Blame the Mom
Ah, remember the Fifties? When everything was Mom’s fault? And the Sixties, and the Seventies, and the … you get the picture. At some point, however, don’t you have to say, “No, maybe Mom is not exactly June Cleaver, nor Wonder Woman, but might it not be possible that Junior here is just a complete twerp on his own merits?”
Because, you know, Junior here is just a complete twerp on his own merits.
From the original poster on YouTube:
HOW IT ALL STARTED- Some boy named Noah complains that he was trying to get his mom’s attention by poking her arm. His mom gets angry and jabs him back very slightly to tell him to wait… He gets pissed and gets a boo- boo for like 20 minutes… Then they argue on national television for nothing. After intense violence and warfare, Noah slaps his mother across the face… What do you think of this matter? Please respond. Ironically, I think it’s the mother’s fault and other elements that kids are exposed to daily. (School, Media, TV, ect.) However, this child needs to learn respect using his common sense. He has gotten into lots of trouble too. It is quite obvious he is abused and that his family is distorted. He has a single mom and his sister died of cancer. He complains his mother hits and abuses him and then denies it. He and his mother have been fighting for years. Noah has also claimed that he has called the Child Protection Services because of physical abuse. THIS IS THE MOTHER’S FAULT!
Is it, now? Well, I suppose she DID get pregnant in the first place.
I don’t know whether to berate her or admire her restraint for not knocking the little s*** to the floor. I remember my mother putting up with a lot of teenage crap from us (she had 4 kids in 5 years-talk about hell on earth!) But one day, my brother called her a f##king bit#h. She was cooking at the time. I swear I didn’t see that frying pan leave her hand but there was my brother, laid out on the floor with a bleeding head wound. She calmly told him to get up and took him to the emergency room. She said the next time he wouldn’t be that lucky. For the most part, not one of us was disrespectful to mom again. Was it child abuse? Probably. Was it justified? Probably. What disturbed me about this film blip is the mom reacted like this had happened before. There was no shock when junior hit mom. She kept trying to reason with the little bully. When he gets just a little older, she is going to be in serious danger.
No abused child would speak to his mother that way; he would be huddled in a corner, keeping his distance (lest SHE strike HIM), and most likely not even looking her in the eye.
He’s a sociopath if you ask me. I’m rally glad he’s not in my kid’s shcool
I work in a highly competitive school and I KNOW that a lot of my students’ psychoses and assholery stem from their upbringings. HOWEVER, there is a limit and kids who hit their parents have serious issues. I agree with Annalucia; if that kid was really abused, he wouldn’t even be talking to her.
OK, I never use this phrase, but WTF?!?
Obviously, this level of disrespect does not develop overnight, so she has been letting this go for a long time. On that level, she is to blame. Some kids are far more difficult than others and some kids cope with having a single parent better than others, she has no control over that aspect of it. As a single mother, it seems like she needed to reach out for help. My brothers were a handful and as great as my mom is, I can’t imagine her handling them without my dad.