Remember when you were a kid and when you wanted a toy or candy you might have done something stupid like hold your breath or lie on the floor kicking and screaming? If you are 6-years-old then you can get away with those childish acts but what is the equivalent act for the 20-year-olds who never grow up? Two grown privileged children (now 23-year-old Steven A. Miner and 20-year-old Kathryn Miner) raised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills, Ill home were trying to sue their mother (Kimberly A. Garrity), seeking more than $50,000 for “emotional distress” due to "bad mothering" with their idiotic dad (also named Steven A. Miner) acting as their lawyer.
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Examples of bad parenting that they presented to the court included sending an inappropriate birthday card without a cheque in it, making her then 7-year-old son put his seat belt on in the car, not taking her daughter to a car show, calling her daughter at midnight asking her to come home from celebrating homecoming and lastly, "haggling" over the amount to spend on party dresses. Cause you know that you had a rough childhood when you were capped on how much of daddy's credit card you could spend on a few dresses (note: sarcasm).
This story is probably the single most absurd thing that I have read since that lady tried to sue Google for providing a map that led to her walking on a highway and getting hit by a car. It is such a ridiculous case that you would imagine it to be on Judge Judy or The People's Court. I do not even know if those MTV Laguna Beach teenagers could match these children in terms of being both spoiled and ungrateful. The article does mention that the father apparently tried to dissuade the children from bringing the case but obviously he failed at that just like he failed as a father or husband. If you want to slow population growth then just forward this story around to all wannabe parents. Although sanity prevailed as an Illinois appeals court dismissed the children's case finding that none of the mother's behaviour was “extreme or outrageous”, you kind of wish that people like this could be held financially responsible for wasting the court's and mother's time.
