This is something I wonder about: Why would teenagers want to spend all their time around their parents? Is the homeschooling for the kid’s benefit, or is it a manifestation of the parents’ need for control?
A teenager from Frisco, Texas is accused of murdering both of his parents late Monday night.
According to DallasNews.com, the 16-year-old was “very sheltered,” and was being homeschooled by parents who wished to shield him from the world.
The teenaged gunman was one of two school-age children left at home out of five. The deceased — Ryan Callans, 48, and Maria Elena Callans, 49 — had three other adult children.
Frisco Police Officer Chad LaPrelle told the Dallas Morning News that officers responded to a 911 call around 2:00 a.m. Monday reporting gunshots. Both Callens parents were dead of gunshot wounds when police reached the residence.
Isn’t this about living with control freaks? “If he stepped out of line he got punished.” Nobody will endure being oppressed forever. Eventually everybody will strike out. Look at St. Louis. Instead of choosing to express his outrage in a peaceful manner this kid killed his tormentors instead. And that’s a real shame. For all of us.
Who knows. One assumes more information will be forthcoming, IF our ADD media bothers to carry it. Maybe the kid had some behavioral issue, schizophrenic, god knows. What we do know is that children are not blank slates that parents can program by trying to sequester them from the world. Parents need to recognize that kids learn from everything around, including their own ruminations. If your kids turn out great, you can’t take the credit. And if they don’t, you shouldn’t take all the blame. And most of a kid’s personality and world outlook are established way earlier than the age at which they tried to hide him away.