Open thread, 7-year-old child style

The recent Open thread 80s style was a rather unexpected success so I thought of an new open thread theme where seven year olds can raise the issues important to them.

Not many seven year olds read this blog (I hope not anyway) so I’ll leave it up to you to channel them and raise issues and comments on their behalf. For example do you think Dora the Explorer is part of some Green-Left conspiracy? Do toys influence your decision to demand McHappy Meals, are you finding it difficult to like the new yellow Wiggle, does your dad think Andrew Bolt is a bum head and does Bronwyn Bishop make you want to sleep with the lights on?

Have at it!

When did we start becoming so nosey about how other people raise their kids?

Fit, healthy and subject to public judgement

A story on the front page of the Herald Sun  today shows a 10-year-old girl in a body-building competition who looks fit and normal for her age, but with her muscles tense to show off the results of her exercising

Despite the fact that the girl loves what she is doing and is doing it for fun, is keeping fit and is doing no harm to her body the Herald Sun has sought to ridicule her and demonise her parents with the line that she is somehow being exploited and damaged.

The paper wheeled out the usual suspects to subtly condemn the mother, including media-slut child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg, who says this was sending the wrong message to image-conscious kids.

“What they should be saying to kids is they should be more valued more for what they do than how they look,” said the the rent-a-quote kiddy shrink.

Carr-Gregg, as usual, is full of shit. A sport like body building is a lot about doing. The girl is doing it to look good to judges, not to look better than her peers. It’s not like 10 year olds are being lines up compared on their looks against their will.

I would have thought this teaches children about self respect, nutrition and how to be active – does Carr-Gregg want her to be part of the mythical childhood obesity epidemic instead.

This is no different to junior dance competitions, which my daughters often take part in, where children are judged on technique and appearance. As for the physical demands of body-building on a child, check out the physical demands on kids who give dance and a real shot. According to her mother the girl does not use weights, just exercises, which are probably no more strenuous to the stretch classes that dancers endure.

It’s so unfair for the parents of this girl to be accused of somehow doing the wrong thing by her. This is a normal family who does not deserve to be on the front page of a newspaper and put at risk of public condemnation, by fucktards who follow this kind of bullshit like sheep.

Why can’t the self-rightious lot at the Herald Sun and Dr Carr-Gregg, concentrate on the 100 kids who needs emergency accommodation in Melbourne every night, or those children that are being found dead through neglect in their own homes on a far too regular basis.

And as readers it’s about fucking time we stopped passing judgement on people who are doing no wrong by their kids.

Lollipop people rationalists suck!

In an unbelievable piece of mean-spirited, ham fisted and really stupid bureaucratic posturing, Victoria’s councils and VicRoads made public their plan to replace school crossing supervisers, better known as lollipop people, with flashing lights. Unbeknown to many, lollipop people actually receive a token wage for their troubles, yet some councils and Vicroads thought that this was getting a bit too much. 

I can see how the idea came up. Some bean counter was probably caught in traffic one morning and noticed how the lillipop lady at his local school pushed the button for the traffic lights to turn red and then walked in the middle of the road, flashed her lollipop sign to oncoming traffic and blew her whistle to allow the children briefly in her care to cross carefully.

While any warm blooded human being would praise such people for braving traffic – especially dickhead tradesmen who think a fluro vest and ute makes you immune to having to adhere to a 40km speed limit – this arsehole thought: “Hmm, surely the kids can press the button and we’ll save a few million precious dollars every year,” before wondering why he had trouble farting through his pin-hole of an anus.

Parental guilt trip neglects the real offenders

 

We’ve become such a judgemental society that now the smallest thing blows up to become the biggest issue of the day. Party boy Corey is a case in point, where the reaction and subsequent publicity about a kid whos party got out of hand was way out of proprtion with the actual event.

This week’s fodder for the tabloid press, talback hacks and the swarmy bitch Anna Coren is a mother who dared put her toddler’s mishap at the hands of her pet dog as a boys-will-be-boys thing.

Alicia Cottier has become the most hated mum in Australia since, well since Corey’s mum pissed off to the Gold Coast leaving him to, if you believe the hype, destroy the entire City of Casey.

Why? Because when her two-year-old son Noah tugged at the mastiff-stafforshire cross’s ears and it lashed out and bit him on the face, she refused to have the dog destroyed saying that it as the boy’s fault and refused to have the dog taken away or put down.