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Presents are given out of love, I agree, but to me giving a misbehaving kid a $300 gaming console isn't a gift of love, its bribery.
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Who knows if it was bribery as much as fear. When you have a child like this, you get desperate, it is not as clear black and white from the inside lookout out as it is from the outside looking in.
Yes, the child might be a little bugger, perhaps the home environment is not what it should be, usually children are a product of their environment, but there are many factors that produce children with severe behavioural problems. The story makes the news cause of the age of the child and the gift in question.
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When I was growing up, how we behaved and the grades that we got obviously effected the gifts that we got.
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Imagine then the poor child, who is brilliant at school, never steps out of line, and does not receive a gift because the family is too poor to buy one. How bad they must feel. Life is cruel too many times. Let's keep the spirit of XMas in our hearts and not judge others.