(December 19, 2012 at 11:31 am)Tiberius Wrote: That was a terrible article summer. I read it the other day; it's despicable...effectively lumping all children with mental health issues into the same camp as people who commit these atrocities. No, the writer of that article is not Adam Lamza's mother; she is not Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris' mother either. She is the mother of a mentally ill son, and should not make the massive assumptions she is making about him.
Um...
Quote:A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books.
This kid is a ticking bomb, Tibs. He's 13. What will he be like when he's 18 or 20?
Even if the family got a PINS ( Person in Need of Supervision) Petition approved by a family court it would terminate when he was 18. Then what? I'll save you the trouble. There is no answer.
There is probably a natural human tendency for a parent to try to shrug off the behavior of an abusive child but the author of this piece is not one of them. She is confronting the reality of her own kid and that takes some guts.
