SK> -> A mother who said her "night owl" son does not like to go to bed
SK> -> early was placed on 90 days probation because the boy was 
SK> repeatedly
SK> -> late for kindergarten.  Caroline Edens, an underwriter for an
SK> -> insurance company, was charged with truancy.  The judge ordered 
SK> her
SK> -> to put her five-year-old to bed at a "proper time," wake him and
SK> -> take him to class.  She also must take a parenting class. 
    This case is an example of an improper role for a criminal court judge if 
ever there was one, and also of a sentence that can achieve nothing.
    Even if defendant Mommy puts Junior to bed at a "proper time", she cannot 
make him go to sleep.  In reality, she cannot even keep him from getting out 
of bed repeatedly without losing so much sleep herself that she will then 
lose _her_ job and be even less capable of being a parent.
--- Simplex BBS (v1.07.00Beta [DOS])
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