When your child’s probation officer calls your child a nut case, that’s not a good thing.

Why do some parents ignore warning signs that scream out to everyone else? It blows my mind how much a parent is willing to ignore-gloss.over-tolerate-pretend.doesn’t.happen! I just listened to an someone tell me about her child’s arrest for possession of an illegal substance. Never mind that the substance was illegal. I’m a rule follower, so the law is enough to deter me. Apparently, not all people follow this simple philosophy. The child is a minor (but not by much), and she “knows [the child] uses it occaisionally” and that she is “okay with that.” She went on and on about how the police officer didn’t have probable cause to search  her child and that she’ll fight it.

IS SHE NUTS??!!!

This is the same kid who threw a chair at an adult in his/her high school last year. This is the same kid who was handcuffed by a law-enforcement-relative for out-of-control behavior. This is the same kid who knew his/her severely ill mother was having a critical medical situation and did nothing to help her. More than once.

Does she think that by some miracle this child will change? Wake up responsible at 18? Actually move out?

When your child’s probation officer calls your child a nut case, that’s not a good thing.