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| Posted by: TLCDad Jan 8 2009, 05:19 AM |
| http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010601195.html Words do not even describe the actions or lack there of for the parents of this little boy! |
| Posted by: my2monkeyboys Jan 8 2009, 05:35 AM |
| Wow - I'm glad he and the other folks on the road were all ok. That is sad.... it makes you wonder why his mother was so unfit as to not be allowed to be alone with them. |
| Posted by: lisar Jan 8 2009, 06:34 AM |
And his Mom was asleep the whole the time.  Why didnt she get up and see that boy off to school and make him some breakfast. Thats just wrong on so many levels. I am so glad no one got hurt though |
| Posted by: jcc64 Jan 8 2009, 07:48 AM |
| That story just blew my mind. Unbelievable on so many levels. |
| Posted by: BAC'sMom Jan 8 2009, 08:44 AM |
She sounds like a winner  |
| Posted by: mckayleesmom Jan 8 2009, 10:40 AM |
| Who seriously expects their 6 year old to get on the bus by themselves. The bus picks McKaylee up at the end of our driveway and I still sit on the porch or at least watch her from the window. She isn't even allowed to play by herself in the front yard..let alone stand out there and wait for a bus. |
| Posted by: cameragirl21 Jan 8 2009, 10:48 AM |
| Breakfast seems to have been his primary motivation...this poor kid probably doesn't get fed if he doesn't get to school. |
| Posted by: MommyToAshley Jan 8 2009, 10:51 AM |
OMG... this boy is ASHLEY's age!!! I don't leave her in the car alone (in the back seat in a booster seat), I couldn't imagine her trying to drive a car!  I am sure there is more to the story with the Mom since the Dad was under court order not to leave the kids alone with the Mom. It's not the poor kids fault. |
| Posted by: PrairieMom Jan 8 2009, 11:00 AM |
| The thing I keep thing of is how amazing is that child to be motivated to go to school and to obtain the resources to do so, living in a home with such little supervision? My kid wouldn't even get himself out of his jammies alone, let alone get himself anywhere on time. This child obviously has a drive that will get him somewhere in life. ( no pun intended)  What a blessing that no one was hurt. Could you imagine driving along the highway and being passed by a 6 year old standing up and driving? |
| Posted by: My2Beauties Jan 12 2009, 10:11 AM |
| Wait while I pick my jaw up off the floor!! This story is absolutely unbelievable. |
| Posted by: redchief Jan 12 2009, 02:37 PM |
| Unbelievable. |
| Posted by: Kirstenmumof3 Jan 12 2009, 04:22 PM |
| OMG!!!!! That is just...I don't know, I can't find the words!!! When Emily and Spencer were out of the area for the school bus, I worried about them walking to school and walking home from school. Had it not been for the reassurance of our CAS worker I would have been walking them and picking them up and they were in grades 2 & 4. I always got up, made them breakfast and walked them out to the school bus, even when I was pregnant with Claudia, even after she was born. That is just unbelievable! |
| Posted by: boogiemomster Jan 23 2009, 09:39 AM |
| wow that is unreal |