Posted on 06/08/2016 11:31:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
I've read variations of these posts maybe a hundred times by now:
Confession: these posts may as well come from Mars, they are so foreign to me.
I'm a big believer in personal responsibility.
Years ago, I read an anthropology text called The Functions of Folk Costume in Moravian Slovakia. It was about life in a small village in my mother's homeland. I knew from her stories that in small villages, people police each other. If you cross the line, your neighbors let you know.
The book said that when a woman committed adultery with another woman's husband, the cuckolded wife would chop off the cheater's braid and nail it to the door of the church.
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Win!
The world seems to split up into two crazy camps about this. One that wants to take your kid away because you looked crosswise at him, once, in public. Another that doesn’t give a damn if you stewed him in a home culture of nothing but self centered bullying, bullying, bullying. And then the two fight, and nobody seems to get anywhere.
Sorry, you're wrong. She's the parent of the child and must assume responsibility for that child until it comes of age.
It's hard being a parent.
Whoever told you otherwise was lying. Perhaps you should have checked into this before you decided to have a child. An when you fail to hold up that responsibility, you should bear the consequences. Far too often parents duck the responsibility of their children. That needs to stop, as does passing off the responsibility for any of your actions. The fact is, you were not watching your child and that action caused the death of a very expensive animal. I think you should pay for getting a replacement.
If anything it is an indictment of black ghetto culture, which sprang up and is allowed to exist by leftists who use blacks as a tool to further their agenda.
I’m not sure self-appointing self as normal is any less self serving either.
Maybe the kid was trying to say he’d rather live with the gorilla?
"I absolutely adore you "I'm not judging because I wasn't there" people. You absolve yourself of the responsibility of passing judgement because you somehow believe it is the compassionate or right thing to do, when in reality you are enabling irresponsibility by your lack of courage to make a moral determination using your own powers of reason and ration."
Of course the bible says that such truncated-information judging is characteristic of a fool, but who listens?
Understand that she had several children under her care that day. IMO there is no way any adult can keep up with more than one child at a time in such an environment as a zoo. I hate those harness contraptions that are used to keep kids close but perhaps had she used one we wouldn’t have thousands of hours on TV devoted to this one issue.
Find it interesting that the press has gone from putting dad’s personal and criminal history under a microscope totally to the other end of the spectrum.
“Mainstream” then, rather than “normal”.
I think one of the most serious issues with modern society is the stigma attached to being “judgmental”.
I went to a small memorial observance arranged by the family of a friend who had lost their son. It was a small, graveside affair, maybe 20 people. I had driven about 30 miles in rush hour traffic to be there, and had taken the time to put on a suit, etc.
At the appointed time, everyone was there except for two cousins, and everyone waited. And waited.
They showed up at 20 minutes after the hour with barely a word of apology, and nobody even reprimanded them.
I was feeling quite judgmental, but...it apparently isn’t allowed these days. You might make someone feel uncomfortable by judging them.
‘I think one of the most serious issues with modern society is the stigma attached to being “judgmental”’
Agree completely. I have a younger brother and an older brother. My younger brother frequently shows no common sense. I was talking with my older brother about this and he said ‘well, we can’t judge him’. My response was ‘ why not? maybe if we did, he wouldn’t do such stupid things’. Taking away our ‘discrimination and judgment’ on others for their stupid actions, hasn’t been a good thing for our country or the world. But PC dictates no judgment, so we are in this handbasket, and going down at an alarming rate.
I bought one of those child harnesses for our fourth child. From the ages of one to five she was more than difficult to keep track of. Seriously, we joked that our family motto was,”Has anyone seen Zoe?!?!” She could escape any situation from being tightly buckled in a shopping cart to a locked up house and she would do so silently. When I strapped the harness on she would just lie on the ground. The only way to get anywhere would have been to drag her around. I briefly considered it at the grocery store, but didn’t.
She was the type of kid for whic a harness was invented but I couldn’t use one.
For some people "judging" means condemning and shunning or punishing.
For some people "not judging" means turning away and pretending not to notice.
For others, it means encouraging and praising no matter what.
There are other responses in between these that might have more of a positive effect.
Absolutely. How did we get here?
It hadn’t happened previously.
Always seems to be one child that pushes the envelope a little more than others. Our oldest, a son, was the most compliant child I had ever seen. The second, a daughter, was something else. When she was older she commented that it was so that we could experience the “other side” of parenting.
My daughter would have been a perfect candidate for some kind of a GPS in her shoes.
Where was the father?
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