All parents should love their kids. Lots of say they do. I am they do in their own way. But around here it seems that their kids needs are not at the top of the list.

I count anyone who provides a food on the plate and roof over their heads as a big deal.

The kid I am writing about has a ton of toys. He even went to Disneyland for the first time this year and had a nice B day party.

Like many, the guy is raising his kid on his own. NEVER EASY.

What I object too is that his dad allows him to do what he wants. Including visiting the neighbors unchecked.

Yesterday I saw coming over to our house to play with my kid. Dragging behind him was a long chain.

Now you must know that this kid thinks hurting others is basically funny. I took the chain ~about 4feet long for a dog~ and explain to the kid it was not a toy and that if he wanted to play here I would keep the chain with me while here. If he wanted to play with the chain he had to take it and go home.

He went home.

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When his father was sawing wood for storage shed, not only did he not wear proper safety gear but his kid was wondering around near him.

The kid often wears the same thing for two or more days.

He has little in the way of skills one would learn in school. This is in large part do to the fact his parent has opted to not allow him to attend pre-school or kindergarten. Where we live it is an option.

Out of things the kid received for his birthday there wasn't one book, game or anything that might go in the way of helping his child to grew.

His father is constantly in the computer. He is largely playing Bingo.

And oh how he yells. Part of my can understand. His kid is not the quickest.

He can afford to take him to Disneyland but replace his son eyeglasses or getting shoes that are not flip-flops... this seems difficult.

The kid avoids questions or things that do not allow him to what he wants.

I can not wait until he is forced to go to school. I am sure that it won't take long for him to get the shit beat out of him. He hit a kid that's bigger and it will be hell to pay. Those playgrounds are not children.

I hold out little hope for him as a person. Stupidly and lack of empathy do not make for the recipe for anyone I would want to be around.

I am sure that daddy's lack of interaction and will lead him to beer at an early age. How long will it take that he sneaks his fathers beer, and mimics his father's lack of interest in himself and others?

God bless us all.

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by Anonymous on May 13, 2007 at 12:03 PM

<I>"I am sure that daddy's lack of interaction and will lead him to beer at an early age."</I>

First beer, then before you know it - golf.

<I>"God bless us all."</I>

God help us all.

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by Anonymous on May 17, 2007 at 10:02 AM

I see that we have with us a proud member of the congregation of the First Church of Beer.

Isn't it funny how people who drink are always happy to have others who do the same thing around? This makes the fact that getting drunk often seems like more like a social thing. When it's so much more than that.

Drink up; maybe there is enough beer to fill that hole in your soul.

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by Anonymous on May 17, 2007 at 12:47 PM

<i>"Isn't it funny how people who drink are always happy to have others who do the same thing around? This makes the fact that getting drunk often seems like more like a social thing. When it's so much more than that.

Drink up; maybe there is enough beer to fill that hole in your soul."</I>

I am conjecturing, granted - but your statement is so far from clear, or precise, that it is necessarily conjecture - - you are what used to be (might still be) called a tee-totaler.

Just to be sure you understand - a tee-totaler is someone who does not drink alcoholic beverages. Sometimes this is because of a - what - <i>hypersensitivity</I>, or perhaps <i>accute</I>, sense of <i>religiousity</I>, or perhaps <i>spirituality</i> might be a happier term to you - which is how I construe (again) your point-of-view from the last sentence.

"And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of wine." (Genesis 9:20-21)

There's lots more of this, I could go on a long time -

But wait - - Didn't Jesus repeatedly turn water into wine?

Is it beer - specifically - you don't like?

Is there beer in The Bible? Did Jesus swill beer? Well...

Proverbs 31: (7) Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Some translators and commentators have encountered the Hebrew word "sehar" and believed it to represent spirits (or distilled ethyl alcohol), termed it "strong drink," but this was a mistake. While Aristotle did mention the possible essence contained in some things, as steam is "within" water, it's now thought
it was the late eighth century CE Arab chemist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who first distilled, and this knowledge passed into Europe through Spain shortly afterwards. Others have argued that sehar refers to undiluted wine, but this, too, is in error. Sehar is Hebrew for beer, a beverage apparently imbibed by royalty and commoners alike. I can think of no good reason not to assume that
Jesus could have swilled beer on occasion. Well, unless his mother told him
not to, but it doesn't appear that he listened to her that much anyway... How
many of us do?

Ah, but perhaps you are Mohammedean (not that I think there is anything really specifically wrong or prohibitive about that). Indeed, the Prophet(Blessings And Peace Upon His Name) did proscribe alcohol consumption.

Not personally subscribing to religion in general, I tend to think that broad inhibitions against various forms of human behavior are based upon subjective and personal weaknesses, and those weaknesses are projected onto others.
Not that I am necessarly trying to be provocative, but here's an interesting anecdote - - it is said that the Puritans banned bear-baiting ( a "sport" - not entirely passed - in which a bear was set upon by dogs in a pit dug for the purpose) - NOT because it was cruel to animals - but because some people enjoyed it.

There is another story that Presbyterians banned "standing" fornication on the fear it might lead to dancing....
Oh, I got a million of them.

I conclude that the souls ("holes" or otherwise) of most beer drinkers will be in heaven hours before the devil knows them to be dead.

Be of good cheer, and go in peace.

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by Anonymous on Jun 2, 2007 at 5:28 PM

Isn't this a little heartless? He's only a child. Hoping he gets beat up on the playground is quite cruel. You could make a huge difference is this child's life by just being a friendly adult who cares about him.

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by Anonymous on Aug 11, 2008 at 4:07 PM

Why would I want to deal with them?

You cannot tell the little shit anything. He is the kind of kid who is spoiled and ignored. He is giving things so he will shut up.

Wait until he hurts your kid. My kid and I can do nothing to him other than send him home.

Fuck the little shit.

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