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Parenting 101: Don't Help Your Kids Beat Up Other Kids
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Jen Carlson
Published Dec 14, 2010
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A 29-year-old Brooklyn dad was arrested last week outside of PS 20 on Adelphi Street. Turns out he was picking his son up when he recognized an enemy lurking nearby (his son's enemy, that is, not his own). Sure, any other parent would just shrug it off and let the kids settle this on The Facebook—but this guy got out of the car, held the 10-year-old child down, and told his son to take some shots! To finish him off, pops delivered the final blow. When his bruised victim ran off, the Brooklyn Paper reports he "chased after him—right to the principal’s office, where he threatened both the child and a school administrator before cops took him into custody on assault charges." Hey buddy, you're doing it wrong.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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