tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post9024132268824863518..comments2023-09-15T02:40:58.916-07:00Comments on Move Along. Nothing To See Here.: Looking Out For The Kids.Flintharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17456024642528783549noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-5435456023707432552011-05-16T21:25:39.204-07:002011-05-16T21:25:39.204-07:00Ginny: I don't know why my gmail is rejecting ...Ginny: I don't know why my gmail is rejecting you. I'll go and check on it. <br /><br />And as for the kids you have worked with... yes, I know what you mean. And it fills me with despair and horror. On another forum, I've had one or two of the inevitable criticisms about using "outliers" to create an incorrect statistical picture - but I did so for purposes of shock. Because I think we're by and large all too accustomed to the quotidian horrors to which you refer. <br /><br />Biting out a kid's eyes is news. Stuffing kids with junk food, raising them by television, neglecting them outright -- that's not news any more. That's every day. And that's the stuff I think we might help with some kind of licensing and education and support for parenthood.Flintharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17456024642528783549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-89821507272970863772011-05-16T21:21:12.346-07:002011-05-16T21:21:12.346-07:00Mr Barnes: I'll see your "Like-button&quo...Mr Barnes: I'll see your "Like-button" parents, and raise you a mother administering Botox to her 8-year-old daughter to "help her win beauty pageants".<br /><br />http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/3485305/I-give-my-girl-8-Botox-for-pageant.html<br /><br />Happily, the woman in question has now lost custody of her botoxed daughter. Unfortunately, it's probably too fucking late. The girl has already been convinced she needed botox for her "wrinkles". At eight years of age.Flintharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17456024642528783549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-63513171782386233322011-05-16T21:18:40.906-07:002011-05-16T21:18:40.906-07:00Bondi: I know what you mean, mate. I respond reall...Bondi: I know what you mean, mate. I respond really badly to stories of children being abused. It was never something I handled well, but now that I have kids of my own and that I work with kids in martial arts and at school -- it's one of the very few things that could potentially make me lose my cool and do something serious. I'm a little frightened to discover I still have a hot-button like that.Flintharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17456024642528783549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-60099273074935266712011-05-16T21:16:16.711-07:002011-05-16T21:16:16.711-07:00N-Bob... I tried to offer an intelligent response,...N-Bob... I tried to offer an intelligent response, but Google shat on my comments, so I gave up. It's the next day now, so I'm trying again. Here it is:<br /><br />The questions you raise are about details. And I admit, I have no legal or legislative background. I'd leave all of that for people that do, except that I'd be as active in the related debate as I always am on topics I think are important. My point remains: currently, we're doing nothing, and we're paying an unacceptable price in an already overpopulated world. <br /><br />We regulate drugs. We regulate sex. We regulate computer gaming, for pity's sake. How is it we don't take the slightest interest -- as a society, that is -- in the skills and resources and the mental, physical and emotional state of persons who decide to be parents? <br /><br />How come I have to do a multi-week course complete with written examinations and practical tests and inspection visits just so I can be a "community coach" and teach physical skills to school kids for a few weeks a year -- but nobody said 'boo' when my wife and I took on long-term responsibility for THREE kids?Flintharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17456024642528783549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-19746728234124603292011-05-16T15:07:49.229-07:002011-05-16T15:07:49.229-07:00and while not in the same league as those above th...and while not in the same league as those above there a parents out there who do this to their child.<br /><br />http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/two-idiots-name-their-baby-girl-like-after-the-facebook-button/#more-452449Michael barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08986102144813296339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-24008640713721867662011-05-16T11:39:55.291-07:002011-05-16T11:39:55.291-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.bigskygirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10469981588483120021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-4221666011604924962011-05-16T09:05:11.718-07:002011-05-16T09:05:11.718-07:00Worked with street kids, aka the ones thrown away ...Worked with street kids, aka the ones thrown away with less thought than pop bottles, for 5 years. Saw their living conditions and bruises and deaths. Could not take it anymore. Had to leave. Right after going to one of my student's funerals with her 3 day old baby and her 3 year old in the same casket. She was one of my hopefuls. It nearly destroyed me for life.<br /><br />I have no words for it. It is pure and simple horror. I don't go to horror films. I have seen the real thing.<br /><br />And I didn't have children though I have many who call me mom, Grandma, Godmom, Mommy, Mama...<br /><br />I am mother of the neighborhood and every kid I can find who needs me.<br /><br />And it's good. Sometimes I want to go shoot people for what they do to innocents, including elderly who are also defenseless in beds without proper care, and yes, abused.<br /><br />On that happy note, Dirk, your gmail is shooting back to me. Change it again?<br /><br />Love you and your kids.<br />Ginbigskygirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10469981588483120021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-82695884789345458182011-05-16T03:23:01.104-07:002011-05-16T03:23:01.104-07:00Can't disagree with you either FH. But those ...Can't disagree with you either FH. But those stories, and ones like them...I just can't read them, and if it's on the TV news I will avoid them whenever possible. I frankly find those stories too distressing. I've dealt with some pretty horrific stuff in the past when doing what could broadly be termed 'emergency services work', but that all involved adults thankfully...anything with kids involved creeps me out. And that only got worse when I became a parent myself. <br /><br />And yes, a licence to be a parent is an idea with merit.Bondiboy66https://www.blogger.com/profile/03526870939619033169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-62647094209162876462011-05-15T15:39:40.751-07:002011-05-15T15:39:40.751-07:00As an aside, we know what a glass jaw is, if one i...As an aside, we know what a glass jaw is, if one is more than usually susceptable to punch in the Solar Plexus, would that be described as solar plexi glass?NowhereBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519025059441170438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-32630950436544076462011-05-15T15:38:07.731-07:002011-05-15T15:38:07.731-07:00I struggle to disagree, But. *stepping to one side...I struggle to disagree, But. *stepping to one side to minimise the expectant punch to the solar plexi*<br />When a government passes a law "Thou Shalt / Shalt Not do X, Y &/or Z" it must also decree a consequence or penalty." EG drive @ < 15 kph over speed limit $150 & 2 points, >15 but <30kph over the speed limit...<br />My first question: what is your consequence for procreating without authority? A fine won't help the kid be brought up in a loving & literate family, nor will banging the parent up in goal. Compulsory courses are notoriously crap. Eg the court mandated "safe driving" & "drugs are bad Mkay" courses.<br />Q2; Who is culpable? the mother? the father (if known?) both?<br />Q3; Is residence in Pitsworth / Gympie exculpatory?NowhereBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519025059441170438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-49999363577783858482011-05-15T14:22:44.381-07:002011-05-15T14:22:44.381-07:00WTF I mean HainesWTF I mean HainesMichael barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08986102144813296339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-48108588907198746342011-05-15T14:22:07.144-07:002011-05-15T14:22:07.144-07:00off to read some Paul Hsinrdoff to read some Paul HsinrdMichael barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08986102144813296339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-72732184419377361522011-05-15T07:01:56.388-07:002011-05-15T07:01:56.388-07:00That first incident still gives me the absolute ho...That first incident still gives me the absolute horrors. There are people in Australian spec fiction who ask why I don't write more horror. I use that little incident to illustrate the prime reason: reality itself is more horrific than so-called "horror" writing, by and large. (Paul Haines excepted. You want to read bad-ass, disturbing, elegant stuff that is truly horrific? Haines is the man.)<br /><br />Most "horror" is just dark fantasy, or even gore-porn. Real horror is human.Flintharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17456024642528783549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2485469691062620401.post-48026414200208209082011-05-15T01:13:53.868-07:002011-05-15T01:13:53.868-07:00Nothing you saying I disagree with in the above pi...Nothing you saying I disagree with in the above piece, except this phrase "When you decide to become a parent, you agree to put your whole world to one side in favour of someone else" and there's the rub. <br /><br />Some people who have children don't - and there in lies the fault. <br /><br />The first incident you quote was used to remarkable narrative effect in the excellent Kirkman comix 'the walking dead' volume 12 'Life among them'. The character was illustrating how there was evil in the world long before the undead variety appeared. But its the way he describes how the story haunted him, "I can't stop myself from filling in the blanks of the story..The details not told but implied".<br /><br />anyway its a power piece in an outstanding seriesMichael barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08986102144813296339noreply@blogger.com