What Would Make Him Do This???

[DianaB]

I'd definitely take away the pocketknife too. Who knows why boys do some of the things they do? Sometimes it really doesn't make sense. You might set a jar out and have him start putting money in it ahead of time to help pay for the linoleum. That way his punishment starts now not in the future.

Such as why does a 17 yr. old boy decide to stand on a motorcycle seat when it's going 55 mph down the highway? My son TRIED this one!! He fell off and ended up having surgery on his elbow and spent 4 days in the hospital. I think that he was showing off, but who knows? It made no sense to me!

[Janet]

The whole bad thing is....these boys grow up to be MEN!!!! The stunts they pull is outrageous....His video games have been taken away and I told him that whatever money he receives, half of it comes to me for new linoleum. It doesn't show much now, so it's not like I have to hurry and replace it. I did tell him that the next time he does anything destructive to this house or it's contents..the game system will be out of the house instead of stuck in a closet.

[Lindsey]

Originally Posted by DianaB

Such as why does a 17 yr. old boy decide to stand on a motorcycle seat when it's going 55 mph down the highway? My son TRIED this one!! He fell off and ended up having surgery on his elbow and spent 4 days in the hospital. I think that he was showing off, but who knows? It made no sense to me!

My boyfriend does this all the time, he and his friends go out to this highway and stunt their bikes for hours. He has crashed 3 times (none while stunting, and none his fault), but he still goes and does dangerous stuff all the time. I refuse to even go watch now if he's going to stunt. I hate hearing horror stories about bike accidents!

[khardy57]

Has he recently gotten the knife? I know when my sons were younger, if they got something like they had to try it out immediately. (Just made a bad choice on locations, didn't he)

[DianaB]

My cousin when he was really little got a pocketknife from his dad. My grandparents were watching him for the day and he decided to carve on a little tree that Grandpa had planted in the front yard. When Grandpa found out what he had done he told Mark that he'd better pray that the tree lived or he was in BIG trouble. Later Grandpa found him beside the tree praying. That was about 25years ago and the tree is still there!!!