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Mother Takes Kids to Petit Trial
It’s just another day in the life of a few kids who are being home schooled by their mother, except for one tiny thing. They are going to being sitting listening to a horrible crime committed against the Petit family which involved a gruesome rape and murder of three women and the story of the father who was also beaten brutally but managed to escape.
So where is the logic of a mother to take her children of ages six and seven to sit in and listen to all of this play itself out in court? Her logic is that it’s a civics lesson meant to teach her children about justice and trying to make her children think about the victims and what they must have been feeling? She states how they didn’t just show up for the trial, they have been talking about it every day for the last 6 months. Ummm…hello? Is anyone home? She also justifies her decision by saying that is that any worse than parent’s who let their children play video games that help to engage children in violent behavior? I guess that’s debatable, but it doesn’t make her decision as a parent somehow anymore “right”. And aren’t those games rated according to age for parents to make more informed decisions. Ummm, court case trials aren’t rated, why? Probably because they shouldn’t need to be.
I get that sometimes exposing our children to the “real world” that does exist can be helpful in teaching them certain awareness and lessons that can protect them or make their lives better. The world isn’t always a safe or loving place and I think it’s important for our children to know this. But I don’t think that at their young ages, it is necessary for them to sit on a murder trial that is of this caliber. I mean it’s up there with the O.J. trial, but actually I would consider it worse. If anything, instead of spending days at a courthouse exposing your kids to such a horrific nightmare that one man probably has been reliving every day for many years, why not spend time teaching your kids what they can do to help the victims of violence or towards the prevention of it?
I get that knowing how the judicial system works is knowledge that all children should acquire at an appropriate age, but it seems to me that this mother just wanted to be there to witness the case and didn’t have a babysitter…seriously.
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