Lamborghini Owner Offers Free Ride To 5 Year Old That Drove Off In Family Car

That't right...reinforce very bad behavior. (From chapter 1 of the 'How to Make a Monster' book).

Amen. It's fine for a kid to have a dream and to work to make the dream come true, but this kid is headed for a life of crime. Most 5 year olds observe the social boundary of "you don't drive cars at 5". My boys have motorized vehicles they can play with on the property which appropriately addresses their desire for motorized vehicles, but they had better not let me catch them without helmets etc.

Give the kid a break. What he did was immature and dangerous but he is only five years old. Humans don't reach the ability to have sound judgement until in their early twenties. The kid showed determination and initiative. Blame and fault his parents, not the kid.

Not everyone shares your parenting wisdom though

And pugproud gives us a textbook example of shifting the responsibility, codependence, enmeshment, and moralizing. You can readily see that the parents are uneducated idiots, and yes they have complicity, but the boy must face consequences. This kind of blame shifting produces adults are are fucked in the head because they've never had to face the logical consequences of their actions. My sons know they will face the logical consequences of their actions if it is safe to do so.

The douchy and narcissistic Lambo owner is acting like Wayne Carini giving some kid who has terminal childhood cancer a car ride as part of a wonderful "Make A Wish" thing (which is great by the way - my heart goes out to those sick kids).

This kid is seemingly very healthy, just poorly parented, and the Lambo guy seemed to have staged the whole thing (who called the TV stations, ahem?) to glorify himself.

The whole thing is really unfortunate. Lucky the kid didn't run over somebody.

#Enablers

I bet he told that kid no ice cream in the Lambo.

They probably snorted cocaine together.

Teach the kid the value of hardwork and money before you THINK you are helping him chase his dream. Not to mention breaking the law, disobeying his parents and the potential financial risks he put them in, the risk to other drivers on the road, gas money...so much more to it than just "chasing a dream". Get real, Neves.