Parenting Fail

30 January 2009 | 10:48 AM

As a parent myself, I have a lot of respect for other people who have kids and parent them well – I certainly am far from perfect at it, and I take guidance and inspiration from those folks whom I think do a kick-ass job of raising their kids. And while I’ve certainly done things as a dad that I’ve later wished I hadn’t, I believe I can safely say that none of my regrettable parenting moments seem to be things which will scar my children for life. Unfortunately, that’s more than I can say for one Crystal Walden (side note, of course her name is Crystal, right?), who – not wanting to let motherhood prevent her from having a good time – got stinking drunk, dragged her 10 year-old son to a truck stop and made him watch while she got freaky and/or deaky with a trucker inside his rig. Oy vey:

My favorite bit about this admittedly shocking and repulsive story is the statement she made to the judge in open court explaining her actions:

“It’s only because I was drinking tequila,” Walden said during her Monday arraignment.

It sounds like Jose Cuervo was decidedly not a friend of hers that night I guess. In any case, this sort of puts some of the things my own parents did to me when I was a kid in perspective. I’d like to publicly thank my folks for their restraint.

Posted by Andy in Fail