Potty accidents should not be fatal

A super-harsh punishment for going number one in your pants

Potty training is hard enough, and any one in their right mind would know that negative reinforcement is only going to make it harder. Unfortunately, one couple visiting Florida with their 3-year-old son was way out of their minds when they decided to beat their son for peeing his pants.

The beating led to his death, and this poor boy must have suffered imaginably. Not only did they take turns beating him for an hour, but as he lay dying they ordered pizza and watched a movie. Finally, around 5 a.m. the Mean Mom found herself having trouble sleeping because of the boy's wheezes (or maybe her conscience got the best of her, but I doubt it) and called 911.

This is one of those stories that you don't want to think about too much, because that leads to questions like "What was this child's life like before this night?" Thinking about that is enough to make you scream and cry at the same time.

The couple was arrested and charged with child abuse, first-degree murder and child neglect. The man has a history of violence against both women and children. The MM was on suicide watch.

A link to the story as it appears on cfnews13.com appears below

Sorry, I didn't make it

Never, ever put anything on the roof of your car when you are stoned

Especially not your baby

We have all done it — stoned or not. Whether it was a cup of coffee, a pair of sunglasses or a cell phone, it ended up on the roof of the car while we were fumbling for our keys and piling the kids into the car, and we drove off with it still hanging out up there.

Some of us were lucky. The item remained on the roof, lodged between the roof rack and a crack in the door, or it fell off only to be found with a backtrack and stopping of traffic.

Others of us were not.

Such is the case of a Phoenix, AZ, Mean Mom who left her 5-week-old bundle of joy on the roof of her car. He ended up getting bumped off the roof and landing in the middle of the street at 12:45 a.m.

He was buckled into his car seat, which probably helped him survive his wild ride, and thankfully he was treated and released to CPS and no injuries were reported. To give the young MM some credit, she did realize her baby was missing (12 miles later, ahem) and went back to look for him. This is when the police arrested her and she admitted to have smoked marijuana earlier in the night.

There is all kinds of wrong going on here, especially the juicy bit where they note that her baby's daddy was arrested less than two hours earlier after he was pulled over for driving all swervy-wervy and almost causing an accident. The MM and their child were in the car at the time.

You would think that after you and your infant are driven home by the police at midnight that you would put  the wee one to sleep and get yourself to bed — babies tend to get up early and a lot — but this brilliant girl got in the car and drove to a friend's house. I bet she wishes she stayed home now.

I am curious as to what kind of car she drives, because she is either super tall or drives a really small car to be able to comfortably place a baby in a car seat on the roof. I never bothered with those removable seats, but my first choice would be the ground. Not too much risk of losing him to gravity resting him there.

I am sure there is more to the story — there always is — but because of quite a few bad decisions a baby boy is missing out on his mom.

See video of her day in court and read more of the story  on azcentral.com:

Look ma, no hands!

School is bad enough

And then your mom drags you there by your belt while she is driving her car

Yikes, some moms are harsh. I mean, what is the worst thing you have ever done to your kid after he missed the bus? Called him a bad name? Told him he had to stay home? Begrudgingly drove him there yourself?

If you answered yes to one of the above suggestions, good for you. You are not nearly as bad as the mom who decided to pull her child along side her car by his belt, forcing him to keep pace with her as she drove, all the way to school.

I assume, if you are taking the bus, you must live a mile or more from the school. So this mom held or attached (the article does not specify) her 9-year-old's belt while she sat in a comfy driver's seat for at least that far. You would think that after a block or two you may say to yourself, "OK, he learned his [harsh] lesson," but not this Mean Mom. She drove very slow so her son could keep up (awwww) and taught him the lesson of his life: I am a lunatic.

Way to make your kid hate you and school, Mean Mom.

Hey, there is a video, too. Watch and read more here.

ROLE REVERSAL

10-year-old shoots mom in head, she's dead, he's in "denial"

Every so often, you come across a story where you are not sure whose fault the bad outcome is. In this case, was it the mom's fault for allowing her 10-year-old to keep a .22  caliber rifle plus three other weapons found in his bedroom, or her son's fault for deciding to shoot her in the head with the .22.

According to the boy's uncle, the mother and her son fought about his performing the chore of carrying in firewood, and the boy's refusal turned into the last time he would ever say "no" to his mom. He shot her in the head with the .22 and then went to a neighbor's house to report it.

To the mom's credit, she did argue with her husband about their boy being in possession of the weapons, which once belonged to his grandfather. She wanted them out. He wanted them in. In the end, Dad is the one who moved out, and the guns remained on the gun rack mounted on the boy's bedroom wall.

The boy had some behavioral problems. When he was 6 he was disciplined at school after hitting his principal in the face and chest with a dustpan. He was transferred to a school for kids with special needs after that. More recently, a bus driver was called out by his mom for grabbing him by the back of the jacket while trying to control him from being disruptive.

Though there is a history of poor behavior, nothing violent was noting, making one wonder what would have been the outcome of the firewood fight if mom had won and there were no guns in the house. He has put in a plea of "denial," which I read is the same as saying "not guilty."

Sadly, we don't know, and now this boy has to live with the knowledge that he killed his mom. His sister, who was in the house at the time of the incident, will never forget what he did.

Read more about the story at usatoday.com by clicking here.

BAD DAD UPDATE

photo by Gabriella Fabbri

Mad dad bites off son's penis ----------------- WHAT???

I thought, this just has to be a joke. Not true. Bad headline. I wish.

For a woman, I am pretty protective of my sons' penises. They get red, I apply cream. They mindlessly yank on them too hard, I tell them to stop. They say it stings when they pee, I take them to the doctor. I would not as much cut their foreskin off, never mind bite off the entire member.

I still cannot believe what I am reading. There is so much that is wrong with this story.

First, Bad Dad was walking down a street in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China with his 6-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter. The kicker — they were all naked.

Am I missing something? Is there a tradition of walking naked through the streets of China. Googling "Walk naked China" delivers quite a few videos and stories, so maybe?

Second, the reason why Bad Dad was mad was because the boy refused to bite his penis. I do not know why the man wanted to have his penis bitten, but I have a feeling he wanted his  to remain attached to his body. Sadly, this boy's punishment for not obeying was having his penis bit off by his own father.

The quick action of passing citizens saved the boy, whose penis was reattached (it as retrieved from a bush where it had been thrown). There is no way of knowing whether he will have lifelong physical problems or not yet. Obviously, his psychological problems will be bad enough. Too bad the little guy will continue to suffer.

The 32-year-old man had money problems, his wife left him in 2010 after a failed business venture and he had some serious parenting issues. Obviously, this Bad Dad has mental problems. I hope he and his kids get help and stay safe.

A link to the story on huffingtonpost.com appears below. There, you can click through to the original story at shanghaidaily.com.

Messed up for life

Punishment for soiling themselves: death and hypothermia

photo by Alexander Hjorth

Lazy, mean, drunk people act in the most irresponsible way

Picture this. Location: winter in Barrow, Alaska, the most northernmost city in the United States. Scenario: two little girls, a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old, wet their beds in the night. The room is a wee bit stinky, so drunk Bad Boyfriend and Mean Mom (we do not know for sure if she was there) decide to open the bedroom window even though it is 30 degrees below freezing outside. The door is locked from the outside and the adults pass out after polishing off two bottles of bootleg alcohol.

Now the 3-year-old is dead. The 1-year-old was treated at a local hospital and released to relatives.

When the story was first reported by the Alaska Daily News, it said the children were beaten, but as the investigation unraveled, it became apparent that this was a case of extreme abuse, neglect and some seriously poor priorities. The Mean Mom told one story. Bad Boyfriend told another story. In the end the horrible truth of what happened emerged, and it seems like more of the story is not being released. Like, where was Mean Mom that night? How did she not know there was a chill in the air? She really just left for work without checking on her children?

Charges including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide are being brought up against both. Bad Boyfriend is also being charged with second-degree murder and assault charges. He was arrested last month.

There is so much wrong here.

The children were found naked. Um, ever hear of a diaper? Towel? Pillowcase? Anything that would have helped these poor girls to not soil themselves so the lazy-ass “caregivers” wouldn’t have had to bother with a middle-of-the night changing anyway. Jeez, how about some clothing at least.

But no, these kids did not even have bedding or blankets in the room. Or a way out. The latch was” broken.” Yeah, right. By the sound of these “parents” they probably rigged it so they could keep the kids locked in there. A whole other issue is: Who locks kids that young in a bedroom. Kids need supervision people. But, I am getting away from the story.

Mean Mom was a school teacher, so obviously some money was available for clothing. A SCHOOL TEACHER? Really? You would think she would have a bit more compassion for kids. Especially her own kids.

Bad Boyfriend’s last wife had passed on -- she claims she feared for her safety around him – and their three kids were staying in the house as well. I guess Mean Mom should have picked a better man.

As of this writing, Mean Mom is on the “lam” and Bad Boyfriend is in custody. A link to a more detailed story in the Alaska Daily News is below and below that is a link to photos of the cute little girls from dailymail.co.

Baby, it’s cold outside

How can you make something so cute so cold?

Mean Moms and meth do not mix

Holy crap, there is a video

Thankfully, the video only shows what happened prior to this Mean California Mom shooting and killing her two children,  her babies daddy's cousin and herself, and wounding the kid's dad.

It features this Mean Mom and another man (the cousin) smoking methamphetamine, and the time stamp on the iPad it was recorded on indicates it was taken just hours before the dad did his bloody stumble out of their pretty nice apartment in a pretty decent complex. Hey, there was a playground.

The couple seemed "normal" to neighbors — don't they all? Yet, inside their shared walls police found lots of cash, meth, guns and misery.

The Mean Mom had apparently lost a baby a year or so ago, was unable to get over it. Instead of find her help, her "family" allowed her to drown her sorrows in drugs. Now her other babies are dead, and so is she.

What a shame.

A link to the story as it appears on azcentral.com is below.

Meth will mess you up