This blog is about the unfortunate disappearance of Brittanee Drexel in Myrtle Beach last week. But I have a much different take on the situation than most bloggers. My position is NOT sensitive OR compassionate. I do not weep over the (most likely) death of Brittanee Drexel. Instead I get angry. While the perpetrator or perpetrators are the ones who killed her and should be prosecuted fully, the best advice I can offer her mother at this time is to get an agent and write a book entitled, "How My Parenting Skills Caused My Daughter's Death", by Dawn Drexel--the U.S.' second worst mother, only surpassed by Octomom!
How could I say these things? Because somebody NEEDS to say them! Somebody needs to tell all these parents out there who think they can be their teenager's FRIEND what can happen. Somebody needs to tell all the teenagers out there who think its OK to act like they're 30 and walk around half naked in the middle of the night in a strange city what can happen.
If you are starting to think it was a mistake reading this, take a moment to reminisce with me.... Back to the good ole' days when 16-year-old girls didn't decide to just "get away" to a beach resort three states away from home. Not only would we not have even considered it an option, if--for some unexplicable reason--we lost our ever livin' minds and DID "get away", OUR mothers would have driven all night to the resort, bloodied us in front of our homies and would have need carpal tunnel surgery when she got us home from slapping us so much on the trip. WE would not have ever ACQUIRED the notion that if we got our minds "set on something" that it was ACCEPTABLE to just do it. OUR mothers would NOT, like Dawn Drexel, TEXT with us for the duration of our "breather" about "soccer equipment she was going to buy" us. If your mother was like mine, you can agree any future purchases would have been permanently shelved pending trial.
I would continue on and describe how much folly it is for teenagers today to act twice their age, for girls to think it would be completely acceptable to walk 20 blocks in short shorts to visit a hotel room full of teenage boys. But it isn't their fault. It is the parents! MOM bought those clothes, either directly or indirectly. MOM raised a daughter who never learned the lesson of vulnerability because she rarely used the word "no". MOM needs to take this ultimate lesson she is learning right now and crusade to save others.
I may not be likeable, but someone had to say it! If we remain quiet, if we whisper--others will die.
There were a few time that I talked back to my teach at school and it was reported to my father - he about snatched me bald headed.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely nothing wrong in some good ole fashioned wood-shed discipline!