Now that’s a parent who cares about her child.
I would do the same thing if it were my Son or Daughter. (But I would have to beat my Husband to the phone first)
I despise overindulgent, protective “my baby would never do something like that” parents.
The punishment that I'd dish out would be a whole lot worse than the wink and a slap on the wrist the courts would come up with.
'Tis a moot point, anyway, because all of our kids were raised well enough so that they'd never do such a thing to start with! :-)
Mine wouldn’t have left the house in the first place. If she insisted, and could actually make it there, she would’ve had a black eye and a limp when throwing the first brick.
Or she would have received what a lot of kids got when growing up (in the South), the obligatory beat you all the way home from the playground with switches in front of your friends (and that was for being fifteen or thirty minutes late home from school). Guess what?, those kids were never late again and were quick to tell their buddies no way the next time.
You’d be under jail for that now. But that was the age of teachers and paddles. The age of the grapevine being faster than your walking and several beratings from neighbors (who knew you were better than the bad kids, were ashamed of you... after the interrogation), then had to wait till your father got home. LOL, wait a minute, maybe youth wasn’t so wonderful after all.