen?
My mom did this once. I was the younger and therefore the pickee, always getting blamed, name-calling, hair pulling–all I had to do was be there. Howevever, I wasn’t about to sit there and allow it, so I fought back. When I found myself alone on the street with my older, bigger, louder, angry, vengeful sister and Dad pulled up across the street (safety), it only took seconds for me to be in front of a speeding car. I live, but in pain and mentally deficient and with grand mal seizures (can’t drive, can’t cross the street alone, etc., etc.). Kids have no idea (especially from the junk on TV) how easy it is to damage their tiny bodies–permanently–and how much damage can be done by little things like a backpack to the head or a slip off a curb will land you in front of a car (my sister pushed me once).
There has got to be a better way to teach kids control than losing control.