gnome said:
yeh remember doing that back when i was around that age....
So do I. All my teenage deeds come back to haunt me 25 years later.
As I said before, he's a gifted kid. He's extremely good at things like "Debate", and spent a big chunk of last night arguing with his mother, using his powers of debate to try and blame his behavior on HER!!!! The stress she puts on him (
do your homework, behave, watch your language, do your share of the chores) drove him to salcious sexual desires.
He was blaming Me for his alleged misconception that this was okay. His argument that hanging out in his room
(which he shares with his 11 year old stepbrother) with two 14 year old girls in their underwear, with the door open, was okay because he was following the "open door when girls are over" rule, and that
we never specifically told him not to play strip poker with two girls. He said he was completely unaware of the
No Playing Strip Poker With Two Girls rule.
And of course, the girls gave the argument that their underwear covered more than their swim suits, and that at home they're naked half the time, much to the annoyance of their family members, especially their preteen brothers. Fortunately my wife was a girl much like these two and easily befriended them with edited tales of her own teenage sexual misconduct and subsequent reprocussions from parents..... as we waited for their distraught mothers to arrive.
All I can say is that I want to claw my eyes out from seeing two underage girls parading around in their undergarments as I walked by my stepson's room. Are they cute? Yes. Can I go to jail for what I saw? Probably not.
You spend much of your kids childhood being careful that your nudity does not traumatize them. Then they hit puberty, develope, and their nudity (
or partial nudity) traumatizes you. In this case, it was someone else's kid, and I think I need to be institutionalized.
Truthfully, its not like I can throw any stones for the behavior. I was worse, though not as successful as he's becoming. But DANG, when I got caught I would never have tried to blame my parents, look for excuses like this. When I did stuff like this, and got caught (many times), I admited up front that it was because I was a horny teenager and was willing to take the risk.
You know, all its gonna take is one annoyed parent and one stuffy judge for my wife and I to suddenly find ourselves on a Sex Offender list with the "Involving Children" asterisk.
I am in hell. But hey, at least my three kids brought home good gradecards.