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

Mom gets up, kills baby, hides body, goes back to sleep

Her beauty sleep was more important than her 1-year-old

Anyone with a kid under age 5 is going to tell you how sleep does not come easy. Your kid cries and you must get up and dry her eyes. A cough heard through the monitor is enough to rattle you out of a deep sleep.

Tending to your child night and day is something good parents do. Sleeping through a child crying is something most good parents cannot do, which is something our latest Mean Mom realized, so she did what she had to to catch some much-needed Zs.

She killed her baby, of course.

After beating her poor, little 1-year-old baby boy to death because he was crying in his crib, she hid his body in some nearby bushes, and then did what came natural: She went back to bed.

The story she told police was ridiculous. Last time she saw the boy was at 10:30 the night before, when she put him to bed, implying that she did not check on him all night. In fact, she claimed that she did not realize he was missing until 11 a.m. the next morning, which is when she woke up.

Maybe if she put her child to bed a little earlier, he would have slept a little better. Maybe not, but hey worth a shot. It kind of makes sense to keep a later schedule, especially since this Mean Mom obviously liked to sleep late herself, but I do not know any 1-year-old that will sleep past 9 a.m. no matter when bedtime is.

No prior abuse was detected, which makes this seem like a one-time failure, but what a huge failure it was. Friends of hers cannot believe she did it. But she did. She killed her baby, lied about it and let a team of 100 officers search for him even though she knew where his tiny body lay.

I'm glad she was able to grab a full eight that night. I hear that the sleeping in jail is not even that good. She will find that out soon enough.

A link to the story as it appears on hlntv.com (and a photo of this Mean Mom) is below.

I'm trying to sleep

Running a child to death

These two are in training for worst grandmother and stepmother of the year

Now, I've heard of top athletes keeling over in the middle of a marathon, but not 9-year-old girls dying from running. But this girl's death happened under special circumstances. Sick, inconceivable, special circumstances.

Apparently, this 9-year-old's grandmother and stepmother thought that lying about eating candy was worth her life. As punishment for cleaning out the candy cabinet and saying she did not, this Alabama girl was forced to run. And run and run and run. No water, no stopping — until she literally fell over after having a seizure three hours later. She died a few days later at a local children's hospital. An autopsy revealed extreme dehydration and low sodium levels.

It is just me, or is this cruel and unusual punishment to the max? I'm a runner. I actually like running, but I know at least 10 people off the top of my head who don't. I certainly would not — scratch that, could not — run for three hours without weeks and weeks and weeks of training. Now, looking at this mean duo, I can be pretty sure they fall into the non-runner group, which does not give them the excuse of ignorance. Not to mention it looks like the little girl needed that candy more than they did.

A pathologist ruled her death a homicide, and both her grandmother and stepmother were arrested.

Sadly, before the 911 call was placed, a few concerned neighbors called the sheriff's office to express their concern over the girl's running. One man saw her running around 4 p.m. (the 911 call went in at 6:45. I can't believe they let this poor girl run after sundown), and he is quoted as saying, "But I don't see how that would kill her."

A link to the news story appears below.

No water for you