i have to watch my snakes starve as punishment

[JodanOrNoDan]

Near as we can tell, the OP is a minor who has apparently given us his first and last name as well as his city and state. Anybody and everybody in addition to members can access this thread, and I'm guessing his parents aren't aware of this thread, either. In the interests of his security and due to the possibility that his parents might see it and all heck break loose, I'd like to suggest that a mod delete, modify, or close this thread. I'm new here and not sure of the rules, but I don't have a good feeling about keeping this open. This is just my opinion.

Thanks.

Mods...........
Yup, I second that. Wish I would have thought about that as well.

[Willowy]

I do not think everything parents do is OK. There was one parent who made their kid kill his pet hamster with a hammer because he broke the rules (fortunately they were caught and punished). Some parents suck in general, some generally good parents do some terrible things. I don't think they get a pass on bad behavior because they popped a person out of their loins.

BUT, yes, if they're just making you go to the store yourself instead of actually forcing you to starve your pets, get walking! But a parent who forbids the feeding of a pet to punish their kid deserves whatever they get.

[Kokorobosoi]

I just spoke to the store that he bought the animals from and the situation will be resolved.

[Gio]

Near as we can tell, the OP is a minor who has apparently given us his first and last name as well as his city and state. Anybody and everybody in addition to members can access this thread, and I'm guessing his parents aren't aware of this thread, either. In the interests of his security and due to the possibility that his parents might see it and all heck break loose, I'd like to suggest that a mod delete, modify, or close this thread. I'm new here and not sure of the rules, but I don't have a good feeling about keeping this open. This is just my opinion.

Thanks.

Member Profile says 18 years old.

The whole thread is a train wreck.

[JodanOrNoDan]

I just spoke to the store that he bought the animals from and the situation will be resolved.

Way to go!

[RiA MaU]

This is terrible. I have a 4-year-old daughter and I'm getting a degree to teach pre-school and I can honestly say that the lot of you are unfit to raise the next generation of children. There was nothing that implied the OP was incapable of taking care of the pets. I personally interpreted this as a simple asking of advice and that his/her parents were actually forbidding them from feeding their animals, which is a crime. Anyone ever heard of benefit of the doubt? No? Well then look it up. There's no proof as to whether this post is a troll or not and therefore, you cannot claim it is. Innocent until proven guilty, right? As for contacting the store, what exactly did you mean "resolved"?

[Eric Alan]

This is terrible. I have a 4-year-old daughter and I'm getting a degree to teach pre-school and I can honestly say that the lot of you are unfit to raise the next generation of children. There was nothing that implied the OP was incapable of taking care of the pets. I personally interpreted this as a simple asking of advice and that his/her parents were actually forbidding them from feeding their animals, which is a crime. Anyone ever heard of benefit of the doubt? No? Well then look it up. There's no proof as to whether this post is a troll or not and therefore, you cannot claim it is. Innocent until proven guilty, right? As for contacting the store, what exactly did you mean "resolved"?

Unfit to raise children because they believe a teenager was in the wrong to knowingly purchase and hide an animal from their parents? Madness!

[Rob]

This is terrible. I have a 4-year-old daughter and I'm getting a degree to teach pre-school and I can honestly say that the lot of you are unfit to raise the next generation of children. There was nothing that implied the OP was incapable of taking care of the pets. I personally interpreted this as a simple asking of advice and that his/her parents were actually forbidding them from feeding their animals, which is a crime. Anyone ever heard of benefit of the doubt? No? Well then look it up. There's no proof as to whether this post is a troll or not and therefore, you cannot claim it is. Innocent until proven guilty, right? As for contacting the store, what exactly did you mean "resolved"?

Yeah the people that think the kid should have to be held accountable for lying and going behind their parents backs bringing an animal into their home without permission are the ones not fit to raise kids, ok. No it's parents that let their children walk all over them, want to be more of a pal than parent that is the problem. Part of the whole "you can do whatever you want" "everyone is a winner and gets a trophy" generation.
Raising a bunch of monsters that can't hear the word no without needing a "safe place"
It's pretty simple until you live on your own and pay your own bills you live by your parents rules. You want to feed the snakes? Go get the rodents yourself. If the op can go buy a snake, they should have no issue going and getting the food for them.

[JodanOrNoDan]

This is terrible. I have a 4-year-old daughter and I'm getting a degree to teach pre-school and I can honestly say that the lot of you are unfit to raise the next generation of children. There was nothing that implied the OP was incapable of taking care of the pets. I personally interpreted this as a simple asking of advice and that his/her parents were actually forbidding them from feeding their animals, which is a crime. Anyone ever heard of benefit of the doubt? No? Well then look it up. There's no proof as to whether this post is a troll or not and therefore, you cannot claim it is. Innocent until proven guilty, right? As for contacting the store, what exactly did you mean "resolved"?

I've raised four of my own. The conduct of the OP would be totally unacceptable in my household and the animals would have been gone.

[Kokorobosoi]

It is resolved. As I refuse to put more of this child's information on the internet, I can say the animals are not in danger of starving.

I found it horrifying that a child would either not know enough about internet safety to know better, or did know better, and still chose to make these accusations with no mind to the consequences. With either of those two options, If it were my child they would

A) no longer have the care of anything dependent on them.
B) loose all access to the internet that I could control. Use an encyclopedia for homework, like I did.

On so many levels this was unsafe.