The lenience you enjoyed presumably resulted in problems or harm for others.
replyI got a few breaks as well as a kid too. I think teenage boys end up being a community investment and people are cleaning up broken windows, stolen cars, graffiti, and worse as we hope the kids grow up.
Very true. I’d just say, it’s the leniency that’s the investment more so than the cleaning up part. Because the damage being done is almost a given. How elders respond to it shapes whether it becomes an asset or a liability.
replyAnd it probably saved a lot of problems or harm for others, further down the line. OP might have become a career criminal without that lenience.
reply> gave me kind slaps on the wrist compared to what they could/should have
replyI think that slaps on the writs that lead to adjusted member of society are waaay better then felony crimes charges that lead to life of in-out of prison with much harder way to integrate.
People who are treated like you was have overall much better results then people who have book thrown on them as youg.
I genuinely dislike troublesome teenagers, but I also think that your story is a success story of the "dont destroy them" approach.