The nouveau chic phrase for the past ten years or so is "Send a Message".
In common parlance, it seems to mean to communicate your thoughts or emotions through actions.
Today, the mother of the 15 year old girl from Juneau, Alaska who took a trip on an airplane without her parents' permission said in an interview on Foxnews, "I wanted to send her a message that stealing is wrong."
The girl had stolen money for the airplane ticket from her mother, then took a flight to Seattle.
The girl is now in custody at a juvenile center under 5 charges of theft, filed by her mother.
Now I can see a parent at wits end turning her child over to the police if the child had been constantly in trouble since she was old enough to walk, but apparently this wasn't the case. It was the first time she had run away from home, as kids are wont to do from time to time.
If the mother wanted to "send a message" to her daughter that stealing is wrong, why not just tell it to her face: "I thought I taught you better, Makenna, you know that stealing is wrong. I'm very hurt and disappointed that you took that money from me." rather than committing her to a juvenile center, and giving her a criminal record for the rest of her life?
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I'm a former trooper, and I agree. I hope Mom drops the charges and gives her the personal message. All too often I saw the opposite, where parents supported their "little darlings" who committed hit and run, DUI, and other crimes. I recall to this day the woman who beat on me out of frustration when I delivered the news that her only son - age just 16 - was dead on the road. The son had illegally modified his vehicle in several ways, was not wearing his seatbelt, was racing a high-center-of-gravity truck and was under suspension because we had already charged and convicted him 3 times and warned him to get his truck legal. His mother had complained that we were picking on him in court. Actually, we did pick on violators, and he was one.
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