Mother of Columbine Shooter Speaks

I think it was brave of her to speak out. What if your child had done that? Would you really be able to live with yourself? I personally would feel like such a failure as a parent. She’s trying to apologize when she did nothing wrong. Give her some creedit for trying to help.

Maybe if she could just give us some insight into what her son was going through for the last year of his life, his behavior, attitude, his friends, maybe we as parents can prevent some other tragedies by being able to recognize the same behavior in our own children or friends of our children and be able to stop it before its too late. I live in NH and maybe if we could have stopped the horrible tragedy in Mont Vernon last week that claimed the life of Kim Cates and hurt her wonderful daughter, if anyone can help us with information of how to recognize this behavior so we can put the proper people on notice, I’m here to listen and learn.

After the Columbine tragedy, many people asked where these boys parents were when all this was going down? These boys had an arsenal of weapons and the parents knew nothing about it? I don’t feel sorry for the parents of these two boys. Maybe if they had been more aware of what was going on in their lives, this tragedy may have been prevented. I agree with “barf”. Mrs Klebold should not have said anything in the first place and should shut up now. All she is doing is being selfish by stirring up the past and more hurt trying to make herself feel better.

I don’t think her intention was to hurt those parents and families again.
The people who lost children on that day must be burdened with varied degrees of sadness every day.
We should just pray for all of them.
I hope none of us here has to walk in their shoes.

I think Dylans mom was very brave to say what she did – we need to realize that Dylans mom has suffered so much pain from the death of her child that she needs to have some mercy shown to her. We cannot always determine what our children will do even when we have given them what we feel is our best – who knows!!! Don’t be a stone thrower unless you want some thrown at you!

If the reporter narrating the story about DYLAN Klebold looked at the spelling of his name I doubt he would call him DILLON throughout the whole story. I am sure his mother cringed every time he said it which was often.

I do not find accceptable Mrs. Klebold’s explanation that her son suffered depression. Her son purchased military armaments with intent to engage in mass murder; pre-meditated, cold, calculated. Her son made a series of choices to engage in this pathology. Lots of people suffer from depression and do not engage in this pathology. I find it hard to believe that she did not know what was going on in her son’s room. Her explanation of ‘depression’ is unacceptalbe and a continuation of her naivete.

It’s something that no parent should have to bear or witness,a child that commits crimes against another human being. The hardest thing that a parent will ever do in their lifetime is to bury a child. There are those who will argue that the parents were at fault and that they weren’t good parents. Maybe they were or maybe they weren’t,only they will ever know truth. Alot of parents say they were unaware of anything wrong,what needs to be done is to give love and attention to your children. Many people cannot even say ” I Love You ” to their own children. Perhaps their parents never said it to them and seems unnecessary. Every child needs attention and love, maybe if they know someone loves them unconditionally they will be spared the heartache and pain children inflict on others.These children grow up to be adults full of anger and hate. Love and compassion are taught at home,a child learns from what is said and taught at home. Let it be taught to our children each and everyday.My heart goes out to those killed and their parents and the mothers and fathers of Harris and Klebold. May peace and forgiveness prevail,even to those two lost souls who were so tormented here on earth.

I have alot of respect for her bravery of speaking out. I can’t imagine the grief, guilt and what if’s that have haunted her over the last 10 years. While violence is never an acceptable choice I do find myself a little sympathetic to the the children who do this (believe me my sypathy is MUCH more for the victims) but alot of these kids were allowed to fall through the cracks. Kids teased and bullied them while schools do nothing to intervene and kind of just let them fall through the cracks. My thoughts and prayers are with this mother.

He was a murderer. He wrote letters and made bombs in his house. This woman had no involvement in her son’s life. I bet he barely spoke to her. I’m sure she never opened the door to his room. If she were involved in his life, she would have known there was a problem. Parents need to be involved and parent. She needs to talk about how to be an involved parent. This is where she went wrong.