BS: Family 'court' justice teaches teen?

Subject: BS: Family 'court' justice teaches teen?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 02:52 PM

Kinda like the real court system?

Whaddya think?

Subject: RE: BS: Family 'court' justice teaches teen?
From: mauvepink
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 03:04 PM

Would like a child babysitting your child that broke such rules with the possibility of coming home to an open and wrecked house?

Not sure it would be seen as quite the sensible thing to do in the UK (and there are all sorts of laws that kick in around childminding and babysitting) though I do respect the sentiment behind it

mp

Subject: RE: BS: Family 'court' justice teaches teen?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 09:42 AM

Hmmm - dilemna for sure. Good idea but I wouldn't hire her either...

Now, free secretarial work, maybe!

Subject: RE: BS: Family 'court' justice teaches teen?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 10:41 AM

From the report, it appeared she was a sensible, well-meaning girl, who admitted she had done wrong to break her father's curfew, deserved punishment, and was willing to co-operate with her father in this one he had devised. She doesn't sound to me at all like anyone who would wreck your home or harm your children thru resentment.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Family 'court' justice teaches teen?
From: mauvepink
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 02:54 PM

Oh I was not suggesting she would do it out of resentment... or indeed that she may not be a good child. Rather that one does just not KNOW she would not do it again. You could have difficulty explaining it to your insurers

However, prudence is not a bad thing either, on both sides. Lead us not into temptations ;-)

Fair point though Michael

mp

Subject: RE: BS: Family 'court' justice teaches teen?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 04:28 PM

Surely all teen babysitters constitute a bit of a 'hostage to fortune' situation. I don't see why this one, because she was not getting paid as part of what she accepted as a fair family punishment, but nevertheless well-disposed and conscientious as far as anyone could show to the contrary, should offer more of a risk to home or children than any other? The fact that she was known once to have behaved a bit irresponsibly surely makes her not much different from any other teenager ~~ which of them hasn't?

That was all the point I meant to make really.

~Michael~