Go Now…GO!!

I was reading through my feeds today. Kalki got me hooked on Firefox’s Sage RSS reader and I am wondering how I got through all the blogs I did before I had this lovely plug-in. Heaven.

If you’re wondering why I hardly ever comment anymore. It’s Kalki’s fault. I blame her completely. I’m just sayin’.

ANYWAY, I started reading KimmyK’s post about her 13 year old son.
Now this is some serious stuff this post that everyone needs to go read and comment on. This is a parent with a question that NEEDS some commenting on.

I commented “I plan on showing up where my kids say they are going to be and if they aren’t there, I plan on finding them and making a scene.
I won’t do it everytime, but it will make them think twice about getting in trouble.”

(why do I keep making the word ‘every time’ one word?)

The Fonz would have done this. She DID do this. I would tell her I was going to so-n-so’s house. SHE WOULD CALL. She would call the mother! The Fonz would drive over there and make sure I was there. She would hold the other parents liable. She insisted that if I was going to be with someone, their parents better be as strict as she was.

You know what? It worked.

I may have been the only kid that never used the ‘I’m staying at Michelle’s house. She’s staying at mine.’ story. I was too afraid that The Fonz would have shown up at their house and busted both of us and beat me in front of my friends when she found me.
I admit, I told her I was going to a friends house to stay the night and then went out with that friend later. I got busted. I got grounded. I got the wrath of The Fonz. Lesson learned. Never did it again.

I respect my mom now. I respected her then. She wasn’t my ‘best friend’…she was my parent and I loved that about her. I needed a parent, not a buddy.
Now don’t get me wrong, The Fonz was fun to hang out with. She always made me laugh and I knew I could talk openly to her about things…but I always knew that if I stepped out of line she would catch me and beat me with her rubber slipper.

As for KimmyK’s dilemma…go read and help a fellow blogger out.