Judge Steven Teske on Mother’s Day and Mom’s Tough Love
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Parental involvement in the life of a child buffers kids from delinquency. But involvement is something more than supervision --- it’s about being functional --- telling your kids what they need to hear no matter the pain to them and to you. My mother was one of those pain-giving parents. One of those maternal tormenting moments occurred in 1968. I was eight and squatting behind a car with two friends. They were brothers and older than me. We had something in common --- we didn’t get along with Randy. Randy and his friends were on the other side of the street. They were throwing rocks at us. The brothers and I took refuge behind a car hoping they wouldn’t throw anything.