Hypothetical Parenting Problem ~

[buddy]

You're married and have three children.
Your middle child is a fourteen year old boy.
He's rebellious and does not have a good relationship with his father.
His grandmother is visiting for the weekend.
At breakfast, your youngest daughter, your rebellious son and grandma are in the kitchen.
You enter and say "Good morning!"
Everyone responds with a cordial reply except the son who says, "S'up."
You stare at him and he responds in kind.
A moment of silence, then he says to his grandmother.....
"Woman, make me some eggs."

What do you do?

 

[Cie]

Dial 911 like a robotic arm of the state:00hour

 

[Old School]

I call the podiatrist ...

yes indeed..

they gotta get my foot out of his ass.

 

[saint]

He sits his ass in the kitchen and cooks his grandmother a meal of her choice that night. Or else loses all privileges (phone if he has one, computer, etc).

 

[saint]

Or no hot meals for a week, he can eat cereal 3x/day. He may like it at first but it would get old.

 

[Mr. Poon]

"Grandma if you are going to the trouble, I wouldn't mind some eggs as well."

 

[Skulnik]

You gots to luv rap music.

Nuff Said

Bobby, can you move this comment to the Political Forum?

 

[BobbyBlueChip]

Sounds like someone is trying to send grandma a message.

 

[hedgehog]

14 minutes in time out for being a bad boy :shrug:

 

[One Timer]

A smack across his face, but that is only after my own mother smacks him ten times harder, and my dad kicks his ass.

 

[ImFeklhr]

If he says "woman, make me some eggs" that behavior was probably learned from his own father. So in this case, as the father I would kick my own ass for teaching him to treat women like that.

The "S'up" is just kid stuff he will grow out of. THAT you can use punishment or whatever the hell parents do these days to correct their kids behavior.