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

Jun 3, 2019
7:06:38am

unctoothman All-American

Gimme a break. He's 9. If he's halfway been brought up right (which I'm sure blackandblue and his wife have done) the kid is beating himself up more than anything his dad can do. Your approach is beating a dead horse.

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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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