[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Katherine Whitbread [@practicethewild](/creator/twitter/practicethewild) on x 1552 followers Created: 2025-07-18 16:49:15 UTC You are on it. It's difficult to tell what's pulling the friend off course but your observations seem laser sharp and clear. It is tempting to imagine that you can help the friend and/or their family. It is tempting to invest in that direction. What seems to be missing is your permission from yourself to use your best judgement callously and entirely in your son's best interest. You can trust that your son may be missing information that you have. He has no way to have perspective on an obsession with blood spatter and dismembering stuffed animals. He hasn't got experience with manipulation. Very few people have experience with true human evil (and I am not saying that is what you are dealing with but it's not impossible). For reference, The People of the Lie by Scott Peck is illustrative on when we are dealing with people who are very tricky to deal with. I would say that, if you are not ready to banish the friend, you might indulge his obvious desire to win your good opinion of him and to ally with you but only until you become strengthened in your decision. The friend could be trying to win your support that your son is a spoiled brat in order to hurt your son with that report. "Your mom says you are a spoiled brat." Or the friend could be trying to reconcile that his parents are telling him that your son is a spoiled brat. Or both. His parents could be telling him that your son is a spoiled brat because your son's friend is asking for minimal decent human treatment at home that he's not getting. He says to his parents that things work differently at your house and they condemn your son to manage their own son's expectations. This is a very hot potato. I think your impulse to structure and involve yourself in their interactions is great. Normally, I would find it weird for my kid's friend to be trying to make a relationship with me. I would normally key in the way you are to that factor and try to work out what's really going on. The friend is obviously enraged and suffering terribly. The friend is comparing your home life with his own. You may have already done everything you can by exposing the friend to a household and home life that is peaceful and sustaining so he can at least imagine that possibility. I sense you want to make sure you guys don't go down with that ship. You seem to me to be tackling exactly the right questions with the proper amount of gravitas. XX engagements  **Related Topics** [investment](/topic/investment) [help the](/topic/help-the) [$6753t](/topic/$6753t) [$wtbl](/topic/$wtbl) [Post Link](https://x.com/practicethewild/status/1946250928442793999)
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Katherine Whitbread @practicethewild on x 1552 followers
Created: 2025-07-18 16:49:15 UTC
You are on it. It's difficult to tell what's pulling the friend off course but your observations seem laser sharp and clear. It is tempting to imagine that you can help the friend and/or their family. It is tempting to invest in that direction. What seems to be missing is your permission from yourself to use your best judgement callously and entirely in your son's best interest. You can trust that your son may be missing information that you have. He has no way to have perspective on an obsession with blood spatter and dismembering stuffed animals. He hasn't got experience with manipulation. Very few people have experience with true human evil (and I am not saying that is what you are dealing with but it's not impossible). For reference, The People of the Lie by Scott Peck is illustrative on when we are dealing with people who are very tricky to deal with.
I would say that, if you are not ready to banish the friend, you might indulge his obvious desire to win your good opinion of him and to ally with you but only until you become strengthened in your decision. The friend could be trying to win your support that your son is a spoiled brat in order to hurt your son with that report. "Your mom says you are a spoiled brat." Or the friend could be trying to reconcile that his parents are telling him that your son is a spoiled brat. Or both. His parents could be telling him that your son is a spoiled brat because your son's friend is asking for minimal decent human treatment at home that he's not getting. He says to his parents that things work differently at your house and they condemn your son to manage their own son's expectations.
This is a very hot potato. I think your impulse to structure and involve yourself in their interactions is great. Normally, I would find it weird for my kid's friend to be trying to make a relationship with me. I would normally key in the way you are to that factor and try to work out what's really going on.
The friend is obviously enraged and suffering terribly. The friend is comparing your home life with his own. You may have already done everything you can by exposing the friend to a household and home life that is peaceful and sustaining so he can at least imagine that possibility.
I sense you want to make sure you guys don't go down with that ship. You seem to me to be tackling exactly the right questions with the proper amount of gravitas.
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