‘She immediately went into angry hysterics and called her Dad’: 13-year-old daughter refuses to tell her mom why she got detention, demands to stay with her dad because he says she doesn’t have to

Kids should be a little afraid of their parents. I’m not saying that it’s a net positive for children to be terrified that their parents are going to scream and holler at them for minor transgressions, but they shouldn’t feel like they’re the ones running the show. Parents who let their kids take the lead …
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‘I should suspend you’: Teacher Mistakes Another Teacher for a Student, Snatches Phone Out of Her Hand and Sends Her to Detention

If you were blessed with young-looking genes, you encounter some pretty funny things. You get asked for ID in your thirties. You get told by a distant aunt at a family dinner to go sit at the kid’s table. You get mistaken by teachers for being a student… that is, if you work in education. …
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People Recount Funny & Traumatic Times They Were Wrongly Accused As Kids

There’s plenty of injustice in the world. Every day, people are wrongly convicted for crimes they didn’t commit. But while adults at least have due process to protect them to a certain extent, children aren’t always extended the same respect. In elementary school, it’s one kid’s word against another, and adults can arbitrarily pick who …
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