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Originally Posted by analog
First, i'm not being hostile. You're reading a charged piece and assigning hostlity to it because it disagrees with your opinions. If you happened to agree with me, you'd see my lament for better parenting in this country, not yelling. Second, I am hardly the only person crying foul on the rights of the person in question.
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If I may be so bold (and kinda hijack my own thread here), I am going to make some conjectures as to why you come off as 'hostile':
What an asinine series of rhetorical questions...
No, they aren't, they're all part and parcel of tasks designed to be safer than you would be otherwise.
If a predator grabs a dumb and happy kid, where the fuck was the parent? If a smart and cautious kid is grabbed, then either the parent has made a bad judgment on the readiness of the child to be let alone to the bus stop, or you've got a situation where the child was literally grabbed up whole and taken off, not lured away or coerced- and that's an example of an act so brazen that it could have happened anywhere, and at any time; thus making it a pointless issue to hawk over those who should be ok by themselves. Hell, anyone can get kidnapped, it happens all the time.
Yes it does and my mother, who was abducted in 1933, was done so out of her stroller as her mom sat inside visiting a friend-it was 1933-people left their kids outside the door. Of course, most don't do that now. We have fences and deadbolts on our doors and leashes for our toddlers. I have seen kids about first grade age walking alone to school across our busy 3 lane main road and think 'How stupid can parents be?' So, yes they're just as out and about as the bad guys. The problem here is, your statements seem to say they're out there even more.(Perhaps, not saying 'where the fuck...' might help?)
I understand people have jobs, people are busy and whatnot- but a job is not an excuse to not put the safety of your children FIRST. Personally, I know of no parent who would.
Tell me, dear parents, what exactly is more important than the safety of your children- which you all say you cherish so dearly- that you cannot provide them the safety of your company? Hmm? Because that's what the whole thread is about. It's a simple question, so let's see the song and dance that ensues.
This, as worded, is offensive because it's finger-pointing at those of us who are in this discussion.
I don't take offense; I've been extremely protective and involved with my kids and I have no doubt MM is as is almost everybody I've come across here and in real life. It's
how you word your statements; I understand the gist behind them, but they're confrontational.
/end threadjack