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I can picture him at a job interview a few years from now. Since everyone is Googled now, I can see the employer saying "So you are that douchebag Mac and Cheese kid from youtube".
This is a direct result of bad parents. His parents wanted to be his friend and never enforced a single rule or boundry on him. The behavior he showed isn't his fault his parents reinforced it and rewarded it his whole life. He like any child realized when he acted this way the adults would give in, however being outside the protective bubble of his parents he is finding himself ill equipped with the skills necessary to function in a society with rules and boundaries.
I agree with it being a parenting problem but also an education problem.
If you read his educational bio, this kid went to Killington Mountain School in Vermont for High School. It states he worked during summers at a ski camp in Oregon.
This kid hasn't been living at home since he was 13. His adolescence was spent mostly with teachers and hardly at all with his parents. I'm sure his parents didn't do a swell job either but when you castrate the authority of teachers in schools AND rely on them to discipline your kids.... well... here is the result!
Castrating the authority of the teachers hits the nail on the head. The parents get involved on behalf of the child. It's always the schools fault. Schools are scared of the parents getting involved when it should be the kids who are scared when a parent gets called. Sadly we are only going to see more and more of this behavior in everyday life as these "special" trophy for participating children reach maturity.
This is a direct result of bad parents. His parents wanted to be his friend and never enforced a single rule or boundry on him. The behavior he showed isn't his fault his parents reinforced it and rewarded it his whole life. He like any child realized when he acted this way the adults would give in, however being outside the protective bubble of his parents he is finding himself ill equipped with the skills necessary to function in a society with rules and boundaries.
Its amazing that you can extract all of this from a 9 minute video clip while he was drunk.
I'm not defending his actions, but your broad conclusions suggest that you are either the greatest psychologist the world has ever known or that you're just making stuff up.
The behavior he displays is not unlike behavior I have witnessed before. Usually by a three year old who is learning to push his boundaries. Its not hard to recognize it. The kid is simply used to getting his way. Not too difficult to see.
If the manager would've just given the kid the mac and cheese this could've all been avoided. I know the kid was drunk but the manager escalated the situation by refusing to serve him. Give the kid the mac and cheese and let him go on his way. Probably would've been arrested for something else anyway, but the manager needed to be a "tough guy" too. Fault goes to both.
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