Who is Nuts? Me…….or My Son
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Before Christmas our son went outside to play with his friends. I had gone out to run a few errands, I came back home started doing things around the house, and then I noticed that someone had left a message on our answering machine. I looked at the caller ID and noticed the number was from one kid whose mother would not let the boy play with her sons because he had bought a game for his Xbox from her garage sale, well the game had some violence in it. I couldn’t believe she would keep them from playing with each other because of that, but hey whatever.
So I go ahead and call the number thinking that the boy wants to stay out longer, like he usually does. The mother answers the phone and I said “hey D, its R how are you?” She responds “well I was doing ok until a few hours ago”. Oh shit what has my boy done now is what I am thinking. She proceeds to tell me that all the boys were playing real good for most of the day and that she didn’t know how to tell me this but that something bad had happened. She had gone outside for a few minutes (I cannot remember for what but it doesn’t matter anyway) she continues saying that she heard someone screaming saying momma momma hurry! She runs in the house to see her eldest son (age 11) holding a knife and the only other person in the kitchen with her kid is my son. My heart dropped thinking my son was hurt, I froze I didn’t know what to say. She said she yelled at her son to drop the knife and wanting to know what the hell was going on. The other boys there told her that her eldest son had her little daughter under a cover and wouldn’t let her out, the little girl started crying and myboy told this kid “hey let your little sister go, the kid told my son to mind his business, my son then tried to tear the blanket away by wrestling with the kid and finally the little girl was able to get out from under the blanket, I guess the kid got pissed and went to get a knife, my son went behind him saying “C” dont’ be mad at me I just wanted you to let your little sister go, and that is when the kid came after my son.
The mother told me that her and her husband have grounded their son for a long time ( I don’t know for how long but even a year isn’t long enough for me) and I told her to send my son home right away, she mentioned that he had left a long time ago, and thought that he was home. Then I thought maybe my son was scarred to death and went somewhere to be alone. The mother kept appologizing saying how sorry she was that her and her husband were just as shocked and embarrassed that their son would do such a thing (I felt like telling her ‘yeah and you are the one you didn’t want MY son playing with your SONS because of the violent game he bought off of YOU, and look who is the violent one”). But I didn’t say anything, I was still to shocked to do anything.
A few minutes later the boy came home and he did look scarred, he said he was ok, but still to have a knife pulled on you, that is pretty scarry. From that day forward I told him that I no longer wanted him to play with those kids, he swore he wouldn’t, but last week as I drove past the kids house on my way to the office and I noticed my sons bike there, CAN YOU BELIVE THIS SHIT? I confronted him and you will not believe the answer he gave me, “mom none of my friends were home, and I wanted someone to play with”. I wanted to beat the crap out of him! Again today we were arguing and he mentioned that I wont even let him play with “C”, I responded back “gee R, I am so sorry that I love you to much that I forbid you to play with that kid! What the hell is wrong with this kid! I told him the first time was a knife who knows what will happen next time and I don’t plan to find out. I cannot believe that he is mad at me, I am trying to protect my young and I am the bad guy. He even said “people do change mom”.
I am so angry right I now I don’t know what to do. My kid is totally NUTS!!!
