Once again, I did NOT say anything about walking off with the kid!! If it’s so essential to put words into my mouth to prove the point, doesn’t it demonstrate the weakness of the initial assertion?
I’m with you. I can’t work out which bit of it makes least sense, because it all seems completely disconnected from the real world.
Scylla, remember norinew’s kid, in the thread that inspired this one? She was sensible enough to discern boundaries, brave enough to call “time out” and leave the situation, and level-headed enough to tell what had happened.
Is your daughter capable of that? Because I get the impression she’s not, or you think she’s not, since you have to vet everyone who comes near her and every situation she gets into.
Fuckin’ well told.
If you recall, the original discussion in this thread (somewhere waaay back there) involved people in a public space just minding their own business getting the “stinkeye” from parents who, like you, seem to labor under the delusion that anyone within 100 feet of their kids is there for no good purpose. Reading a book, feeding the ducks, or just simply taking in the fresh air–they have as much right to be there as you and your kids. Vigilance is admirable–paranoia is unhealthy–for both parent and child.
And let me ask you this: in a world full of such strife and turmoil, with people doing unspeakable things to themselves and each other, what exactly is wrong with stopping during a nice walk through the park to watch children playing? Maybe we need to be reminded that, in the midst of all the insanity, some semblance of the innocence of an earlier time can be reassuring.
That is, until some paranoid parent calls the cops on you for “staring at their kid” and you are shocked back to the reality that the world really is totally fucked.
I do believe it.
But, you are lying, aren’t you? I didn’t say anything about 100 feet, did I?
I don’t care who reads a book, or feeds any ducks. You don’t seem to have too clear a grasp of reality, or else your reading skills are defective. I can tell you this: I don’t want YOU around any of my kids if your mind seizes upon a simple statement and you go off on these flights of fantasy, as you have done. This does not sound normal to me. No, wait, it does, and that is one reason why I don’t want strangers around my kids.
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I’m sure that every other country delights to have adults glomming onto their children.
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No. I didn’t read that thread.
::Shrug:: Really don’t know what you’re talking about as I didn’t read the thread. My girl’s pretty good and sensible. She’s not a match mentally or physically for an adult.
I am not going to gamble her life to find out if she’s able to handle it
I’m sorry, what can i do to make it up to you? I bit myself for my transgression, I’m serious. Do you want me to post the bite marks? I really have no reading comprehension I’m so sorry, one thousand million times sorry. I really thought you meant to walk out of plain view with to show the kid. I’m really really sorry, I’m crying right now and feel light headed from the hyperventilating. I really, really don’t want you to feel bad. I’m so sorry for taking your words and twisting them I didn’t meant to I was wrong. Can I do anything to make your life better?
I hope you are being facetious and won’t try anything like irl. You could be in for a serious collision with reality.
Yuppers.
You’re forgetting the consensus among the parents backing me up. The sandbox is for little kids. Your an older man insistent on playing in the kids section with little kids that don’t belong to you against the wishes of their guardians.
Your situation is untenable
You couldn’t be more wrong. I’m not speculating, either. Generally speaking the police have the attitude that the kiddie sections of the park are for kiddies and their parents.
If you are neither and somebody complains about you, you are gone. It’s that simple. After a complaint they cannot simply take the chance of letting you stay.
I apologize everyone. I’m on some new medication and one of the potential side effects is really, really violent mood swings. I guess I figured out if I want to keep it or not…
I really am sorry though GorillaMan, I misinterpreted your post, my apologies.
I don’t believe anybody thinks it’s a big deal. Misinterpretations happen all the time.
The biting has me worried, Are you ok? Are you hurt or injured?
If the medication is still making you behave unpredictably, do you think it would be a good idea to seek the help of a friend and not be alone.?
Let us know you’re ok or how we can help.
Accusing another poster of lying–even, perhaps, rhetorically–is strictly prohibited in Great Debates.
Knock it off.
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As to the rest of you: I already told you to knock off the personal comments yesterday, (and I do apologize for having to work today so that I could not have stopped this earlier), so your ignoring that directive pretty much forces me to close this monster. (It is not much of a Great Debate, anyway, so much as an opinion poll gone bad.)
The topic is not off limits to this Forum, I just figure the well has been poisoned in this thread.
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