Parenting Fail

In NC, basketball is the semi-official state religion, and way too many parents hope think know that their kid is the next MJ.  I’d bet that this woman is one of them:

RALEIGH, N.C. — The mother of a middle school basketball player has been charged with assault after smacking the coach who took her son out of a game.

The News & Observer reported Thursday that the woman was charged with assault on a government official after the Monday night incident.

Wake County schools spokesman Greg Thomas says the woman’s son was taken out of the game between Millbrook and East Wake middle schools. Thomas says the woman yelled at East Millbrook Coach Chris Kwolek and came from the stands and hit him on the back of his head.

I’m not sure what is worse in this story. That Latoya Bradley was teaching her kids how to steal at WalMart, or that she ditched them and fled the scene when confronted.

Big snakes and small kids don’t mix:

A Las Vegas toddler was pulled from the jaws of an 18-foot-long, 300 lb snake.

“That was the only thing I was thinking was I need to try and save this kid’s life,” neighbor Marlo Vinson said. Vinson was the first neighbor in the apartment complex to try and help the toddler’s mother free him from the snake’s grasp.

“That’s when I saw the 3-year-old on his knees with the snake constricted around him,” Metro’s Sergeant Steve Custer explained. “I’ve been a police officer for 36 years and I’ve never seen anything like this ever.”

Fortunately, the kid survived.
Unfortunately, the snake didn’t.
Fortunately, the parents may be facing child endangerment charges.

Via Pharyngula

These parents are rightly on trial in the death of their 11 year old daughter due complications from diabetes. She needed insulin, not prayer.

I oppose capital punishment for all cases at all times. That being said, I’m not sure I’d be opposed to staking these “parents” on top of a fire ant mound.

The parents of a 13-year-old who died when he was left tied to a tree are expected in an Edgecombe County court on murder and felony child abuse charges.

Brice McMillan told a deputy that he and his wife, Sandra, left Tyler McMillan tied to a tree and forced him to sleep outside on June 10 because he was being disobedient. Tyler McMillan was released the next morning, but again tied up that night for bad behavior.

Authorities said the boy’s stepmother found him unresponsive the following afternoon.

An autopsy report says the boy’s body temperature was 105.6 degrees when he arrived at the hospital, his body was full of insect bites and he likely died from dehydration, heat stroke or a combination of both.

This is something that this parent of the year nominee didn’t understand when he went to the police for help after the buyer did not deliver on the $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat that he was promised in exchange for his daughter.

Several cases of meat?

His adoptive parents are something else.

These folks are in jail for something that would appear to have been beyond their control.

WICOMICO CHURCH, Va. — A 6-year-old Virginia boy who missed his bus tried to drive to school in his family’s sedan — and crashed.

His parents were charged with child endangerment.

State police said the boy suffered only minor injuries, and authorities drove him to school after he was evaluated at a local hospital for a bump on his head. He arrived shortly after lunch, Sgt. Tom Cunningham said.

It happened about 7:40 a.m. Monday on Route 360, about 61 miles east of Richmond.

The boy, whose name wasn’t released, missed the bus, took the keys to his family’s 2005 Ford Taurus and drove nearly six miles toward school while his mother was asleep, police said.

The kid “stole” the family car. How exactly did his parents endanger him? By leaving their keys lying around? By allowing him to play GTA? Something doesn’t add up here.

These parent of the year candidates didn’t bother to report their adopted son missing when he disappeared 10 or 11 years ago. It is just coming to light now. Nobody noticed that a kid was missing for 10 years?

This fail is very sad and cost a young girl her life.  It might also cost her father the rest of his life in jail.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho – The father of an 11-year-old girl who died, likely of hypothermia, after trying to walk 10 miles in the snow on Christmas Day has been charged with second-degree murder and felony injury to a child.

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Sage Aragon and her 12-year-old brother, Bear, were with their father on Thursday when his truck got stuck in a snow drift near state Highway 75, north of Shoshone in southcentral Idaho, according to the Lincoln County sheriff’s office.

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After the truck got caught in the snow, authorities allege Aragon let the children out to walk to their mother’s house while he and another adult stayed behind to free the vehicle.

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The little girl was found about 2.7 miles from where the two set out, barely visible under windblown, drifting snow when search dogs located her along a local road about 2 a.m. Friday. She was wearing a brown down coat, black shirt, pink pajama pants and tan snowboots, the sheriff’s office statement said.

“I thought she was alive because they said they found her,” Jenks said. “I was excited.”

The girl was pronounced dead at a Ketchum hospital; preliminary autopsy results indicate she died of hypothermia.

Officials say temperatures in the area at the time the girl was missing ranged from 27 degrees above zero to minus 5.

Life can be so fragile. One stupid decision…

Tip credit: Carole

Meet Diana Rodriguez. Her 12 year old son got dumped by his 12 year old girlfriend, so mom came to the rescue by stabbing the girl’s mother. That’ll teach her.

In other news, 12 year olds have romantic breakups these days.

According to the criminal complaint, the girl’s parents told authorities they believed she had slept on the floor of their daughter’s bedroom and were unaware of any sexual activity.

It didn’t seem odd to these people that a 30 year old teacher was sleeping over with their 17 year old daughter? Oh, the havoc I could have wrecked as a teen with parents this clueless.

Do you…

1) Tell her to practice harder ?
2) Move to a new school district with less talented cheer competition?
3) Sue the school?

If you answered #3, you are correct. Mom is blaming a bullying problem from last year when her daughter was a cheerleader, and some sort of conspiracy to keep her daughter off the squad.

Before filing the case, the mother lost an appeal to the district asking that staff members of the high school be replaced, the cheerleading tryout be investigated, and that the daughter be reinstated to the cheerleading squad.

Driving with a BAC of .23 is bad enough. Doing it with your 3 kids in the car is a serious parenting fail. I sure hope the father of these kids is more responsible than mom.

Looking for the right way to encourage your adult children to develop a deep marital bond? Have you considered luring them home under false pretenses, holding them hostage, and forcing them to marry?

Dr Humayra Abedin, from east London, flew back to Britain this week after being freed by the courts.

She went to the High Court today to begin steps to annul her marriage.

The 33-year-old has confirmed she was forced to marry a man picked out by her parents in a Muslim ceremony in November.

She was held for four months in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.

In a statement released through her lawyers, Dr Abedin said: “I did not consent to the marriage. I have given my solicitors instructions to urgently issue proceedings in this country for a decree of nullity to be obtained on my behalf.”

Dr Abedin came to the UK six years ago to study for a Masters degree in public health at Leeds University.

She had hoped to become a registrar at a GP surgery in east London in August but, after receiving news her mother had taken ill, returned to Dhaka where she was then held captive.

From a heartbreaking profile of a recently retired family court judge in Australia:

After the mother’s death, Mullane had to examine the parenting capacities of all the disputing parties. A dispiriting picture emerged. The maternal grandfather and his partner, according to court reports, lived in a filthy dwelling on a property littered with rubbish, with an unfenced dam, and fierce dogs. The grandfather was illiterate, had been found guilty of minor drug offences, was a heavy drinker, and had bashed his former wife. His partner, also a heavy drinker, had previously lost the care of her own children. They lived on unemployment and disability benefits.

When the judge turned to examine the capacities of Daniel’s father, it was more bad news. He emerged from court reports as an antisocial man who had turned to heroin, like his mother before him. Later he went on methadone. He had severe anxiety attacks and was abusive to his partner. Their baby had been temporarily taken into care. Under pressure in the witness box, the father threw a jug of water.

The father of the two older children was described in a social worker’s early report as demonstrating little insight into his children’s needs and being less than honest. “He clearly has had little time in being the primary carer of his children,” the report said.

He seemed overwhelmed by the task, and the children were unruly. He also used marijuana. Months later, a second report noted a big improvement in his parenting “from a low base” and in his commitment to the children. Not surprisingly, Anabel had major behavioural problems, and Janet was on medication for ADHD, but the father was now involved in their schooling and medical care.

Can we agree that this a parenting fail?

Adolf Hitler Campbell — it’s indeed the name on his birth certificate — turns 3 today, and the Campbell family believes the boy has been mistreated. A local supermarket refused to make a birthday cake with “Adolf Hitler” on it.

Their are other children are named JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell.

The sibling names are not my attempt at being funny. They are real.

The Campbells said they wanted their children to have unique names and didn’t expect the names to cause problems. Despite the cake refusal, the Campbells said they don’t expect the names to cause problems later, such as when the children start school.

As if these kids aren’t screwed enough by their parents, the other kids at school are going to make their lives absolute hell. How soon can they sue for termination of parental rights?

BTW, WalMart has no problem making a birthday cake for Adolph Hitler.

Disabilities, the couple says, have left both out of work: Heath Campbell can’t landscape or pump gas because he has emphysema, and Deborah can’t waitress because she has a bad back. They live on Social Security payments.

I wonder if they even understand what Hitler did with disabled people who were unable to properly serve the Fatherland?

People, getting away from your hovering smothertude is probably the only reason your kids went to college in the first place:

Once upon a time, Facebook was a gathering place for college kids. No one had access to the social networking site, started at Harvard in 2004, without a university e-mail address.

But two years ago, Facebook opened its virtual doors to everyone and now, OMG, parents are everywhere. Adults older than 35 accounted for 3.6 million — 9 percent — of the Facebook demographic last year, and the numbers just keep growing.

Several Facebook support groups have popped up in the past year, including the “And then my Mom joined Facebook” group, organized by “The Bureau of Endangered Generation Gaps” and featuring discussion topics such as “Should I Friend My Mom?” and “What if Grandma Pokes Me?”

What other explanation for this stunning bit of caloric cluelessness?

“We’re seeing too much food and not enough activity,” agrees Pauline Williams, who oversees the Live program. She offers an extreme example of a 5- or 6-year-old in the course who was drinking up to three 2-liter bottles of orange soda a day. The mother “didn’t understand that was bad. Some parents just need a little education.”

Clearly, the conveniences of modern life leave people with too much free time. If this mom was hauling the laundry down to the creek every week she would not have time to whine about Santa and Rudolph being religious figures.