Prayers! A not-so-easy suggestion:

Jun 2, 2019
11:42:46pm

NorthwestCoug All-American

Don’t let your anger be taken out on your son. He will always remember this day and feel bad. Don’t let his memory include your anger.

I wish I’d taken my own advice when my kids were younger

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Rough night tonight. My 10 yo daughter had a concussion in January. It has taken

blackandblue

6/2/19 11:37pm

Geez that's dangerous behavior. 🙁

SandYFan

6/2/19 11:40pm

Prayers! A not-so-easy suggestion:

NorthwestCoug

6/2/19 11:42pm

Great advice. I recall several instances when my dad laid into me harshly and I

Q-grr

6/2/19 11:46pm

Great advice. I laid into him pretty hard right when it happened. It was

blackandblue

6/2/19 11:51pm

You did right. That's a very scary thing he did. But also it would

777

6/3/19 12:13am

There should be significant punishment - but *not* angry emotional punishment.

Game Changer

6/3/19 12:31am

Easy for me to say from my vantage point, but he likely already has his punishme

Crazy Joe Davola

6/3/19 3:59am

No. He needs further. Loss of all activities and privileges until his sister

Blue Ghost

6/3/19 5:35am

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Saxa

6/3/19 6:08am

My take on loss of privileges - don’t take away the good things.

Joe Banks

6/3/19 6:54am

That’s good feedback. My daughter is in the middle of her end of season softball

blackandblue

6/3/19 8:30am

Yup, eye for an eye. Treat him like a Pharisee would. Definitely the way to go.

unctoothman

6/3/19 7:06am

I agree to an extent, but disagree in that I would want the length of the

StarMan

6/3/19 8:38am

(edited because of a poor word choice. sorry for the few of you who read it

StarMan

6/3/19 8:40am

Some people ridicule and make fun of others and do

Blue Ghost

6/3/19 10:39am

I'd be more rude if my parents offered the same lesson to be honest.

shimmy

6/3/19 11:17am

This is a great solution

Alpi Gusto

6/3/19 2:37pm

I'm sure he doesn't think everything is okay.

Belboz

6/3/19 11:32am

I'd didn't say to pat him on the head and say "it's no big deal". Not at all.

unctoothman

6/3/19 12:04pm

As a parent, my thoughts have changed over time. Now it's all about what...

Eddie

6/3/19 9:30am

He's a 9 year-old boy and probably hates himself right now.

Belboz

6/3/19 11:21am

When my daughter smashed the cup my son was drinking out of into his face. I was

AFewThoughts

6/3/19 7:42am

This was a very atypical move by him. And I know he didn’t intend the consequenc

blackandblue

6/3/19 8:33am

This seems to be an important aspect, but that behavior would be atypical

SouthernCoug

6/4/19 3:43am

But I realize you know your son and these are all just uninformed musings

SouthernCoug

6/4/19 3:51am

Your response sounds a lot like D&C 121:43-44. Sometimes a hard response is

TailgateU

6/3/19 8:12am

Have him take care of as many of her needs as possible as she recovers...

Fdnman

6/3/19 9:03am

I'd get so many spankings for that.

AlphaCoug

6/3/19 9:36am

I agree that he has probably learned the greatest lesson

LCcoug

6/3/19 10:37am

My dad would’ve whooped my yewt so hard I wouldn’t have been able

Gerald-DeGroot

6/3/19 1:50am

Prayers up

Gerald-DeGroot

6/3/19 1:49am

Double bad. So sorry four your daughter, and to happen like that. Wow

SouthernCoug

6/3/19 3:55am

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AFewThoughts

6/3/19 6:19am

Lots of great advice though I'm not certain neither my wife nor I

Archaea

6/3/19 7:57am

you may want to check out Cognitive FX in Provo

korihor

6/3/19 8:29am

We’ve seen them as well as every other concussion clinic in the valley. She is

blackandblue

6/3/19 8:37am

My goodness. Prayer for her!

ABN RGR

6/3/19 9:09am

When I was young, I hit my sister in the head with a rock. Seeing the injury

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