When you're 6 years old and your mother is yanking you around by
  your ballsack I _don't_ think logic will be the first, second,
  third, or 100th thing on your mind at that moment... or hers. ==
  I give her kudos for the crazy glue quick-fix because that *is*
  a valid _temporary_ stitching and while her unwillingness to
  turn herself in and try to hide the evidence *is* a very
  rational, reasonable, logical decision, for it affords her an
  opportunity to escape punitive justice, none of this takes away
  from the fact that she's a loony. == Oh I agree. The power
  differential between kids and adults is quite disturbing in so
  many ways. Bothered me ever since I was a kid myself and still
  does. But I believe in human respect first so I listen no matter
  where they are in their own personal timeline, or at least try.