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My mom would have not bothered to call the cops if I did something like that. Getting a beat-down from her is far scarier than landing in the pokey.

Of course, he was the police...

1. The "teen" is 19. He's an adult, living at home and playing video games. His mommy unplugged his game because he's didn't come down for dinner?
2. The nineteen year old is behaving like a thirteen year old.
3. Mommy shoves him aside because he's in her way?
Now, I can understand Mommy not smacking him down. If she had, he could have called the cops and filed assault charges. But, it sound like that kid never got any discipline.
Randomanthony wrote: "(although, to be fair, a lot of us probably acted like that when we were his age)"
I was living in another town, visiting my mom on weekends at that age.
I was living in another town, visiting my mom on weekends at that age.
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I love this. "I have, everyone has, they love it."

Me, too, except make that visiting twice a year or so.

No.
Well, then why did you?
'CAUSE I'M SIXTEEN AND MY PARENTS WERE OUT OF TOWN, DUMBASS!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwql6_...
I so want to punch that kid...several times.
The taco throwing kid should be happy that he wasn't logged into the chat server when it all went down.
I hated that, tadpole, but I couldn't stop watching it! Now I hate everything.

I doubt you ever shoved your Mom or threw food in her face. This should not happen. My son would never do that...it wouldn't get to that point (I'd smack him upside the head first!) j/k. I agree...something is wrong in this household, and it seems that discipline was never really in place.

I wonder if she's a single mother who's trying to keep it together as her son approaches adolescence. My stepmother went through a difficult phase with my bro, and she was doing it on her own. She's told me several times that in hindsight, when she had the opportunity to have the police bring him to jail for the night, she should've. She didn't, though.
I think there's considerably more to this dynamic than just a 12 year old spoiled brat, an xbox, and a taco.

I'm a single mom, and my son's a teenager, but the dad is also in the picture.
and it helps.
Yes, but Heidi, he's nineteen!! I'd have something more to say if he were twelve, but at nineteen, no.

My bro was 18/19 when he was at the pinnacle of his disruptive behavior. He was still living at home, dropped out of school, was getting in over his head with drugs, and guilted her into feeling like it was all her fault and she was the ONLY person he could still trust in his life. Dad wasn't in the picture. Having a positive male role model in the picture makes a huge difference. When they're visibly absent, misogyny can result. My bro's learned the hard way and is a totally different person now - considerably more thoughtful, mature... and grateful.
All I know for certain is that it seems this kid's gonna have to learn respect and integrity the hard way, and that sucks all around because it doesn't have to be that way.
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