Man on the Edge: Tough Love

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Back in the day, if you didn’t learn your lesson when your parents told you, then you learned it the hard way, with a little taste of the consequences.  But one family in Missouri took that a little too far, and now they’re in serious trouble for the way they tried to teach their kid about stranger danger.

Trouble was, at 6 years old, he just didn’t get it, and kept being friendly with everybody.  So his mom, grandma and aunt hatched a plan to have a family friend pretend to kidnap him on the way home from school.  The aunt had a coworker go by, flash a gun, and pick the kid up.  He tied up the boy’s hands and feet, blindfolded him, and took him back to the boy’s house, where he put him in the basement and family members told the boy he’d be sold into sex slavery.

Once they dropped the act, they lectured him on stranger danger again.  And the next day, the kid told his teacher and everybody got arrested.

As horrible as that sounds, at its core, it was a hard-core way of showing the kid the consequences of his actions.  And where have we seen stuff like that before?  The Scared Straight program that sends kids to jail where convicts get to terrorize them in hopes of putting them on the right track.

But what about in your own life?  What was the toughest way your parents every taught you a lesson?  Rance Adams hit the streets to find out…