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Friday, March 09, 2007

Question #416

From: The Kid's Book of Questions by Gregory Stock, Ph.D.

Q #141 .... If you were mad at your brother and found out about something bad he had done, would you tell your parents so that he'd get into trouble?

Why or why not?

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seeing as how my parents have gone to their reward, I guess I will pass on tattling to them about something one of my brothers did wrong.

When I was young, my three brothers and I had ever changing treaties and allegiances and cooperative agreements. So, depending on which brother it was, how bad the transgression was, and whether I was mad at him or not determined whether my parentsd were told.

Anonymous said...

IS THIS ONE OF THE BIGGER BROTHERS?
DOESN'T MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE. SEEMS
LIKE THE WHOLE TOWN WAS JUST WAITING TO SQUEAL ON ONE OF THE BRADY BOYS TO THEIR FATHER. BESIDES
GIVE ANY STORY A DAY AND PAP WOULD
HEAR ABOUT IT.

Anonymous said...

Bronco....even though I am a woman (most of the time...LOL), I think we might be related!

And of course there's always that small disclaimer that no matter what our feelings were, if one of my brothers (and I had 3) did something that endangered their health or someone else's, the matter would be brought up to the "rents".

Anonymous said...

ALL HANDS JOIN TOGETHER AT THE
'WATER-HOLE' ABOUT 5ISH. CIN AND BRONC WILL BE HOLDING FORTH ON HOW
"DEMON DRINK" DID THEM IN.NO DOUBT
DIDN'T GIVE THEM A CHANCE

cincin21 said...

I don't recall this ever being an issue in my family ... we were all Saints, I tell you ... SAINTS!!

Now ... my cousins were a whole 'nother kettle of fish! They were always doing bad stuff and my brothers would get blamed for it ..... and I would try to tell my grandma, but she never believed me.

My cousins were lucky they didn't end up dead ... or killing someone.

cincin21 said...

Gumdrop is SO RIGHT!!

That dang DEMON drink!! Plus the manager's name is Damien ... and he kept tempting us, too ....

Oh Woe ... if I really were a Catholic, I would for sure have to go to confession ....

The parallels are frightening!!

Anonymous said...

LOL You guys crack me up! CinCin in Confession? The scene from League Of Our Own keeps coming to mind when Madonna was in the conessional and the priest kept dropping the Bible! LOL Just kidding!

Does Damien have 666 on his scalp? Bring the knives! LOL

Caroline said...

I would never ever ever tell on my sibs. My mom wanted so bad for me to be a spy for her, but I always taught my sibs while we were growing up "not to be a narc". It worked and I did lots of stuff they never told on me for.
BUT, while I was preg. w/ Mahna my brother kept stealing from my parents and smoking speed and pot in their house. They gave him so many chances, but one day my mom came home and my brother's "friend" was carrying a stack of my mom's DVDs out of the house (including Dumbo and Snow White which I had JUST bought her for Christmas...so it was personal to me,too) and the kitchen reeked of pot. He denied everything, told my mom that guy had let Franky borrow those movies and Franky was just giving them back. My mom got the DVDs from the guy because she was FURIOUS and not afraid of whoever he was (momentarily) and called me to come over and tell me what the "smell" in her kitchen was. I decided to tell on him then. I said it's pot mom. She called the cops, he got arrested because she allowed the cops to search his bedroom. I must say I felt sort of guilty over this... But then again my mom really didn't deserve the constant screwing over and laying awake at night she was going through.

Anonymous said...

1. As a kid - YES! as I expect the very same of him.

2. As an Adult - NO!

Anonymous said...

noooooo i would never do that that is like a tatle tell and when they find oout forthemselves he wiil get in more trouble