To be shock at the parents on the 999 show on channel 4

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Watching now. Teenagers being arrested. Parents seem to think that's fine and part of growing up. I cannot believe people like that exist...

I meant 'their' obviously [blush{

Ffs

Tee hee

KatieScarlett, the difference with you and the parents in the 999 programme is that you tried to stop your dd. You didn't just give up and go I can't stop her. You tried everything you could and you ask for help.

The parents in the programme to me just seemed so apathetic. And also they didn't actually seem to veiw their children's behaviour as wrong in the first place. It was almost as if they saw it as a rite of passage, and that the police should do their role of parenting.

I have worked with families and teenagers, but I am still shocked by programmes like this. Shocked and saddened.

Colour me cynical and wrap me in Whatever but
I may be wrong.
This could be a little 'out-there'
But I suspect
That the cases in the show were chosen and edited for a reason.
And it wasn't an altruistic one

That incident with the rolling baby was very fishy ,

Who was that man?
Where did he go?

some very basic questions were not asked.

I saw this program me too, could not believe a parent had not noticed her two year old had gone missing! I I would have been frantic, my ds (now 10 year old) was 6 or 7 and went 'missing' or so i thought until I looked under his duvet to find him fast asleep. I had sent his older brother and sister looking (his Dad was at work that Saturday)for him around the estate and ased at all the neighbours if they had seen him.

Nowadays he goes to his friends but he MUST tell me where he is and has to be back before dark. He has a cheap mobile phone so if he needs he can phone me. On Friday he was planning to go on this rope swing but I banned him (he wasn't too thrilled about that but I have rules and as it is next to the canal and I did not want to sit in A and E on a Friday evening with him having any broken limbs, I banned it) so he ended up at his friend's on the PS3.

He knows that if he gets in trouble with the police he would have me to deal with so he behaves more or less most of the time. If we had more parents taking more notice of their kids' behaviour, the emergency services wouldn't be wasting their valuable time picking up stray toddlers.