Knife incident

[peasea]

Check this out: Some little turd pulled a knife on my 17 y/o this afternoon. She babysits three boys after school for three hours, 3-6. She has her head screwed on, fortunately, and didn't panic when the youngest of the three decided he didn't want to do his reading homework and thought he'd jump out the window. (He's ADD-HQ or something.) So, she saves him from himself and shortly afterward the turd has a serrated kitchen knife behind his back, dilated pupils and the trembles. Luckily she again kept her cool, grabbed his wrist and the oldest boy also stepped in. Knife gone, panic over, right?

Well my daughter came home with big bags under her eyes coz afterward she'd realised how close she'd come to getting stabbed. (Bawled her eyes out etc)

I've also kept my cool to date but I'm going to meet the father tomorrow and I ain't gonna take any shit. This is my daughter we're talking about.

That kid needs some serious medication and those freakin' knives need to be under lock and key!

What would you do??

[canarlee]

could you get a meal out of said child?


maybe..........

[deanohit]

Pretty much what your talking of doin man. Had my cousin pull a knife on me one time, it aint fun, thats for sure. The kid needs some help.

[peasea]

could you get a meal out of said child?


maybe..........

If I cut him up perhaps

[peasea]

Pretty much what your talking of doin man. Had my cousin pull a knife on me one time, it aint fun, thats for sure. The kid needs some help.

The kid needs a kicking.

[deanohit]

Yep, kicking helps keep them in place as your carving them up.

[RantyDave]

She babysits three boys after school for three hours, 3-6.

Well, she's not doing that anymore, is she? What a nightmare.

Dave

[Skyryder]

Check this out: Some little turd pulled a knife on my 17 y/o this afternoon. She babysits three boys after school for three hours, 3-6. She has her head screwed on, fortunately, and didn't panic when the youngest of the three decided he didn't want to do his reading homework and thought he'd jump out the window. (He's ADD-HQ or something.) So, she saves him from himself and shortly afterward the turd has a serrated kitchen knife behind his back, dilated pupils and the trembles. Luckily she again kept her cool, grabbed his wrist and the oldest boy also stepped in. Knife gone, panic over, right?

Well my daughter came home with big bags under her eyes coz afterward she'd realised how close she'd come to getting stabbed. (Bawled her eyes out etc)

I've also kept my cool to date but I'm going to meet the father tomorrow and I ain't gonna take any shit. This is my daughter we're talking about.

That kid needs some serious medication and those freakin' knives need to be under lock and key!

What would you do??

First of all I'd report the incident to the police. Don't try and rationalise with the father all he'll do is blame your child or deny that the incident took place. Cchances are there may be some incidences at school the the school. If so those trained in these matters will sort this out. Let someone with some professional training deal with this.

Skyryder

[fireball]

do what is best for your daughter... her safety must come first

and kick that little turd up the ass!

[Jantar]

Go with Skyriders advice and report it to the police. (it might help if you hint the offender was exceeding the speed limit at the time).

But certainly don't let your daughter go back there.

[peasea]

First of all I'd report the incident to the police. Don't try and rationalise with the father all he'll do is blame your child or deny that the incident took place. Cchances are there may be some incidences at school the the school. If so those trained in these matters will sort this out. Let someone with some professional training deal with this.

Skyryder

I can do some digging via the MOE.
The cops are too busy dishing out 111kph tickets.

[peasea]

do what is best for your daughter... her safety must come first

and kick that little turd up the ass!

Remove her from the situation, you're right about that.
I'd love to kick the little shithead but (that's about the only thing that will pull the cops off the 111kph speedsters) then I'm the one in the shit.

Nah, if I'm going to kick him I'll wait six months, he won't know what it's about then.

She was so cool about it this evening. She took herself out for a cruise and got some 'self' time. When she came home we had a chat on her bed. So good that a 17y/o can do that with her dad, which makes me all the more determined to get it 'sorted'. I put in the hours when my kids were young, what's this little pricks problem? (I think part of it is business-oriented parents, hence the babysitting thing etc etc....They have heaps of dosh apparently and loads of problems to go with it.)

[Angusdog]

Have a word with your community constable, and your daughter. She'll realise that there's official consequences and authority figures who take this very seriously which may be of some security for her. The other more serious reason is to get an official record of this kid's behaviour, without inflaming the situation out of reason. The kid's dad might want to be in on it too.

It sounds like this kid has serious problems, and needs help - not a kicking, not medication. Some of these actions and how they're dealt with mean the next event could be bigger and more serous than the last. The kid's dad needs to be aware of this, but community constables are a nice medium between inaction and over-the-top reaction. They should also know how to deal with this kid and the agencies who can help.

Good on you for not over-reacting but at the same time letting your daughter know she's okay, and that this behaviour is unacceptable.

[peasea]

Have a word with your community constable, and your daughter. She'll realise that there's official consequences and authority figures who take this very seriously which may be of some security for her. The other more serious reason is to get an official record of this kid's behaviour, without inflaming the situation out of reason. The kid's dad might want to be in on it too.

It sounds like this kid has serious problems, and needs help - not a kicking, not medication. Some of these actions and how they're dealt with mean the next event could be bigger and more serous than the last. The kid's dad needs to be aware of this, but community constables are a nice medium between inaction and over-the-top reaction. They should also know how to deal with this kid and the agencies who can help.

Good on you for not over-reacting but at the same time letting your daughter know she's okay, and that this behaviour is unacceptable.

I thank you for your thoughtful input and you're right; this kid's behaviour IS unacceptable. My daughter has taken it on the chin and even after a couple of bourbons I still don't feel the need to get in my car and go and shoot the fuck but 'community constable' sounds like the soft option to me.

Call me cynical but 'family conference' and 'diversion' smells of tree hugger to me. Back the truck up here; my 17y/o gets stuck by some little wanker coz I didn't do my homework when she was at intermediate? Then what? She knows shit from chewed dates, she took action to defend herself and now we're facing a page full of 'what-ifs'. What if the older boy was out kicking a football, like he usually is? What if she'd had her back turned? The list goes on but I'm thankful I still have my daughter and the longer I think about it the less I'm inclined to involve the law coz it's likely to turn into soft-cock territory. (That's not the cops fault, by the way.....)

If there'd been blood tonight I know for a fact that wet bus tickets would have been dished out by dawn, what's needed here is a big 'Monty Python' shoe from above I say.

[scumdog]

Check this out: Some little turd pulled a knife on my 17 y/o this afternoon. She babysits three boys after school for three hours, 3-6. She has her head screwed on, fortunately, and didn't panic when the youngest of the three decided he didn't want to do his reading homework and thought he'd jump out the window. (He's ADD-HQ or something.) So, she saves him from himself and shortly afterward the turd has a serrated kitchen knife behind his back, dilated pupils and the trembles. Luckily she again kept her cool, grabbed his wrist and the oldest boy also stepped in. Knife gone, panic over, right?

Well my daughter came home with big bags under her eyes coz afterward she'd realised how close she'd come to getting stabbed. (Bawled her eyes out etc)

I've also kept my cool to date but I'm going to meet the father tomorrow and I ain't gonna take any shit. This is my daughter we're talking about.

That kid needs some serious medication and those freakin' knives need to be under lock and key!

What would you do??

Ah, dejavu, just like 'a day at the office' for me.

Take your own advice - get a gun and shoot him.

But first don't let your daughter back there - and pick a better type of client next time too.