I am getting a crash course in juvenile law. Unfortunately it is because my boyfriends 14 year old son got in some trouble. A lot of people would say 'oh no! Not my son!', thinking they could do no wrong. We have decided to believe him about what happened which puts us at knowing he did something he shouldn't have but he is facing a lot more because he chose to be with the wrong people at the wrong time in the wrong place.  Yes, he will be punished by both the law and us. Yes, we will make sure this becomes a learning experience so something like this can be avoided in the future. No, we are not letting him act like nothing happened. Its a fine line you have to draw between wanting to make everything good for your kids and doing whats good for your kids. Heck, he isn't even my kid! However, I know that path that my life could have taken, I know the path I chose to take, and I know the path I wanted to take. Saying this, my life isn't as good as I would have liked it to be but fortunately it is not as bad as it could have been.

It just saddens me to think that its a lesson he has to learn, but I'm glad its being learned early enough to possibly effect his future in a good way.

Ok.. so as I am browsing through some blogs I come across this little tidbit of insanity.  What can be said, in my opinion, for the following blog that I have copied into this. I will not state who posted it originally simply because I would not want them to feel bad for lacking common sense when they so obviously think they have some.  I have always said and firmly believe that if common sense were so very common that they would sell it at Wal-Mart since they sell everything else. What I lack to see here is how anyone with common sense could possibly justify beating a child, calling it discipline, and obviously not realizing that if they had ANY 'common sense' at all they would raise their child/ren to beat their own child/ren because that is what they would know. I fully understand it may be been written in jest but seriously, it was written.

Burning your hand on something is not teaching yourself common sense but rather a learned consequence for your action. Which, in hindsight, I suppose could be considered common sense, because after you do it once you should KNOW not to do it again. However, I lean more towards thinking common sense is something that you just know rather then have been taught by whatever means. Yes, some people may seem to have more common sense then others BUT you also have to consider if common sense was something that you could learn by trial and error then why, oh why, do so many people so the same idiotic things OVER and OVER!?

Now, some of you reading this may think that by some of the things I have said that I am lacking in common sense and there are times when I would wholeheartedly agree with you but I do feel that I have more common sense then some and less then others. I am intelligent enough to realize that.

Anywho... its just amazing some of the things you can find on a blogsite. LOL

Quote: "Let's say hypothetically that something insanely stupid occurs. Someone will probably ask the person responsible for the stupidity this question: "Where is your common sense!?"

The answer is obvious. They don't have any.

So, what is common sense and why doesn't anyone have any? This post will probably not successfully answer either of these burning questions, but let me give it a shot:

Common Sense (noun), definition: Shit that everyone should know. Example: "If you jump off a building and there are no mattresses to catch you, you will die. That's just common sense!"

So how do people not have common sense when it's 'common'? Well, simple. You have to understand why people have common sense to begin with. When you're a baby, you know absolutely zero. Then you begin to recognize patterns in the world around you, such as 'if you do something stupid, you will get hurt'. You see a hot burner and go "Ooh, it's glowing! I want to touch it!" then you slam your hand down on it. All the flesh is burned off your palm and you learn never to do that again.

Common sense comes from getting your hand burned by many, many hot burners. I spent half my childhood getting my ass kicked by various family members/other kids, so I have a ton of common sense. But a lot of kids were sheltered so much that they didn't learn the essentials of life at the impressionable young age, so without a proper foundation of thought, they now stumble awkwardly through life, doing bizarre things such as buying lottery tickets and working at the DMV.

So, if you love your kids, be sure to beat them when they misbehave. Don't beat them excessively, because then they'll develop too much common sense and it will be uncommonly common sense. Don't 'count to 3', negotiate with your kids, threaten them, bribe them excessively, or say "screw it" and let anarchy reign. "But my parents spanked me and I hate my parents. I want my kids to love me." you might say. Obviously, they didn't spank you enough, because you somehow don't realize that properly disciplining your children is more important than making them love you.

Or don't listen to me. When your kids are 35 and still living with you because they don't have the discipline to get a job, you'll have the peace of mind knowing you never spanked them.

Well, anyhow, if you don't have any common sense, don't worry, you can still get some of it. If people are constantly mocking your lack of lucid thought, then all you have to do is beat yourself over the head with a brick until you can think clearly. Trust me, it'll work. The pain will help you. That's where the saying "I'm gonna beat some sense into him!" comes from. I would advise you not to beat sense into others, though, because odds are, the person in question will start beating you back and will kick your ass.

Alright, now stop being stupid!"