Parenting can be a tricky thing.
Who can safely say they’ve never, in the heat of the moment, brandished over-the-top threats to try to get unruly offspring to comply? And who ever follows through?
Well the scene earlier this week inside a family home in Limoges, France, was looking familiar, as reported by local radio station France Bleu Limousin: Facing their 15-year-old son’s refusal to clear the table after dinner, Papa and Maman launched the not-so-credible We’ll-call-the-cops ultimatum. But this time, they followed through and dialed #17, the emergency police number in France, to report a “big family dispute.”
When officers arrived, after making sure that everyone was fine, they had a lecture for the parents, that the situation “was more a matter of lack of authority than a police concern.”
All clear then — that is, except for the table.
