Two news stories today caused my brain to stop and gawk like a slapped baby today, both of which contain people who suck in them.
Peace on earth? Not in our subdivision!
It seems that, in a homeowner’s conclave somewhere in Denver, CO, the association that dictates what you can and can’t do with your property has voted that a resident’s Christmas wreath in the shape of a peace sign is offensive and might even be Satanic and are fining her and asking her to take it down.
Now, first of all, if you’re enough of a fucking idiot to buy a house in some sort of uppity enclave where a group of people determine what you can and can’t do with your own fucking property, you have already asked to be bent over, so part of this is the whining twit that signed up for this in the first place. My beef is not with her, however. She’s stupid, but there’s too many people in the world who are dumb for me to waste words on them.
The Person Who Sucks in this case is this jackass Bob Kearns, the president of their precious little association that determines what you can and can’t do with your own things. From the article:
Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but members refused after concluding that it was merely a seasonal symbol that didn’t say anything. Kearns fired all five committee members.
Not only did he order the committee to require the removal, but he fired them because they didn’t agree with him? WOW. What a prick! That’s such a great way to run an association!
Dear Loma Linda Homeowners Association: Please tell Bob Kearns to cordially kiss your ass and kick his bitchy hide all the way to Utah. Bob, you’re the reason people own baseball bats.
Calling a child ‘naughty’ can traumatise them, say experts
This sort of hippie bullshit is why the world is going down the shitchute at an enormous rate, folks. First they declared that we couldn’t spank our children, a method of punishment that had worked for hundreds of years without any repercussions. Then they said that we can’t grade our children, because they might develop bruised esteems due to bad grades. Most places now won’t keep score at sports events because nobody is really a “loser” in life. And now….we can’t call a child, “naughty”?
You must be joking.
This Annette Mountford is suffering a very large case of Dumbassitis, probably rooted in some sort of guilt trip that she’s laid on herself. This twit insists that we are bruising and possibly even permanently damaging our childrens’ self esteems by punishing them!
They should also stop referring to the “naughty step” - a disciplining technique from TV’s Supernanny - in case their child thinks the word refers to them. She said misusing the word can affect the “mental health” of both the child and the subsequently guilt-ridden parent. You are analyzing this WAY too much, and you’re certainly protecting your child from developing into a well-balanced adult. Children, just like adults, have to learn to tell the difference between calling an activity bad and the child bad. They’re not going to learn this unless you give them the chance to figure it out! If your child didn’t and you didn’t help them to see the difference, then you failed as a parent, Annette. Part of your responsibility is teaching your child to be a thinking human being, not a robotic numbskull. Quit being so pandering to your offspring.
Parents: If you are having “guilt” about the punishment that you give to your children, you are NOT GOOD PARENTS. Good parents realize when punishment is necessary and, although it may not be pleasant to deal out, know and realize that their punishment is for the greater good of the child. There should be no “guilt” involved about a punishment. Now, if you failed to educate your child about something you should have and they got into trouble, you may feel guilty about that, and that’s correct — it’s to keep you on your toes. But if you felt the punishment fit the crime, feeling guilt is wrong.
Despite quizzing, Mrs Mountford, who previously worked as a health visitor for 13 years, insisted that children are not naughty in themselves. Cuckoo! Cuckoo! I don’t know what a ‘health visitor’ is, but this attitude is anything but healthy.
Behavior of a child stems from their inner psyche and, ultimately, from the patterns stored within their brain’s neural net. Neural nets form and modify and enhance based on feedback patterns fed back into the net that alter or reinforce the patterns already there, or create new patterns as appropriate. Calling a child “naughty” is NOT incorrect — if they have produced naughty behavior, then it has come from the child, not from the Behavior Genie. Coupled properly with instruction on how to avoid producing naughty behaviors again, along with an appropriate punishment, will rewrite those neural patterns to form non-naughty habits, changing the once-naughty child into a well-behaved one.
Punishment, of course, is not a simple system, and no parent should treat it as such, although many do. It involves not only swift and accurate compensation for an inappropriate action, but good instruction, explanation, and love to support that punishment, review the action, and offer ways to correctly respond in the future. Parents who simply provide whacks to their children are not helping them.
When asked whether she had ever shouted at a child, Mrs Mountford, who has two grown-up daughters, said: “Yes, of course I have, I’m human. But golly you feel awful afterwards. I’m interested in the parents’ mental health. When you do lose it as a parent you feel dreadful and that ruins your day, ruins the child’s day. They have a rotten time at school, you do at work or home.”
Annette — may I call you Annette? — again, if you’re feeling guilty about punishing your kids, you have issues as a parent that you need to address. If, however, you are more interested in the problem of parents taking out the stresses of their day on kids in unwarranted ways, well, then…that’s a whole different ball of wax and you’re only complicating the issue by suddenly saying that parents cannot call a spade a spade and punish their kids in good, healthy ways.
It sounds to me like you are fuzzing the issue too much and are lost in your own research; either that or you’re trying to justify the blowing of thousands of taxpayer’s dollars in a study that does nothing useful at all.
Go to McDonalds, have a chocolate sundae, and go plant some tulips. I guarantee you’ll feel better in the morning. But, in the meantime, YOU SUCK.
No doubt other people earned a big YOU SUCK today, but I can only comment on so many things at once. So, if you’re reading this, I hope you didn’t suck today. If you didn’t, give yourself a gold star for making the world a little bit nicer to live in.
