Thread: Feel My Pain

I hate to sound like my grandfather when I was 12 but kids these days dint have the respect for things that were taught when I was young. My family had guns in the house, my father kept his hunting knives out, his lighter, and his razor. We were taught not to touch unless dad was there and only if we asked and he said yes. Him allowing us to look at and handle these things took away the allure of doing so when he was not around, as did the thought of the consequences, but his showing us always included a safety lesson. When I was 10 firing a shotgun into a pumpkin at 15 feet gave me a respect for guns no lecture could ever impart.

I am very sorry your razor was damaged and sorry your space invaded; but it sounds like you need to protect your things as the people around you dint have the same respect for them you do. A shame but reality. Even the solution, "his father is buying me a strop to pay for the damage".. What about him doing something for the money to make up for his lack of respect for your razor? Him washing your car 25 times or something might be a better lesson than a cut finger.

That seriously sucks. What is a shame is that a 15 year old has not yet learned to respect other people's stuff. From an 8 year old, yeah I might expect that (although I'd keep a razor out of sight of an 8 year old), but a 15 year old should know better.

Originally Posted by takedeadaim

...What about him doing something for the money to make up for his lack of respect for your razor? Him washing your car 25 times or something might be a better lesson than a cut finger.

Yes, I would say the child has not been taught proper respect. I would have him charged by the police myself. He has theoretically broken and entered your domain the moment he stepped through your door.

Originally Posted by jeffegg2

Best to keep objects like these and firearms from the eye of kids. Prevention is better than repair.

I would have thought that prevention was already in place. The razor was not in a public area of the house. It was in the privacy of an individuals room.


If that was my boy, he would be washing all that family's vehicles, right after he finished mowing the lawn, which he would start just as soon as he finished cooking breakfast+cleanup for the whole family and doing a proper job of all of it. Then he would be doing the process in reverse the moment he got home...Lawns, vehicles and dinner + cleanup. The first day would be the worst because he would have had a leather belt across his arse several times. I would keep him at it till I figured the total hours of work equated to enough to pay me back for the money spent on repairs to the original razor + a new razor of the same value because we all know that, once something has been damaged and repaired it is never quite the same again. i would set his hourly rate at something like $1 just to make sure the lesson of respect and valuing anothers property was drummed into him.
I'm also sure that there would be other menial household tasks that could be given to him as well.


Mick