Can parents, well, parent anymore?

2006-01-13T13:29:00.000-06:00

"Eager to get his driver's license, a 7-year-old boy put on his seat belt and remembered to use his turn signal as he took his parents' pickup truck out for a spin, leading police on a slow pursuit around town." - FoxNews

I want to go and ask this kid if he even knows what eluding means, I want to know what his parents were doing when he took off with the car, and how'd he get the keys?

I don't know about you guys, but my folks kept an eye on me when I was seven. If I wanted to leave the house, I had to ask, and if I didn't and they heard the door open (always did too. :() they'd be at the door or outside in less than 30 seconds asking me what I was doing.

Don't you care where your kids are? Do you just let your seven year old walk outside at any time they wish? Those parents are lucky, they're lucky that the kid wasn't kidnapped, hit by a car, or seriously injured by simply playing on the swingset. Good God people, watch your kids!

I can almost garauntee you that a second grader doesn't know what eluding means, but I know his parents do. And I'll tell you this, his parents are eluding responsibility. It is the kids fault, to an extent, but his folks should have been watching him to insure he didn't take their car. Kids do stupid things, that's why parents are there. At least that's what I always thought.

Think

Can parents, well, parent anymore?