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People are stupid
I just can’t help pointing these people out.
Children’s Pageants
Jun 25th
I’m watching the latest episode of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List where she and her Mom are guest judges at a little kids pageant.
We normal people know how sick and twisted it is to dress and make-up your 2-year-old and parade them like they are dolls. What are you teaching your child? Fake everything and maybe someone will think you’re special enough to win a trophy. And if you don’t win, then you’re JUST NOT SPECIAL ENOUGH. Beauty isn’t something a kid can practice and work on like sports or grades. You either have it or you have to fake it.
I’ve seen bits and pieces of these pageants on other shows. I tend NOT to watch because it’s all so… makesmesquickyinside. But about halfway through this episode they show the 4-6 year old little girls dressed up in their finery and egads… the look of unhappy desperation in their eyes as they stood there to be JUDGED by strangers! Just that 10 seconds is all you need to see if you’re EVER planning on putting your kid through this crap. Look at those kids eyes. It’s all there.
You might convince yourself that your child wants to do it, but in reality all your kid wants is your approval. Children perform for approval, and acting like they want what you want is part of that performance. If you really want to know if your kid is happy, watch them when they don’t know you’re watching. Better yet, have someone record your interaction with your child and watch it later. You’ll see truth when you’re not looking.
Another parenting FAIL
Jun 13th
Last evening was so beautiful I decided to take Kira to the park to kill time before bath and bedtime – one can only take so much Nick Jr. There was a huge party going on at the north end of the park including at 40-50 little dark haired children who weren’t speaking English.
I like this little park. There’s two separate climbing/slide structures, a giant fake rock in the middle to climb on, musical drum-like things and a splash pad. What I didn’t like was the ton of trash this party dumped all over. The playground was littered with empty soda cans and little chip bags, party gift bags and other assorted garbage. None of the various trash cans were full, it’s just that these kids would bring crap over from their party and when they were done would just drop it where they were and run off. Yes, twice I watched children old enough to know better finish off a product and toss the container over their shoulder.
In the hour we were there, not one parent instructed a child to pick up their garbage nor did they do it themselves. I watched a group of 4 boys jump off the big rock into the sand (about 6 feet) and jam sticks into the sand to show their distance, climb up and jump again. How they managed to do that without breaking a leg or poking an eye out, I don’t know. Again, no parents around advising them of the stupidity of such moves. There were three or four toddlers that would wander by me at different times without an adult in site. One manged to cross the whole park before Mama finally got off her ass and yelled at a bigger kid to go get her.
And Kira was overwhelmed by the hoards of wild sugar-infused kids who all knew each other and kept running her over. When none responded to her attempts at friendship, she ended up playing in a corner of the sandy area by herself. Time to go home.
I’m tempted to go by today and see if possibly they cleaned up before they left last night. I’m guessing no.
And they wonder why some of us don’t want them here. Disgust?
I’m already tired of it
May 5th
You know, this heavy discussion about Arizona and the immigration issue.
Yes, I agree this BILL is wrong, but it’s raising flags where flags should be raised. Maybe now the Feds will do their jobs.
Did they really think just because the U-Haul truck had AZ plates it was more likely a terrorist threat than any other U-Haul truck? U-Haul trucks are crap and break down everywhere. You get what you pay for.Plus, those trucks are national and have plates from all over America – people rent them to move to other places, duh! Cops spending hours checking it out and all the news coverage is a bit of overkill.
The idiots calling for boycotts of Arizona products? Grow the fuck up. First, Arizona Iced Tea isn’t even made here. Calling off conventions only hurts the industries that employ the most immigrant labor. Cleaning people, bus boys, housekeepers, groundskeepers and so on are usually immigrants and whether each one is legal or illegal is anyone’s guess.
The Cubs want to stop coming here for spring training. Take a guess at the percentage of Hispanics employed by Hohokam Stadium and surrounding support businesses. The hotels the teams and fans stay at, the restaurants where they eat, etc.
Boycotting Arizona businesses will mostly hurt the people you are pretending to support.
Stop running your mouth and making quick decisions without doing the research to make sure the stand you make isn’t on a pile of bullshit.
