[imelda28]

It snowed last night and the roads were slick. My husband and I worked
Last night. We almost got hit by a car and there were cars in ditches. My husband thought that we shouldn't go to my mother's house to pick up the kids because of the weather. I agreed.I called the schools and told them that our kids wouldn't go to school today because of the weather. The schools were in session an hour late because of the weather.The snow melted off the roads.Our 14 year was walking to our house about 30 minutes before school was out. A policeman stopped him. This policeman was somewhat of a jerk.
My son started crying. He told my son that he wasn't in trouble but my husband I were because we were too lazy to send our children to school.
He called another policeman and the sheriff's department. They called the school to check if anyone called in for the kids. They left.This evenings newspaper said there were several wrecks and lots of people got stuck. I was wondering if we could have more problems because of this. This was the first day of school
My children missed since school started. My son says he don't like policemen anymore. Any advice? Thanks . Sheriff's

[Fr_Chuck]

Can there be more trouble , to be honest god only knows, I have seen children services get involved in the most stupid cases and want to investigate things that made no sense at all.

So while my gut felling says no, this will be the end of it.

[oneguyinohio]

I would encourage you to tell your son that the policeman was doing his job because some parents are bad. Tell your son that the policeman may have chosen his words wrong and didn't explain the entire situation very well like he should have... probably because he might have been nervous or something, and some people don't communicate as well as others... Hopefully if you let your son know that you are not mad at the police, he won't hold a grudge about it.

If you think about it from the cops perspective, a child out of school might have sent up a flag... and if he had picked up a delinquent, he would have been in the right... Unfortuneately he had no way of knowing, and unfortuneately chose the wrong way to talk to your son.

I know that I'd be pretty upset that they frightened my son like that, but your son might take his lead from you. It also might help if you can arrange for a tour of a police station for your son where he can see a nicer side of them... I know he is 14 so I don't mean to have them treat him like a young child, but only to help him see there good side as well.

I usually do not stick up for the police... honestly, I'm not one, and I know a lot of them can have bad attitudes and jump to conclusions, but I am just trying to help your son understand them a little better and not to take the situation personnally...

[imelda28]

Thank you FR CHUCK and oneguyinohio. Imelda