Leeds hoax girls-what would you do?

[tinkerbell23]

As you may have seen evians thread

http://www.theanswerb...uestion1157184-6.html

Which is now a hoax 999 call..

What would you do as a parent of one of these 10y olds by way of discipline? What should the police do then?

We started to discuss...thought a thread would be interesting.

Not sure what id do...im not a parent....my parents and probs whole family would have came down on me like a tonne of bricks!!

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Again, I am not advocating hitting them.

[ummmm]

I've said it before...good kids with good parents do bad things as well. I know I did...

[sherrardk]

It's all relative though - I was a little cow. Never got a manhunt going for my ailing mother though. But still wouldn't hit the crap out of my kids for doing something wrong.

[Ann]

I don't think their parents will care tuppence, they are often the same. If I was doling out punishment I would definitely confiscate their mobile phones, ipods and computers - this action would be so devastating to them! Then I would arm them with mop and bucket and make them go and do the dirtiest community jobs, cleaning and disinfecting town rubbish bins, washing off graffiti from buildings, scraping chewing gum off the paving slabs on the pavements and cleaning public loos. After this I would make them sit for a morning listening to emergency calls coming into a switchboard to hear how distressed real people are amd make them watch casualties being brought into hospitals. Real shock treatment! but of course they will be molly coddled by the do-gooders trying to blame it on aspects of their lifestyle etc.

[tinkerbell23]

Good answer ann!

Ooh what have i missed...sorry!! Lol....xx

[DaisyNonna]

Remove phone, internet access, landline, TV, Radio. Stop any pocket money, give lifts only to vital venues, eg. school, doctor, dentist.

[LoftyLottie]

In other words just make their summer holidays really miserable!! Much more effective than a good hiding.

[Ann]

Yes and make them stand outside without any shelter every time it rains so they get absolutely soaked and miserable - children hate this!

[craft1948]

These kids are from Bridlington so nothing scares them (Sqad used to be a doctor there so they're 'ard)

[LoftyLottie]

I know this was a really naughty thing to do, but let's face it they are ten years old. They haven't killed anybody, stolen anything or committed a violent crime, they have been totally silly and gone to far!! Some people of this thread have inferred that they should be treated like criminals, or are criminals in the making!!

[tinkerbell23]

I knew itd be an interesting one ;0) xx

[B00]

hear hear Lottie and ummmm.

What these girls did was horrible and a massive strain on emergency services resources, but at 10, i genuinely believe they'd have been unaware of the consequences of their actions.

[Kiki-frog]

Definitely confiscate phones and deny internet access until they can show that they are responsible enough to have them. OK, they're only kids, but they need to realise that what they did was wrong.