On 4/6/08 1:08 PM,"Ruby Vee" <rubyvee3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Michael is on the sofa, playing with a violent video game, and when
> Carly interrupts him, telling him "You of all people should know the
> consequences of playing with guns," his response is "You KNOW it was an
> accident!" His biggest concern seemed to be that his mother was still
> mad at him after he explained that he didn't shoot Kate intentionally.
> That would have been an excellent time to explain to him that it was an
> accident he shouldn't have had, since he shouldn't have had a gun in
> the first place. And that he DID intentionally leave her lying
> bleeding in the dirt instead of calling for help.
Yes, you'd have thought this would be a great time for Carly to mention
these things to him.
>
> Yet even Kate seems as if she's going to let it pass.
Kate isn't his parent! She's not anything except the innocent victim who
nearly got killed because the mini-mobster was running around with a gun
trying to be like his dad. And it was just a couple weeks ago that
people
in here were screaming in protest at the suggestion that Jax, who IS the
kid's stepfather, should dare to involve himself in the parenting process
since he has no right because his mother did such a lousy job with him and
Jerry. I can just see what people would say about how hypocritical Kate
is
for involving herself in correcting Michael for leaving her bleeding to
death on the sidewalk, being as how she got community service for dinging
a
couple of cars and leaving those scenes!
Kate probably reads this newsgroup and wisely decided to keep quiet since
she was lucky enough to survive! LOL
>
> Michael could learn a bit about owning up to your accidents and taking
> responsibility for your mistakes from his paternal grandmother. (No,
> not Adella, who seems to have entirely missed the boat when it comes to
> protecting your children from absent or abusive fathers and step
> fathers.) Monica took responsibility for her actions, apologized to
> the person she hurt and took her consequences like a woman.
>
> As far as Michael apologizing to Kate -- why hasn't it happened
> already? Anyone of the three parents in his life should have hauled
> him to her home and stood there while he apologized.
>
> Ruby
>
Yup, you'd think...except you can't fault Jax. Again, he's only the
step-parent who has been reminded of that multiple times by both Carly and
Sonny that he needs to keep his mouth shut about disciplining the kids
unless he is agreeing with them.
Of course, we're about to have another major rift between these two since
Carly's already on the warpath since Sonny dared to take his son without
clearing it with Carly, Does she not remember her pulling the reverse
stunt
on him, by just dumping the kids off at his house without even telling him
they were coming, or finding out if he was even going to be home, while
she
flitted off out of town somewhere? And, now that Michael's been shot,
we're
going to hear again about how it is Sonny's fault, which is ironic because
he appears (on the surface, at least) to be trying very hard to become
just
a coffee im****ter.
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