Couldn't help but LAUGH!
DH and I got into a heated argument Friday night b/c he's taking SS11 to watch his 'girlfriend' do some karate thing in a couple of weeks. I don't really care but DH is always making snide comments about how my BS14 is too young to have a 'girlfriend' until he's old enough to drive there isn't much point. I obviously think it's kind of a double standard that he's endorsing SS11 having one. He claims it's different b/c they don't do stuff together outside of school.
So, DH went Friday to p-up skids and came home with just SD. He said SS11 wanted to see a movie with some friends and the BM would bring him to our house after the movie. I HATE last minute plan changes and even though it didn't really effect me (I had plans of my own) I was annoyed by it and the fact that DH allowed it. So, I started asking who was going and made some comment about the GF probably going and DH says that only his 'guy friends' were going and I was just looking for a fight. So, I decide to invoke the NOT MY KID, NOT MY PROBLEM rule and let it go.
So, fast forward to tonight and we are taking the skids home. I ask SS11 about the movie and if BM stayed with him or one of the other parents and he tells us that there were no adults there, just the kids - these are 11 YEAR OLDS! Then he lets it slip that he was sitting next to his GF!! Imagine that....I was right! I couldn't help but smile as DH got PISSED. Seems the perfect SS didn't tell the complete truth to DH about who would and wouldn't be attending! I wonder how much of the truth BM knows? DH is pissed that she would drop him off without any adults being present on a Friday night at a busy theater at his age. He claims he's going to call her tomorrow and let her have it....I doubt that will happen but I'll repeat.....NOT MY KID, NOT MY PROBLEM! I was smiling all the way home!
I can just see a whole load of problems in my future with this kid! Don't get me wrong, he's not a 'bad' kid, he makes good grades, but he has a mouth on him and he's sneaky and not trustworthy in my opinion. He needs boundaries and parents that care enough to check up on him and what he's doing. Every time I walked into the living room this weekend and he was on e-mail with his GF he would quickly shut the browser window.....something's up but it's not my job to find out what.
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He may not be a bad kid, but
He may not be a bad kid, but I assure you good kids do bad things and make bad choices that they don't understand when they have a permissive parent that lets them get by with it.
What type of moron drops off
What type of moron drops off 11 years olds at the movies?! Just wow. Now let me ask you a question...are you sure that DH did not know the GF was going and just lied to you so he did not look like an idiot?
I agree good kids make bad
I agree good kids make bad decisions all the time. That's why we as parents are supposed to monitor them more closely.
No way in HECK I would have let SS do the movie thing solo at that age. He could have sat in different part of the theater, he could have MAYBE gone to see one movie while I wathced another but I'm sure as heck wouldn't have dropped him off at a mall/theater by himself. Even at 14 I would only let him go with his GF because her mom was going to be at the same theater at a different movie starting and ending about the same time. All of which I verified directly with the GF's mom before agreeing! It's called parenting 101.
DH definitely didn't know b/c he let SS have it pretty good in the car. SS was saying "What's the big deal, it's not like we kissed or anything". DH hadn't said anything about that being the reason so I suspect he very well might have kissed her. DH called SS out about only giving him his guy friends names when he was listing who all was going and leaving out the girls and SS admited it was because he thought he wouldn't be able to go. That proves to me that he put some serious thought into deceiving his parents. I'm still curious to find out if BM actually knew who was and wasn't going to be there.
If these parents don't start checking up on SS, he's going to get out of hand QUICK. My kids are far from perfect but trust is the one thing that we do have. Not because they are so willing to be honest (they are kids), but because they know that I can read their e-mails, FB, text messages at ANY TIME so they'd better be forthcoming with any information they are providing to me!