Letters from the Inside - Love, Discipline, Consequences

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One of the breakdowns in society is parents not holding their children responsible for their actions, a failure to discipline.

A teacher we spoke with recently expressed her dismay on the fact the she was being bombastically attacked, by a parent, for holding her child accountable to show up to class on time and turn in homework timely. A lack of parental control has consequences.  

A prison inmate on a death row was asked his last wish before he could be electrocuted in the electric chair, he asked for a pen and paper then wrote this letter to his mom. This letter from our series “Letters from the Inside.”

Dear Mom,

If the law was fair today you would be here seated next to me waiting to be electrocuted in the electric chair, but since the law is blind I have been convicted for the crimes we committed together or at least you turned a blind eye to, knowing, thus condoning through silence. 

Mom I remember how it all started!  Do you remember when I was 3 years old when I stole my brothers candy bars? Mom you  didn't correct me and actually snickered. 

Mom, I remember very well when I was five the day I stole our neighbors toy tonka trucks and hid it at home you said nothing! 

Mom, remember when I was 12 when I hid my cousin's ball in the garage when he had come to play with us at home and you said that you didn’t  see it yet you saw it.

Do you remember the day I was expelled from school at 15 years? You yelled at the teacher and said she was bad. You complained to the principal, you even threatened the school board and threatened to sue them. Dad wanted to punish me, but you refused, and that very day you had a bitter argument with dad about this because you where defending me!  Mom, you said to dad that I was still young, you said the teachers where wrong to say that I was not attending class. You defended me, you said I was right yet you knew I was wrong.

Mom, remember very well, you saw me steal our neighbors’ bicycle when I was 17 but you didn't report I sold it but you were silent yet again, mom.

You loved me so much, yes you loved me, but you you didn't correct me, instead you spoiled me.

That is how it started, and it graduated slowly, until today when I will be electrocuted for bank robbery and murder.

I was very young, I’m accountable but I just needed your guidance mom, by the time you read this, I will be gone

Yours truly, your loving son. Thanks for the love mom, but live alone does not build a boy into a man. - Danny

Love your children, support your teachers and don't forget fair discipline is parenting and accountability in parenting is love. 

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