{"id":37693,"date":"2013-09-23T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T14:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37693"},"modified":"2013-09-23T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:12:58","slug":"are-we-witnessing-the-death-of-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37693","title":{"rendered":"Are we witnessing the death of parenting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story will be pretty far off the beaten path for what I usually discuss, but I have to admit I am fascinated (in a horrible way) by it, and apparently many others are as well.\u00a0 I asked my wife to DVR the View today, which was possibly more embarrassing for me than someone being a Giants fan today.<\/p>\n<p>To catch you up to speed on what is happening, watch this video from <del datetime=\"2013-09-23T15:12:15+00:00\">ABC News 10<\/del> video from ABCnews:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UdRr6e6VQ44\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So Holloway started a website entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/helpmesave300.com\/\">Help me Save 300<\/a>&#8221; and printed screen grabs of pictures and Tweets from the party.\u00a0 It&#8217;s resulted in a few good things, and one thing that will likely anger a lot of folks.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the Eagle statue has been returned.\u00a0 That&#8217;s to be expected, since they had a picture of the girl who stole it.\u00a0 Additionally, Mr. Holloway had a ton of people come over and help him fix up some of the damage, including some of the kids responsible.\u00a0 As he posted on his website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4 Students of The 300 showed up and took a stand for their greatness;\u00a0 I want to thank the parents for joining them.\u00a0 This was significant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Four kids out of 300 seems rather meager to me, but I guess it is a start.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to go back if it was me only because my parents would have paddled my butt so hard I probably would have needed a chair to move around.\u00a0 Look, I did some dumb stuff as a kid, but I rather draw the line at causing $40,000 in a house that I broke into.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently most parents are not like my own (via my former hometown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshireeagle.com\/news\/ci_24149867\/teens-parents-may-sue-former-nfl-star-holloway?source=rss_viewed\">newspaper the Berkshire Eagle<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, some of the teens&#8217; parents have threatened to sue for damages over his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmesave300.com\">helpmesave300.com<\/a>, which they claim defames their children, according to Holloway.<\/p>\n<p>The former New England Patriots player told The Eagle he thought these parents&#8217; anger is misdirected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t there. All I did was reveal it to you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If your child pooped in their diaper, change the diaper, don&#8217;t yell at me. It&#8217;s simplistic but it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You wouldn&#8217;t believe the stuff I&#8217;ve been getting,&#8221; Holloway added.<\/p>\n<p>Some parents, he said, claim their teenagers are suffering from &#8220;anxiety and depression&#8221; as a result of the considerable media attention given to the case. He said they&#8217;ve told Holloway &#8220;if my child commits suicide,&#8221; the blame will fall on his shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>But Holloway&#8217;s lawyers and other &#8220;top attorneys&#8221; from around the country have assessed the circumstance and told him the parents&#8217; chances aren&#8217;t good, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So some kids break into a house, do drugs and destroy the place, and the parents want to punish the guy who publicized it?\u00a0 Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Hollway seems like a pretty good dude.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1)\u00a0 Today we honored and support our real HEROES,\u00a0 our military and veterans that served in Vietnam War,\u00a0 Gulf War,\u00a0 Desert Storm,\u00a0 Desert Shied and The Afghanistan.\u00a0 It was an amazing day; that all enjoyed and treasured.<br \/>\n(2) Community Volunteers helped to restore the damage;\u00a0 it was a powerful time healing. You should have been here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I could have been there to help him, but I am more stunned at the litigiousness of parents.\u00a0 If Johnny and Jane misbehave, how is it the responsibility of the victim?\u00a0 Does this make any sense to anyone?<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m actually excited to get home and watch my DVR of The View, which I will immediately delete after watching in case someone looks at my TV someday and catches me taping the View.\u00a0 As I said, \u00a0I&#8217;d sooner be a Giants Offensive Lineman that get caught recording the View.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story will be pretty far off the beaten path for what I usually discuss, but &hellip; <a title=\"Are we witnessing the death of parenting?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37693\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are we witnessing the death of parenting?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}