Baby Makers : Please advise.

I feel sorry for babies.

Not because they cant walk, or ride bikes, or smoke.

But because they have retarded parents.

What parent thought it would be a good idea, to try and get your kid to stop crying by rattling your car keys in the kids face? First of all, its friggin dangerous. One abrupt move and the little guy is down to one eye. Secondly, do you think that your child enjoys this? No. Not even a little bit. Yes, you get 3 seconds of quiet as he stares at the keys wondering why on earth you would do that to him, and if this foreign object is going to harm him in any way. And when he realizes that this giant silver bundle of sharp edges could very well injure him, he starts crying again!

Often you hear parents say "yeah, they're cute until they start talking back". Really, they are only cute because they aren't able to defend themselves from the stupid annoying things that you do to them. Don't be fooled parents - when your 13 year old kid talks back to you, he is only saying the same things he would have said back then if he could.

Seriously. There should be like a baby union. In which one person can willfully speak for all children everywhere, when they're parents choose to be huge dinks in the way they are "entertaining" their child.

Anyway - i apologize to all those people who do not put their child's lives in danger and are relatively good parents.

ON THE OTHER HAND. I cannot stand parents who continue to treat their kids like they are precious gold, and don't let them ruff it out a bit. Don't get me wrong, watching your child to make sure he or she is safe is one thing, but doting after your kid to prevent every scrape and bump is just ridiculous. Just.. give them the keys for Christs' sake.




Also. Tim hortons sold me a day-old tea buscuit today.
Bastards.

Nantucket

ode to the end of summer.
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when i grow up

As children, so many of us were asked the question " What do you want to be when you grow up"? And of course we came up the coolest things we thought we could be at the time. A princess, A hockey player, A 'bull dozer' driver....and so on. We were so young, none of us knew what kind of work was involved to become the people we see everyday like doctors, or police officers or fire fighters. We just thought they were cool and hey, we could do it if we wanted too.
Our parents were usually the ones who would ask that loaded question .... and when we were 3 and 4 the answer we gave them was comical and they enjoyed the fact that we were so oblivious and ambitious at the same time. Then we grew a little older... got into our high school years and the question suddenly had a little more meaning. And when we were asked it, the answer started to stray from what we wanted to be - to what we're going to take in school. But now that we're in school the question has become heavier than it has ever seemed before. Its actually morphing from "What do you want to be when you grow up?" to "Your grown up now what exactly are you doing?"
Some of us still have those same answers as we did when we were young. We're going to be doctors, we're going to be police officers... key phrase " we're going to be". So what about us. The ones who no longer have a clue and can only answer " I don't know". Why are we treated like people who are "wasting time and money" in school. Why cant i just go and learn and figure it out. Why am i rushing into a 3o some odd year career?

Then there are those parents.. who think their child will be the be all and end all in their university career. Oh yes, my kid is so smart he should have no problem taking 8 classes this year and coming home every weekend to work. Ya right. If your kid is so smart, they should be smart enough to tell you that they are 18 years old and they can think for themselves. Let them figure out their boundaries on their own. Don't set them for them before they even get there. I used to like school. I mean ... I still like school. But school has been unfair to me. Its not going to go smoothly for everyone and for those of us who have to overcome certain obstacles, i hope it makes us stronger in the end. I've learned that you cannot look at someone else's performance and say " how are they still in school"? School is different for everyone. Life is different for everyone. But in the end, if you want to be that princess, if you want to be that doctor, or if you just want to learn... you can.

I dont really want to dance with you

We all do things that we don't want to do.

For some of us, its working at our lame summer jobs. Or maybe its doing homework. Or perhaps chores you're parents (who still think they have full rein over you ) tell you to do.

For me, its usually doing something that i'm totally not into but I do it because my friends, or people i'm with, really want too.

To me this is quite a large sacrafice but most of the time, im happy to do it. I find myself conforming to plans that, on any given day, when i'm not with these people, i wouldnt normally do. And lately its not just plans that im conforming too. Its the types of music we listen to when we drive, or the people we are continuously hanging out with. Why can't we try something different? Why do we have to go to a different club every weekend? Why cant we do something I want to do for a change? I can question these things all i want, but i know the answer is because certain people thouroughly enjoy these activies even tho i may not.
Yet I find myself being the only one giving in to others. Why is it that we constantly do these things that you want to do but when there are certain things i want to do, im on my own? I thought comprimise was supposed to go both ways?

I shouldnt have to have a completely different set of friends just do go and do the things that I enjoy. I should be able to go out with all of my friends, and do something that i like doing, weather they like it or not.

Because I do it for you.