Kid from broken home refuses to stop smashing walls with sledgehammer

Nearly a quarter of children in the United States grow up in a broken household, a rate only rising through the decades. 

While typically considered cruel to blame kids for the circumstance, there’s an exception to be made in the case of little Timothy Coleman, who is literally breaking his house apart with a sledgehammer.

“His father and I have tried everything, but we haven’t been able to find an amicable solution,” said mother Jessica Coleman. “We’ve attempted to seek common ground and use active listening, but all that’s given us is an awareness that he has zero intention of stopping no matter what.”

The stable couple of 15 years first thought to lock up the family’s sledgehammer — a decision which only served to escalate the situation. 

“After a particularly hasty living room demolition, I bought a safe to keep all of my hammers under lock and key. But when he didn’t get what he wanted at home, he went out and found it elsewhere,” shared the seven-year-old’s trembling father, Greg.

No neighbors have reported any missing tools and the nearest hardware store is an eight mile trek away — a distance too far for the first grader’s tiny legs even if he had enough quarters in his newly-smashed piggy bank for the purchase. 

Nevertheless, the boy’s bedroom, a hallway, and one bathroom have been destroyed in the last week alone. 

“Breaking things is fun!” explained Timothy, his beaming face caked with drywall dust. 

Sneaking out of a window at 2 a.m. after having his door preventatively locked from the outside, the rascal made his way to the backyard sandbox, where he dug up a sledgehammer with his elementary school’s name Sharpied onto the handle — a sure sign he’d stolen his weapon of choice from the janitor’s closet. 

Unable to hear the commotion over CPAP and white noise machines, the heavy sleepers awoke the next day to a kitchen completely torn apart. 

“Well, we were thinking about making this space more open concept anyway,” shrugged the couple, carefully stepping over exposed wires on the way to brew some coffee, the dim morning light shining through a giant hole.

At press time, the loving husband and wife had decided to settle for the current situation with the hopes that their spawn would someday make enough money doing house renovations to repair the damage. 

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