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- From: ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Ashley)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Mikey
- Message-ID: <1242@abb-sc.abb-sc.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:27:16 GMT
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- Organization: Kaos Laboratories
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- In article <1992Nov17.225316.3917@u.washington.edu>, mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings) writes...
- >In article <BxvGtv.3BB@encore.com> aaldrich@encore.com (Al Aldrich) writes:
- >>
- >>Please don't blame the child for the parents irresponsibility.
- >>The child IS a wonderful child. Why doesn't this `community' talk
- >>to the mother and demand that she address the obvious problem?
- >> (.........)
-
- > What you propose is lovely but, as has been pointed out with the male
- >issue recently here, what do you do if she doesn't listen. People HAVE
- >told her that she isn't doing the right thing. People have done it in a
- >nice way. People have done it in a pissed way. She's the mother and she
- >knows best, from what I've been told of her response. She has enough pull
- > (.................)
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-
- Parents have this funny blind spot when it comes to their own kids.
- The only way I've ever seen the parents learn is when they are shown an
- annoying example of EXACTLY what they are doing in another person's child.
- Sometimes they even find a way to ignore that too. Well mine isn't that bad
- and other excuses. Here's a good example of parents ignoring reality in
- favor of indulging their infernal infant.
-
- I was in a public park once and saw a child beating on a family
- dog. The father and mother where laying on the grass, dad holding the dog's
- leash, and his child was chasing the dog around, smacking it on the face with
- a toy hammer. The dog was terrified and trying desparately to get away. I
- can't imagine being whacked on the snout with a wooden hammer felt too nice.
- The father and mother where laughing and goading the kid on with "Where's the
- doggie?" and other such baby-talk dreck.
- I walked over and told them that this was cruelty to animals and
- asked if they could see that the dog was being hurt? Their response was that
- their child wouldn't really hurt the dog, besides, he was only a child, so the
- blows couldn't really hurt. By now there was some blood on the Irish Setter's
- nose and s/he was crying and whimpering. I went off and called the humane
- society, silently hoping that the dog would get pissed off and give the child
- a good bite. Better yet, bite dad who was holding the leash and not letting
- him/her get away from that toddling terror.
-
- Just a nice example of how incredibly blind to reality
- kids can make their parents from your friendly neighborhood...
-
- - Ashley
-