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Mom Shoplifts Parenting Book With Kids in Tow

Posted by JeanneSager

So, you want to know how to be a "great mom?" You could drop some dough on a book called 101 Ways to be a Great Mom. Or you could take your kids out shoplifting and get yourself the five finger discount!

Decisions, decisions.

An Ohio mom has been accused of taking her two kids out to the local Dollar General with their daddy and shoving a parenting book in her pocket before waltzing out the door.

Police say Callie Rough also stashed wash cloths, hand towels and a small rug while her partner, James Rogers, allegedly stole a package of garbage bags. Confronted by store employees, Rough allegedly refused to let them search her oversized purse, instead running to the back of the store and emptying it herself. On the way out, employees said she threw more purloined items at them before the whole family made a run for it. 

Police found both Rough and Rogers had active warrants against them, and placed them under arrest. Dad was charged with receiving stolen property, Mom with theft.

And 101 Ways to be a Great Mom? That was confiscated. But I see a sequel in the works - Rule #102, don't take your kids with you on your shoplifting trips.

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Comments

 

Trace said:

and dollar general, yah, things aren't just "generally" a dollar. They're "generally" wayyy more than a dollar at Dollar General. That's mom of the year status, I think. Because really, I think I might just go to the library, and try to borrow a book of 101 ways to be a great mom, considering that she was going to write the sequel, starting with rule number 102. Crazy mom that she is! Those trash bags that the husband stole, they should put them over their heads. Those two clowns should just be downright humiliated. *shakes head* 101 ways to be a great mom. Perhaps she should have read the inside jacket of the book, with the first rule saying "Do not lie, steal, cheat others."

January 7, 2009 11:05 AM
 

sympathetic said:

And yet, to be fair, this smacks of such "general" desperation that I can hardly judge the mom.

January 14, 2009 8:36 PM
 

beth bernitt said:

sad reflection, too bad if that is what we are taught we will need to break the next taboo

February 3, 2009 8:07 AM

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Jeanne Sager is a writer who lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a dog and too many cats. She refuses to believe motherhood comes with pumpkin appliqued sweaters, and she';s not ready to apologize for having only one child. She writes about raising her kid in her own hometown and the mom stuff she's not embarrassed to own at her blog, Inside Out (http://jeannesager.blogspot.com), she's contributing editor of Grand Magazine, and she's a regular essayist here on Babble

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