Mom jailed for how she rewarded her kid for doing homework

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<p>Just when you think you’ve heard it all…</p>

<p>"AP --GETTYSBURG, Pa. - A woman who admitted smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for completing his homework was sentenced to three months in prison.</p>

<p>Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, was also ordered Tuesday to spend nine months on house arrest and a year on probation.</p>

<p>Livelsberger pleaded guilty on Sept. 11 to three misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors as well as drug-possession and paraphernalia-possession charges. She admitted that she had been smoking marijuana with her son since he was 11 and often gave him the drug as a reward."</p>

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<p>They dont call it Ghettosburg for no reason.</p>

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<p>You’ve got to be kidding! Now I don’t generally like to insult anyone, but I’m afraid that woman is just plain stupid. I can’t think of any other word for it.</p>

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<p>sweet reward, sure beats the allowance my parents gave me.</p>

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<p>When I told my husband about the story, he commented that it sounded like something that a crack addict would do.</p>

<p>Then, I read the rest of the story and noticed that crack-oriented drug paraphernalia was found in the home. Nuff said.</p>

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<p>Well, also note the age difference between parent and child. Not to say that teen parents can’t get it together and raise a child properly (with TONS of support and help), but sadly, most don’t.</p>

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<p>Good point, Berurah. The parent also has at least one child who’s older.</p>

<p>One wonders what kind of parenting the parent herself received.</p>

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Well, if it’s anything like the parenting most of our local pregnant teens have received, it leaves a great deal to be desired, as you might expect. That’s why the cycle tends to repeat itself.</p>

<p>Incidentally, this is exactly why some of us parents objected to our yearbook’s inclusion of teen pregnancy shown in a glowing light (especially since NO academics were covered at all and the teen pregnancy section was, in fact, under the section entitled, “Striving for Excellence, Academics”). WHY any school district would feel it’s proper to perpetuate this very maladaptive behavior is beyond me.</p>

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<p>I hope that woman reads the article I posted on the thread where the mom was her childs defense attorney
That was about the worst thing she could have done if she wanted him to do better in school
It would have been better to have gotten him an exotic dancer as I have read other moms doing :eek: That at least wouldn’t have given him brain damage</p>

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<p>There is a hilarious Mordechai Richler novel, I think from the early '70’s, in which a teacher at a touchie feelie, very crunchy counter cultural school decides to reward student performance with um, I’m not sure I remember exactly, but think about Monica and Bill. When the teacher’s activities are revealed, the parents rise up in protest because they are philosophically opposed to the use of rewards which they think will foster unhealthy competition. A-hem. Perhaps the mom with the weed should delve into more Canadian fiction…</p>