My friend forwarded me an article the other day about 300
kids who had broken into former football player Brian Holloway’s Stephentown home. Inside the home, they had proceeded to drink illegally
while smashing in windows and trashing his whole house. Meanwhile, in
Miami, Brian Holloway watched the play-by-play destruction of his own
home on Twitter. You see, these nitwits had decided that they were going
to Tweet photos of the whole ordeal.

So what does Brian Holloway do? He invites all of these kids
to a picnic, to talk about what had happened, and to clean the mess they
made. One kid showed up. The rest of the parents of the guilty children
have decided that they’re going to try to sue Holloway for making
public the faces and identities of the kids in the photos on a website he created for them–mind you, in
the photos that the kids themselves posted on Twitter.

Actual image from Twitter.  

Because it’s going to ruin their future. And what’s
overwhelming to me is not that these idiot parents don’t give a shit
about raising responsible adults, but that everyone that’s weighing in
on it also seems to side with the parents. Because we all do crazy
things when we’re kids. And because it’s normal, as a parent, to want to
protect your child. And that, as an adult, you shouldn’t have to pay
for making a mistake when you were a teenager. Oh–you know what I was
doing when I was 16? I was working part-time in my uncle’s pizza shop
and studying for the SATs. You know what I wasn’t doing? Trashing
someone’s fucking house and tweeting about it. 

My parents raised me with such respect for them and for
myself that I couldn’t even consider doing something that I knew was wrong. (As you can tell, however, our household had very lax rules on swearing…)
It’s fucking called accountability. It’s called integrity. It’s called
honesty– things these people apparently know nothing about. They’re
raising a generation of brats that will continue hiding behind their
parents’ coattails every time they fuck up. And fuck up they
will–because what can you expect from someone who is taught that
blaming the victim is an appropriate remedy for trashing his home?

I don’t wish myself the misfortune of becoming a parent
anytime soon. But I know that if I were a parent in this situation, the
first order of business would be to apologize, and to get underway with
fixing the damage that was done. It would not be to sue Brian Holloway
for trying to teach these kids a lesson that their parents repeatedly
refuse and fail to teach them: that in this world all you have is your
reputation and your word; that in this world, acting with integrity and
accountability for your actions will show others that you are a person
worthy of their trust and their friendship; that in this world, your
actions will follow you to your deathbed and beyond, so make them
actions worthy of pride.

 – Helena B. 
 
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