"Parents lie to children" shocker!

[threebikesmcginty]

Since when were the police sole authority on poor behaviour? This simply perpetuates the ruinous attitude that unless there's a likelihood of the police being involved, people don't have to adhere to rules. Try telling her she has to go to school because you says she has to... after all, it's actually your responsibility to get her to school.

If it helps to balance things out I tell my kids it's not worth telling the police anything as they'd do bugger all about it anyway.*



*not really.

 

[Sillyoldman]

Oh I am shattered by the number of posts saying along the lines of everybody lies.
Surely this cannot include Call me Dave Camoron and Georgie boy can it? Or as my world just ended.

 

[CopperCyclist]

I just wish it wasn't the case that I probably go to at least one job a shift where effectively, someone has rang us up saying they can't control their child. I'm not talking evil sixteen year olds holding parents hostage with a knife here, I'm talking "My sixteen year old son won't get out of bed and has told me to eff off".

I'm notoriously unhelpful for these jobs. I'm sure there probably a parenting forum somewhere slagging off the police because of how bad I was when I turned up and basically did nothing. My favourite line is "I'm afraid I'm not a parent, I've never raised children so I can neither give you advice nor do anything to help you."

When did we start answering these 'calls for service'?

 

[summerdays]

I've never threaten mine with the police (at least not that I can remember), I think I have pointed out to them that if they didn't go to school regularly then I would be in trouble with the authorities (which is true), and I have done the "I am going now" and left them having a tantrum and gone to a place where I could observe and intervene if necessary. How else do you get them to shift if they refuse - by force? (I am talking about the toddler phase here).

And haven't we all been proud of their first scribbles (even when we had to be told what it was), if we just told them it was a mess, they would be unlikely to keep on doing it. Equally my children have experienced failure and the fact that life isn't fair to each of them. It is about being balanced.

 

[tyred]

My parents never lied to me.

I look forward every year to the fat guy in the red suit coming down my chimney and putting presents in my socks.

 

[Brandane]

I just wish it wasn't the case that I probably go to at least one job a shift where effectively, someone has rang us up saying they can't control their child. I'm not talking evil sixteen year olds holding parents hostage with a knife here, I'm talking "My sixteen year old son won't get out of bed and has told me to eff off".

I'm notoriously unhelpful for these jobs. I'm sure there probably a parenting forum somewhere slagging off the police because of how bad I was when I turned up and basically did nothing. My favourite line is "I'm afraid I'm not a parent, I've never raised children so I can neither give you advice nor do anything to help you."

When did we start answering these 'calls for service'?

Your controller actually sends you to these type of calls? I am shocked. Even when I was in the job, 11 years ago, that would have been killed off at control room (or even switchboard operator!) level and resulted as "advice given" - if it was even logged. In these days of ever less resources to attend calls, in Strathclyde at least, I would imagine it would result in the caller being given some sound advice regarding the function of the Police. I was briefly a controller but soon learned that it was the worst job a PC could possibly do, so escaped back out onto the street!

 

[Davidc]

When I was at junior school I liked it so much my mum used to threaten me with not letting me go to school.

When I found out about truant officers I replied to the threat with one to phone him. I can still remember that that was a big mistake.

 

[Sara_H]

I just wish it wasn't the case that I probably go to at least one job a shift where effectively, someone has rang us up saying they can't control their child

You're kidding?

 

[vernon]

You're kidding?

I don't think he is. Some of my school's pupils have the community constable turn up to turf them out of bed to come to school.

 

[Maz]

I took my kids to visit my mum in Sheffield recently. I pointed out 'the scary cellar' to the kids...
"See that cellar? When I was a kid, when I misbehaved, my mum used to lock me in there with the snakes."
"Theres no snakes in there, dad!" they replied.
"Yeh, not any more. I killed them all!"

 

[Cheddar George]

On a lighter note, i educated my children by telling them that "Battery Point" in Portishead was the last place that merchant seaman departing form Cardiff and Bristol could buy batteries for the voyage.

 

[Davidc]

On a lighter note, i educated my children by telling them that "Battery Point" in Portishead was the last place that merchant seaman departing form Cardiff and Bristol could buy batteries for the voyage.

Why did they need batteries? Did they have electric boats?

 

[CopperCyclist]

You're kidding?

I'm not kidding, however I meant to say 'a set' rather than a shift - I.e. once every six days.

It's not always 'won't get out of bed', sometimes its 'has smashed the house up' (read thrown stuff about), sometimes it's 'has assaulted their sibling' and others it's the favourite 'is uncontrollable, we can't cope, take him away'.

On arrival it's always a parenting issue rather than a criminal one. It's disheartening how many parents will openly ask us to it their children into care whilst standing in front of them - and they wonder why their relationship with their children fails?

 

[Sara_H]

On a lighter note, i educated my children by telling them that "Battery Point" in Portishead was the last place that merchant seaman departing form Cardiff and Bristol could buy batteries for the voyage.

We go by the power station at Ratcliffe on soar quite often, my son has falen fot my cloud factory explaination hook, line and sinker!
My other half told his kids that apple cores exploded if you chucked them out of a car window when travelling.

 

[Sara_H]

I don't think he is. Some of my school's pupils have the community constable turn up to turf them out of bed to come to school.

OMG! A teenager asleep in bed is a beautiful thing, its when they wake and emerge the trouble starts!