HILLSBOROUGH, NC—Operating over after they noticed a person screaming at their kids, a gaggle of native dad and mom reportedly stepped in Thursday to confront an overprotective guardian who was overreacting to their youngsters pelting his son with rocks. “Basic helicopter parenting, going completely ballistic over each little rock that collides along with his little one’s cranium,” mentioned Alison Ryland, 43, who argued {that a} 7-year-old being clobbered with stones for having two dads was an vital ceremony of passage and that coddling the boy now wasn’t going to do him any favors, contemplating a day would inevitably come when he encountered one other barrage of rocks and there wasn’t anybody round to intervene. “You possibly can’t anticipate to cushion each blow to the pinnacle he’s going to expertise in life, so it’s higher to offer him the instruments he must protect his face along with his forearms and take it till his assailants tire themselves out. If his daddy fights all his battles for him, he’ll by no means get used to rocks coming at him from each course, opening up a number of wounds, and inflicting extreme blood loss.” Ryland went on to say that the overreacting dad was freaking out far more than the unconscious child anyway.
