I'll bust your ass, because I love you
Often as parents, we are faced with moments that force us to realize that our children, well, they fuck up too. Tuesday night, we had one of those moments. A mother of one of my 13 year old sons friends, who we'll call Billy, came to our home to explain a series of events involving our sons. Most of it was petty arguing, name calling and insulting each others mommas (and they came up with some pretty good ones too!) but things had gone too far. Let me explain, these boys were friends. Billy has been a guest in our home and my son has been a guest in his. They have spent hours and hours together, even at their birthday celebrations and now ... now they were being just being little as*holes, and here's where it gets rocky. Because, because it wasn't just OUR boys against each other, it was more boys. And they were gaining up on each other, and my boy - my boy was on the wrong damn side. As she described my sons actions, I could feel my...