October 21, 200817 yr A 13-year-old girl who has had four sexual partners, smokes dope, drinks beer and has been excluded from school 40 times is considered "sweet" by her mother and given cigarettes as rewards for good behaviour. By Aislinn Simpson Last Updated: 11:23AM BST 21 Oct 2008 Tracy Holt, 43, says there are a "lot worse things" her daughter Sam could be doing than smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and believes that because she herself hasn't yet suffered from cancer, "she'll probably be alright anyway". She knows her daughter hangs out with friends in the street, drinking cans of lager and smoking pot, but says she is simply glad Sam is not "a proper drunk" and has not graduated to harder drugs. "I don't see the point in punishing her. If I ground her, I'm just punishing myself because I have to put up with her in the house," she said. "Instead, I reward her good behaviour by giving her cigarettes. If she's bad, she goes without. "She's a little comedian. I let her get away with a lot of cheek. It's sweet." Mrs Holt, a jobless single mother with two other grown-up children who smokes 20 cigarettes a day herself, said giving them out as a reward "works". She said: "There are a lot worse things she could be doing. We've all got to die sometime. I haven't got cancer from smoking so she'll probably be all right anyway." Sam agrees that she will do more around the family home, in Gosport, Hampshire, when bribed. "If Mum tells me to tidy my room, I ignore her but if she offers me a fag, I do it," she said. She admits to having had four sexual partners in less than a year, but told Closer magazine: "I only sleep with boyfriends. I worry about getting pregnant because I don't want kids until I'm married so I always use condoms." Sam lost her virginity when she was 12, and told her mother shortly afterwards. Miss Holt said she was shocked at first but hid her feelings well. "I thought it was a joke, so I laughed," she said. "I was disappointed. No mother wants to know her 12-year-old is having sex but I'm glad she told me. "I didn't show I was angry and just kept it to myself." She went on: "It wasn't a one-night stand. She had been dating the guy for a couple of weeks. I took her to the doctor's the next day to get her on the Pill. I've told her to use condoms." Sam's track record at school leaves a lot to be desired, and she has been excluded for bad behaviour more than 40 times. "Sam got suspended for the first time after she climbed on to the school roof," she said. "I shouted at her and then explained she shouldn't climb on roofs because she could fall off. I didn't know what else to do." She believes her daughter's behaviour is down to the teachers at her school who were "too soft" with her. "Now she is at a special school where there are fewer kids in each class," she said. "Hopefully these teachers will be stricter and she will finally get the discipline that's needed." * The full interview with Sam and Tracy Holt appears in Closer magazine. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3232521/Girl-13-who-smokes-drinks-and-has-sex-rewarded-by-mother-with-cigarettes.html
October 21, 200817 yr The one thing I would change about my job (I'm a teacher), is the parents. Half of them just see us as glorified babysitters. They just want us to keep the kids busy for a few hours a day and don't care about the childs academic progress
October 21, 200817 yr The one thing I would change about my job (I'm a teacher), is the parents. Half of them just see us as glorified babysitters. They just want us to keep the kids busy for a few hours a day and don't care about the childs academic progress None of them should have children. They are a disgrace to parenting (and society).:angry: And the mother in that story deserves to be jailed for "corrupting a minor".:angry:
October 21, 200817 yr This is absolutely disgracefull!....I am lucky I am from a good background and have good parents! :D
October 21, 200817 yr This is absolutely disgracefull!....I am lucky I am from a good background and have good parents! :D It's good to hear you appreciate that!:D
October 21, 200817 yr are there any islands available we can send thise kind of people to? Well it used to be Australia many moons ago!!:P
October 21, 200817 yr are there any islands available we can send thise kind of people to? Has Jamaica got any free space? :P
October 21, 200817 yr Author "It wasn't a one-night stand. She had been dating the guy for a couple of weeks. oh that's alright then :rolleyes: "Hopefully these teachers will be stricter and she will finally get the discipline that's needed." ermmmmmmm you're her mother, you give her the discipline that's needed
October 21, 200817 yr is the mother who should be strict with her daughter, she should be ahead of what her daughter will do, that way she would had avoided many problems... and seems she feels like proud for her child been excluded 40 times :\ that daughter should be taken off her mom, that women is not doing any good to the child. i wonder how she hadn't had any problems also with the other childs the article mentions... how she could had been a good mother with the older ones and that bad with the youngest or is that because the older are boy so she absolutely let them do whatever they wanted to and with the youngest one she "tries" to care a bit... :confused:
October 21, 200817 yr is the mother who should be strict with her daughter, she should be ahead of what her daughter will do, that way she would had avoided many problems... and seems she feels like proud for her child been excluded 40 times :\ that daughter should be taken off her mom, that women is not doing any good to the child. i wonder how she hadn't had any problems also with the other childs the article mentions... how she could had been a good mother with the older ones and that bad with the youngest or is that because the older are boy so she absolutely let them do whatever they wanted to and with the youngest one she "tries" to care a bit... :confused: It's called "Chav syndrome". Unfortunately it's incurable!!:rolleyes:
October 21, 200817 yr It's called "Chav syndrome". Unfortunately it's incurable!!:rolleyes: you refer to the lets let the boys do whatever they want and do pretend to care about our daughter thing?... that is machism. :angry: there's no worst machism than the one that mom teach to their kids. i can't believe those kind of news, really they are yet kids and have done all those things.. :confused: world is mad.
October 17, 200916 yr are there any islands available we can send thise kind of people to? I suggest sending them to the Principality of Sealand :wink3:
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