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Where in the hell do nutty, spineless parents like these come from?
"....... Some kids may not be able to experience this time-honored tradition, because a group of parents in a neighborhood in Brooklyn wants to ban the ice cream man from their park......"
"....One mother wrote, "I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground just so someone can make a living."
Sorry, but this is democracy in action. If those parents can generate enough support to effect a change in the city or state statutes, that's their right as free citizens to do so.
On the other hand, this is the kind of stuff you'd better be prepared for when you buy into the obesity "crisis" hogwash.
Obviously that parent has problems with discipline and their own children.
Say "No" and that's the end of it. This is their problem that their kid whines and fights with them..practice some discipline with your kid.
BS - the problem is the parents saying NO to themselves. A city playground without a Ice Cream Vendor on a hot summer day is an over heated wasteland full of noisy childern and screaming overheated frustrated parents. IMHO the ICV shoud also sell cold beer.
Where in the hell do nutty, spineless parents like these come from?
"....... Some kids may not be able to experience this time-honored tradition, because a group of parents in a neighborhood in Brooklyn wants to ban the ice cream man from their park......"
"....One mother wrote, "I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground just so someone can make a living."
Poor parenting. If you want to ban ice cream from your kid, simply say no. you are suppose to be the adult start acting like it. Stop blaming the ice cream man for your inability to control your child.
This is why I have no interest in having children. At the rate that the ninnies of all political stripes are going it's going to be no fun being a child and I do not want to bring someone into the over-regulated, uptight world where everyone is scared of their own shadow that we are likely headed.
"You know when I was kid, we had a thing called 'summer vacation' that lasted up to three months of time off of school. We would often use that time to play video games (which didn't have a timer and you could play for more than two consecutive hours) or play outside (which has gone out of fashion due to concerns about exposure to bacteria and elevated sun cancer risk) or hang out (which is know classified as loitering and vagrancy). We would sometimes buy something called 'ice cream' from vans (vans have since been outlawed due to their association with sexual assaults) that would play little songs as they rode through the neighborhood. The anti-obesity people compared ice cream vans to the Pied Piper who played a tune on his flute which ended leading children to the river and drowning them and it is now a Class B felony to sell ice cream. What you've never heard of that part of the story? Oh, I forgot. School boards requested that the ending of story be toned down as it might have the potential to traumatize children. You think that stupid? That's my boy! But please keep your opinion to yourself. Things like disagreeing with the status quo is seen as dangerous and a sign of deviancy. Oh, and don't tell anyone I said that. I am enough Watch Lists as it is. How did it get this way? Well, there were two opposing political groups that had disproportionate representation in government. One was the nanny statists who wanted to control everything you do for your own good. The other were authoritarian conservatives (who were usually ultra-religious as well) who wanted to control everything you do in the name of social order and national security. They put their differences aside and found one thing they could both agree with: The need to control what everyone does and the rest is history. Well, it's already 20:00 which is the government mandated bedtime for someone your age, so take your Ritalin and go to bed."
And these are the kids in school that teachers have to deal with.
Just imagine 10 out of 20 kids behaving like this when the teacher asks them to do something.
Over 80% of class time is spent on "behavior management" folks.
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