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> I feel everything is about her, not him, and that's why he's so upset. Indeed. It seems that the son has an exemption from the uniform policy ("They told me
by HarryHirsch 14y ago
> I feel everything is about her, not him, and that's why he's so upset.
Indeed. It seems that the son has an exemption from the uniform policy ("They told me I could wear these" he insisted), the mother has this desire to make the child conform, and is insufficiently introspective to examine her own motivations ("my 13-year old son ... missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color pants"). Hey, he missed the bus because you made him wear your favorite set of trousers.
- evan_ 14y agoYou think the kid who thought threatening his mom with a knife was acceptable wouldn't tell a petty lie?
- HarryHirsch 14y agoIt's possible. But look at this: "Several weeks into his new junior high school, Michael began exhibiting increasingly odd and threatening behaviors at school. We decided to transfer him to the district’s most restrictive behavioral program" Something changed with the new school, something that set her son off with regularity. The answer is the district's most restrictive behavioral program. The child may be an asshole and a violent psychopath, but the mother doesn't ask if there's perhaps anything wrong at the new school. There may well be, and the fact that she does not mention that possibility raises a red flag for me.