(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); This a snippet from an article I read today on Yahoo! News. After reading it, I sat up and said "What the f*ck. Are you f*cking kidding me." I could go on and rant about this, but to be honest, I really don't even care anymore. A link to the full story is at the bottom of my post.

When the Bully Is Your Child

After the police arrested the boys who usurped D.C.'s identity, the parents wrote Marie awkward apology letters. Only one mother phoned, in tears.

No matter how parents see their children, learning of the cruelties they may perpetrate is jarring and can feel like an indictment of their child-rearing.

One afternoon two years ago, Judy, a recent widow in Palm Beach County, Fla., who had been finishing her college degree, helping a professor research cyberbullying, and working in an office, got a call from the middle school.

"Your daughter is involved in a cyberbullying incident," the assistant principal said. "Come down immediately."

Her daughter and two others had made a MySpace page about another middle-schooler, saying she was a "whore," with a finger pointing to her private parts. The young teenagers printed out copies and flung them at students.

Judy rushed to school. Her daughter, a sweet, straight-A student, was waiting in the guidance counselor's office, her arms crossed defiantly.

"I said to her, 'This is a human being,' " Judy recalled. " 'This girl will be destroyed for the rest of her life!' And my daughter just said: 'I don't care. It's all true.' And I bawled while she just sat there."

The school suspended Judy's daughter for three days.

"I did not call the target, I'm ashamed to say," Judy recalled. "I didn't know how to get hold of her. The school wouldn't give me her name, and my daughter wouldn't talk to me."

Once Judy got over her shock, she said, "I had to accept that my daughter had really done this and it was so ugly."

Judy took away her daughter's computer, television and cellphone for months. She tried talking with her. Nothing. There were weeks of screaming and slammed doors.

Meanwhile, the girl's grades dropped. She was caught with marijuana. Judy realized that her daughter had long been bottling up many family stressors: illness and death, financial worries, her mother's exhausting schedule. In reaction, the girl had been misbehaving, including doing the very thing her mother found so abhorrent: cyberbullying.

In time, as Judy took long walks with her daughter, the girl began to resemble the child Judy thought she had known.

When her daughter's grades improved, Judy bought her a puppy. "A lot of people will disagree with me," Judy said, "but I thought, this is a way for her to be responsible for something other than herself, something that would be dependent on her for all its needs."

The girl doted on the puppy. One day, Judy asked: " 'Would you want anyone to be mean to your dog? Throw rocks at Foxy?' "

Her daughter recoiled. Judy continued: " 'How do you think other parents feel when something mean happens to their children?' Then she broke down crying. That's when I think she finally understood what she had done."

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Subliminal messages haha, what evers. She admitted to her shit, it's all good lol.

Lol there is always an excuse for everything.

I don't think the 1 time use of the word was meant as anything other than a refernce to a child being defient. The word alcohol could have been used and there would have been no difference in its intent.
If it had been cast in the context as the cause of her behavior, like playing COD led to the Columbine killings, then one could take real issue with its use in the article.

Dumb little kids.

People trying to ban the tree!