[Krankor]

I love this story for several reasons. The names of the parents are great. Their picture is hilarious. And Shanpreta vehemently denies being a bad mother on her Facebook Page (Click on Wall) Click

[dfwgator]

I shudder to think the names they gave their kids.

[GeronL]

No aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, nannies or babysitters... but they can afford Vegas??

[GeronL]

Does it say anywhere if this couple is married?

[JRandomFreeper]

Sis and I got left alone for a weekend, with a neighbor for emergency contact, at ages 12 and 11. We managed. I did have to fix some damage to the cabinet hinges, but it all worked out.

We're raising a generation of helpless sissies.

/johnny

[I Drive Too Fast]

Did they stay at Howard Johnson's?

What are the odds?

[Domandred]

I’m torn. At 12 I was camping outdoors, in the woods, overnight. I stayed alone at home several times without thinking about it.

The kids seem responsible enough to go to school when the parents aren’t there, so that tells me that the kids are probably being raised at least marginally decently.

Think I’m gonna have to go with no harm no foul on this one. Though I probably would have had a neighbor check in on them a few times.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Shanpreta, Antowain, Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!!

[Ramius]

Depending on the 12yr old... They might be responsible enough to babysit the 9 yr old for a couple of days. If the kids were 9 and 6 I could see the outrage, but 12 is getting pretty close to babysitter territory. I’m not sure that the outrage is justified here.

[freebilly]

I don’t go to Vegas, but when my kids were younger I never had qualms with leaving ANY of them in charge of younger siblings, for up to 48 hours, when they were 12.

My sister-in-law didn’t like it. One of her kids ended up a drug addict. Another ended up a rapist. My kids? I see my oldest daughter and her 4 kids every week in church. I visit my oldest son at a university where he’s the head baseball coach. My #2 son played college baseball with his brother and is planning to open a restaurant after his wife graduates med school. The #3 son is applying to Annapolis. #4 son (14 years old) is a straight A student and is starting to carve a name for himself as an athlete (wrestling). The youngest, 11 years old, I’d leave in charge of all the rest....

[Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage]

I wish that Barbara Billingsly was still alive to translate that facebook page.

[wardaddy]

I stayed at home alone at 15 for weekends

can anyone say:

pot

windowpane

shrooms..fresh off the cowpatty

quaaludes

naked girls

and of course...booze and loud music..Led Zep IV, Ziggy Stardust, Axis Bold as Love ..for the windowpane, Atom Heart Mother, ZZ Top Rio Grande Mud, early Sabbath, Aqualung, Traffic...speakers in the trees...we did it right

I loved when my folks were gone...I died and went to heaven

I ain’t leaving my kids here...no way..not till they are 30